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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-11-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Time to move up a gear Creating a Europe of entrepreneurship and growth2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061130.6.4-058"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-11-30-Speech-4-0592
lpv:speaker	lp:Ashley Mote2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I wonder how many people in this Chamber have had an idea for a new business, raised the money themselves at their own risk and successfully run that business for 20 more years and generated jobs and wealth. I see that not a hand goes up, and yet here we have a Commission talking about authorising entrepreneurs and about level playing fields – which is the most fundamental contradiction of the word ‘entrepreneur’ you could possibly imagine. The whole point about entrepreneurship is creating something that nobody has ever thought of before. There sits the Commissioner talking about criminalising the use of imperial measurements on exports from the UK after 2009. As a consequence of that, the manufacturers of tyres, bicycles, clothing, medical equipment, dairy products, frozen foods, specialist papers, domestic appliances, hand tools, computer components and oil and gas components will all suffer, every single one of them. One of them in my constituency will be faced with going out of business because there is no way he will be able to sell his components to the oil and gas industry in the United States. They are not going to pull their drill up thousands of feet just to check a measurement – no way! He will either become a criminal to stay in business or he will go out of business. Years ago I walked into the office of one of the biggest industrialists in the United States and behind him was a notice that said: ‘If you are not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, so get out of the way!’ That is a message I commend to this House."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Independent (2005-02-02--2009-07-13)3 member; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-06-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-01-14)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Ashley Mote (NI ). –"1

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