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"Mr President, the European Council is at least seeking to exercise some budgetary restraint.
Meantime, we in this House call upon our voters for austerity, while we ourselves practice extravagance. Two hundred million euros a year to commute to Strasbourg; EUR 150 million for Mr Hans-Gert Pöttering’s House of European History, or is it perhaps the House of European Horrors? And now we read that we are spending EUR 6 million on a pre-election propaganda campaign!
Mr President, I have seen the commercial. We say that we are ready to listen to the people, so let me tell you what my four million constituents are telling me in the British East Midlands. They are saying they have had enough of the European Union; they are sick to death of paying for it; they are sick to death of its petty rules and interference; they think it does them more harm than good. They believe they would be better off out.
Colleagues, as Oliver Cromwell famously remarked, ‘You have sat here too long for any good you may have been doing. For God’s sake, go!’"@en1
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