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"Mr President, these people have got a nerve and I am amazed they have the temerity to turn up here. They have not had their accounts signed off for the last ten years and they want more money to waste, to neglect, to give in fraud and corruption. Had they been running a small company in my country, they would not only have been prosecuted, they would probably have been jailed!
Why should I vote for this? Tell me! Why should any of my constituents? Why should any of my countrymen? In my country, there are 2.6 million pensioners living in poverty on means-tested benefits; there are 3.6 million children below the poverty level; there are 3.9 million childless adults living in poverty; and we are a rich country! We are the fourth-largest economy in the world.
Why are so many of my constituents living in poverty? Because you lot get the money! Because 19 billion pounds of it goes to the inefficient common agricultural policy to support inefficient French, Italian and Greek farmers. Why should my constituents suffer for their fraud, their corruption, and their inefficiency? They should not. Just taking back our money from the common agricultural policy would increase pensions by 30 pounds a week. Were my constituents asked to give the money to France, Italy and Greece? No! Were they consulted? No! Were they given a vote? No! And would they have voted for it had they been? No, they would not; and neither will I.
You can put your gavel down now, Mr President, because I have finished on time."@en1
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