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"Mr President, nothing could show Mr Barroso's contempt for this Parliament more than the fact that he could only attend this debate for a few minutes before disappearing. On the subject of Ukraine, after the way in which he pushed through the election of his criminals and Commissioners, let us stop pretending that we can in any way lecture Ukraine on democracy.
With regard to Turkey, we will not be supporting its membership application, just as we did not in the last Parliament, on the grounds of both cost and likely migration patterns. Had anybody in authority been here, I would have asked for confirmation that the cost could be in the order of GBP 19 billion or EUR 28 million. This means that Turkey is costing us as much as the ten countries that acceded to this Union this year.
Could we please know what the cost will be, because for the first time you are hearing from a nation that is actually paying for it. Although the Labour Party in Britain wants to put GBP 5 billion towards it, the Conservative Party believes that GBP 5 billion is a good price to pay and believes you can still have tax cuts. Presumably it also thinks that pigs can fly. Can we actually have confirmation of the cost of 19 billion? Also, will some EUR 700 million be spent on around 60 diverse training projects in Turkey? Is that the true cost, or is there a more up-to-date figure?
We know that Turkey's population growth rate remains phenomenal and that it has serious economic problems, including 70 per cent inflation. Seventy per cent inflation during the passage of the Maastricht Treaty would have caused some raising of eyebrows, but it is just a political project here, is it not? Especially for those who do not pay. We also know that human rights concerns are widespread.
On that basis I would say, on behalf of the UK Independence Party, that we will offer Turkey friendship and free trade, but we will not offer the country political union – especially with the corruption and fraud that are endemic in this place."@en1
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