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"Mr President, the Lisbon strategy’s aim in 2000 was to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. As we know, it failed. And now, looking at this proposal for a work programme in the EU, it will continue to be a failure. According to Eurostat, industrial output in the EU fell by 19% during the economic crisis, in comparison to 17% in the US. Downturn in industrial output in the eurozone has been worse than the EU 27 as a whole, suggesting that the euro is a burden to recovery. Even the EU’s own figures show that more job growth is created outside the eurozone than in, and yet unelected President Barroso says the UK is obliged to join the euro. No thank you very much.
The UK needs to divorce itself from this coven of failure and despair, and to instigate a free trade agreement with Europe and the world. Let us be gone and plague you no more. For the sake of my country, be gone with your damaging regulations. Be gone with your harmful harmonisation. Be gone with your destructive laws. Be gone with your affronts to our democracy. Be gone with your begging bowls. Plague us no more."@en1
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