Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-05-06-Speech-3-462"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-05-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Parliament's new role and responsibilities in implementing the Lisbon Treaty - Institutional balance of the European Union - Relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon - Financial aspects of the Lisbon Treaty - Implementation of the citizens' initiative (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090506.41.3-462"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-05-06-Speech-3-4632
lpv:speaker	lp:Daniel Hannan2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, these past 16 months I have spoken 77 times in this Chamber and I have ended every speech with a call for the Lisbon Treaty to be put to the people: . I have done so in homage to Cato the Elder, who ended every speech famously with a call for Carthage to be destroyed. Sometimes it has been a bit of an effort for me to contrive that ending from a different subject, but not this evening. It is extraordinary to have listened to some of the contributions. Not all. There have been some honourable and democratic pro-Europeans in this Chamber, but some of the speeches have been filled with such disdain, such arrogance, such contempt for public opinion that, now that the EU and indeed the Member States are beginning to learn about the political value of YouTube, you could do no better than to put the entirety of this debate on YouTube as a party election broadcast for the various ‘no’ campaigns. I have been reminded of those eerie words of Bertolt Brecht: ‘would it not be easier in that case to dissolve the people and elect another in their place’? And all the speakers keep on saying that the parliaments have ratified. They are just advertising the rift that exists between the political class and the people in every Member State. Cato the Elder was mocked and shouted down and the other senators used to mimic his voice. Do you know what? In the end they did what he said."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2008-02-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Afghanistan (2008-02-18--2009-07-13)3 member; PECH (2008-02-18--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFCO (2008-04-03--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Daniel Hannan (NI ). -"1 "Pactio Olisipio censenda est"1
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