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Mr President, these questions show the European social model in flashing lights. However, the European social model is a mishmash that pleases no one: a bit of free market here and a bit of welfare state there, mixed with a little green posturing. The EU dictates that one size fits all and, judging by the identical wording of these group questions, one size does appear to fit all. However, in the Independence and Democracy Group, we realise that one size will never fit all.
I am free to say that my party, UKIP, can never support the Lisbon Strategy, because it is the failed strategy of a Commission that has no legal right to dictate economic policy to my country. It is for this reason that the EU can never impose a sustainable development strategy on Britain.
There is, however, a PPE-DE one-sizing problem. Last September, David Cameron was quoted in the
as ‘fighting to end the EU’s damaging social role’ and leaving it to focus on ‘making the single market work properly’. Yet we now have a Tory MEP, Mr Bowis, asking how the EU will enhance its social role in economic policy. No wonder Mr Cameron’s pledge to leave the PPE-DE Group has become such a huge joke. Or, as I always say, ‘EU must be joking’."@en1
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