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"en.20141217.57.3-417-000"2
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"Mr President, I voted against the Palestinian state as recognising a Palestinian state is not within the competence of this Parliament.
On 3 October the Commission wrote to my UKIP colleague, James Carver MEP, to explain that the EU cannot recognise Somaliland, or any other state, and that this was the privilege of the nation states of the European Union. Therefore this so-called recognition of Palestine is illegal and the Commission has admitted it in writing. Mr President, you should have ruled against it but you did not.
Recognition of Palestine, or otherwise, should be left to nation states and the United Nations. No one in Great Britain voted for a European state; we voted only for a trading bloc. This House has got well above itself. If Pontius Pilate could not solve the problem in the Middle East with the threat of the galleys and crucifixion, how does this pathetic parliament think it can do better? It would be best left trying to sort out the deficit and the collapsing euro and not bothering with things it has no ability to deal with."@en1
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