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"Mr President, every vote we have passed in the last couple of days has tended to increase spending on various euro-schemes and boondoggles. This modest proposal slightly to reduce the amount of travel between the two seats of this Parliament was thrown out by two to one.
Let me remind colleagues of one of the lines in the US Declaration of Independence. The American patriots laid as a grievance against George III the fact that he had called legislatures to meet in ‘places unusual, uncomfortable and distant’. That was seen as a cause for separation, as I suspect a lot of our constituents and people in different countries will see this extraordinary waste, this duplication of this monthly peregrination.
I agree with Syed Kamall. I would be very happy to meet in Strasbourg at every single session and cut out Brussels. But what is absolutely unjustifiable, at a time of austerity, is to be pouring away hundreds of millions of euros on the trip in between.
After the vote my colleague sitting next to me on this side said very loudly in French, ‘the English have arrived late and now they want to change things’. There were several responses that sprang to my mind, but I instead confined myself to saying to him politely that I do not think we will be staying long."@en1
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