Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-10-25-Speech-3-033"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Results of the informal summit of heads of state and government (Lahti, 20 October 2006) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061025.4.3-033"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-10-25-Speech-3-0342
lpv:speaker	lp:Godfrey Bloom2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, it is rather difficult for me to know where to begin on this. Energy is the lifeblood of any nation state and, of course, I am sent here to represent a nation state. I think it is very difficult for the people of the United Kingdom to accept that their energy policy should be decided basically by foreigners. It is within living memory that we have had to fight the battle of the Atlantic and we have had to live on a knife-edge for freedom because continental countries seem to find it impossible to live together. The thought, the idea or the concept that United Kingdom energy could possibly be controlled by some sort of arrangement with a gangster like Putin is absolutely ludicrous! It is absolute madness to expect anything from a piece of paper signed by Putin, any more than we would from one signed by Adolf Hitler. The man is a gangster. If you are expecting the people of the United Kingdom to make any sort of arrangement for their lifeblood, the very lifeblood of the nation state, and to base it on people who have no fundamental interest in the wellbeing of the United Kingdom, I can tell you that it will not happen. We also have to start speaking the truth. There seems to be some sort of abstract concept here of renewable energy. It is a scientific fact that most of our renewable energy technology does not work. Wind farms are absurd. Any scientist independently retained will tell you that it is complete and total nonsense to expect the United Kingdom to produce the sort of energy levels that the European Union seems to require – which is 20% from a renewable source – by means of wind farms. We have to start telling people the truth. We do not yet have the technology for renewable energy. Let us be honest about it, but then honesty, of course, is something that we avoid in this Chamber!"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; IMCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; UK Independence Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-06-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Godfrey Bloom,"1 "on behalf of the IND/DEM Group"1

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