Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-18-Speech-3-265"
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"en.20060118.20.3-265"2
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"Mr President, this is not a Voggenhuber-Duff report, it is just a duff report. The question is, is the Constitution dead or is it just sleeping? If the answer to all this had been ‘yes’, there can be no doubt that the Commissioners would have had no difficulty in explaining what ‘yes’ meant. It is just us poor peasants who happen to believe in ‘no’ who now need to have it explained to us what ‘no’ means.
‘No’ in this case means sheer arrogance on the part of the Commission in presuming to go ahead with this project, when 70% of people in Austria do not want it to go ahead; when two-thirds of the population of Great Britain do not see any benefit in future membership of this sham Parliament; when the people of France have voted ‘no’; and when the people of Holland have voted ‘no’.
What part of ‘no’ does the Commission not understand? ‘No’ means that large proportions of the population of Europe do not want to continue with this pretence. We thought we were joining a common market and it has grown and grown and grown like Topsy until this final report, which is pushing us towards full political union. Well, it will all fall apart, without any doubt, because that is not what people thought they were voting for. I am glad that UKIP will not fail, because nothing can stop an idea whose time has come, and that means national freedom."@en1
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