Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-04-22-Speech-3-156"

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lpv:speaker	lp:David Sumberg2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, you might think that, because I am leaving this Parliament in July, I should have no views at all on the programme for Parliament in 2010. But I would be failing those who sent me here for the last 10 years if I did not use this opportunity as a protest against holding this Parliament in Strasbourg at all. It is a scandalous waste of taxpayers’ resources. There is no reason for it: there is an adequate Parliament building in Brussels. When I mention this to people in the United Kingdom – the expense and the trouble that everyone goes to to come here – they are absolutely astounded, particularly in a time of economic stringency, that we should pursue the habit. The time has come to end the Strasbourg farce, to ensure Parliament operates only in Brussels and make a real contribution to saving public money for better reasons to spend it on."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"David Sumberg (PPE-DE ). -"1
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