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"Mr President, first of all can I say that we are all in here, it seems to me, doing specialist pleading, including me, and dressing it up as if it were some sort of disinterest.
Look, the reality is that we are being judges in our own cause, and that is wrong in principle. Let me ask this question: why do we need 751 seats? The Treaty says that is the maximum amount. If we were being fair about this and said that we would take one off everybody, we would reduce by 27. Then, those with 90 seats would go down by one ninetieth, we would go down by a twelfth. I could accept that, but we have gone down from 15 to 13 to 12, now to 11. That is the proposal when our population is soaring.
This is not right and I do not believe that the principle of digressive proportionality has been determined. This may well be challenged in the courts. The geese think it is a great idea because they are not losing. The ganders do not think it is a great idea because …"@en1
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