Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-04-05-Speech-2-138-000"
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"en.20110405.13.2-138-000"2
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"Mr President, I do not know whether you recall the popular television series in our own country
the conceit of which was that the leading character, a police officer, is catapulted back, as it seems, to the early 1970s.
I felt rather as he did as I read through the voting list today. Here is the EU coming out with policies on women in agriculture, export credits for favoured companies, special grants to Unilever in the Czech Republic and to machine tool manufacturers in Poland.
The 1970s was a dire period for Europe as a whole and for the United Kingdom in particular: a time of stagflation, of unemployment, of national bankruptcy. But these things did not happen because of some tectonic forces beyond our control. They happened as a result of wrong-headed policy, in particular the idea that governments could pick winners, and that governments should control the economy and make things happen through reallocating resources.
The 27 Member States have moved on, but the European Union has not. We are still in this world of taking money from our taxpayers and giving them to favoured client groups.
Why? Because if we did not do that, what would the European Union be for? As Upton Sinclair once observed, it is very difficult to make a man see something when his job depends upon not seeing it."@en1
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"Life on Mars"1
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