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"Yesterday, when I spoke out against this report in the Chamber, I was barracked and jeered by Europhiles because of my opposition to the recommendation to place the EU flag on sportsmen’s uniforms. I was reminded via a blue-card question that the recommendation was purely voluntary. I replied that while it may be voluntary, there should be no such reference to the EU flag in sport, be it voluntary or otherwise. I find it increasingly difficult to persuade my constituents of the benefits of a single market when the EU time and time again takes every opportunity to both depart from the original objectives of a community of trading nations and also to impose a federal EU identity on its unwitting and unwilling citizens. Natasha Kuchinskaya, one of the first Soviet gymnasts to take part in the Olympics, described the USSR’s attitude to sport as follows: ‘Sport was considered the prestige of the government. If sport was strong, government was strong’. I am all for a strong trading bloc which creates growth and jobs, but we must resist the EU becoming a manipulative, propagandist superstate."@en1
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