Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-27-Speech-4-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection of the financial interests of the Community and the European Prosecutor2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030327.2.4-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-27-Speech-4-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Jeffrey Titford2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, there cannot be anyone in the House who is not aware of the most important rule in politics: when you are in a hole, stop digging. There is also the joke about the tourist who, lost in depths of Ireland, asked a local how to get to Tipperary and he was told ‘I would not start from here’. Yet, lost at the bottom of the hole, starts Mrs Theato, who declares in her explanatory statement that ‘it has long been acknowledged that the Communities' financial interests require special protection under criminal law’. I agree, but if there were no Community funds, there would be no Community financial interests and, therefore, no need for their protection. That is where I am coming from. It has never made sense to hand over money to an organisation to spend in a manner that has evaded reform and which cannot be accounted for. That is the 'hole'. The answer is to stop digging. Stop giving the Community money. As for the creation of a European Prosecutor: that might be your desired destination, but my advice is that if I were you, I would not start from here. The essentially corrupt and uncontrolled system is the problem. Attack the cause, not the system."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; UK Independence Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Titford (EDD )."1

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