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Mr President, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! What a sad, inward-looking, almost ostrich-like speech that was from Commissioner Wallström. I can only conclude that Plan D stands for ‘delusional’. You really ought to get out more, because it seems to me that you are surrounded by Commissioners, officials, sycophants and parliamentarians here, who clearly do not represent the view of at least half the citizens of Europe. Mr Barroso himself is no better, because when he is not working in the Commission he is off on luxury yachts, holidaying with the super-rich.
I think perhaps I have a remedy for you. I should like to invite you, Commissioner Wallström, to come to my local pub one Sunday lunchtime and meet some real people. I can do even better than that: I could invite you to the Oval to watch a test match. Come and watch some cricket and, again, meet some real people! If you do not have time for any of that, you could read your own Eurobarometer poll, which shows that less than half the citizens of Europe now think that the European Union is doing a good job. You are ignoring all these things; in fact, you are developing a bunker mentality, and perhaps that is a good thing, because at least it shows that the end is in sight!
An organisation with any sense of honour would have respected the French and Dutch referendum results and there would have been a complete halt to further integration. Instead, you have all conspired against the French and Dutch people; you have conspired against your own rules, when you said here that it would have to be unanimous, and you are pressing on with this crazy project. The gap between the political classes and the real peoples of Europe is getting wider by the day. Shame on all of you!"@en1
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