Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-05-09-Speech-1-075-000"
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"en.20160509.15.1-075-000"2
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"Mr President, it is a pleasure to be speaking here on a Monday night and to have a minute and a half to discuss cohesion policy. I find it interesting that an MEP from the West Midlands of the United Kingdom is here talking about mountainous regions. We do not have very many mountains in my part of the UK, which is Wolverhampton and Dudley. We have a few canals, but we do not have mountains. What we do have is mountains of debt; what we do have are peaks of demand for people to go to doctors’ surgeries; and what we do have are valleys of despair of people in our region who cannot get into work, who cannot get to see a doctor and who cannot get their kids into the right school. We have all of these things, and we can thank the EU and its cohesion policy for much of it, because the reasons why we cannot have these things is because our industry has been destroyed – we were the home of the industrial revolution – and we are subjected to mass, uncontrolled immigration into our area, which means we do not have the places for people to go into the schools or the houses or the hospitals. So really, the only mountain that the people in the West Midlands really want to talk about is ‘Mount Freedom’. I want them to ascend to the pinnacle of ‘Mount Freedom’ on our referendum day and have a look at the view, when we can look at all of you across the Channel and say ‘Hi guys, the view is lovely, but we love it at the top, and we love it being free.’"@en1
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