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"Mr President, this is not the first time that I have heard the President of the Commission and Heads of State come to this Chamber after a summit in the ancient city of Lisbon, proclaiming the whole thing to be a fantastic success and an example of how successful the European Union is. Yes, you remember, Mr Barroso, don’t you? The Lisbon Agenda. Here I was, seven years ago, being told that, because of that weekend meeting in Lisbon, we were about to become the most high-technology economy in the world with full employment and high growth rates. Well, as we know, we are 75% of the way through and the thing has crashed in ruins.
I would not, if I were you, be too complacent about the summit you had in Lisbon last week either because, for once, the national parliaments will have their say. This, of course, is unusual because, generally, national parliaments do not have much to do any more, as the EU Institutions have usurped them. However, the national parliaments will have their say and there is a real chance that we will get more referendums than just in Ireland.
Of course that is the one thing that you people do not want, isn’t it? You loathe democracy so much now that you actually call it populism. You treated the French and Dutch referendums with contempt and you refused to take no for an answer. You are the Euronationalists, dangerous people who will stop at nothing.
What that summit in Lisbon represented was a giant deceit and an attempt to impose upon the peoples of Europe a constitution just by dropping that word and repackaging it, when it actually has all the same proposals. It is absolutely disgraceful that you are doing this, but I have hope and faith that in Westminster, the Mother of Parliaments for once will do her job and the British people will get a referendum.
We have heard enough from the political classes of Europe. It is time that in Britain and in many other countries of Europe we heard what the people have to say. You cannot push on with this project without the support of the people. Let the people speak."@en1
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