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"Mr President, this report claims that the Commission has a political responsibility to support ratification of the Constitution. However, it also calls for Jesuitical schools propaganda and using British taxpayers’ money to support the ratification process.
Mrs Wallström told this Chamber on Tuesday evening that people will get what she chose to call ‘information’ about the Constitution, but I doubt it will point out, as eminent constitutional lawyers already have, that the Constitution totally reverses the relationship between the EU and the Member States. Whenever before did a sovereign nation permit outsiders to write and impose a new constitution on them, except after defeat in war? Nor, I doubt, will the British be reminded that, in our country, the State draws power from, and answers to, the people. In the European Union, the State now seeks to exist in its own right and have the people answer to it. Nor will it remind the UK that our rights and freedoms are our birthright. They are not in the gift, or at the discretion, of a passing parade of political nonentities.
The proposed Constitution has done us a great service: it has crystallised the threat. We are beyond discussing legislation, and it is time you recognised that you are seeking to become masters in someone else’s house, and that is intolerable."@en1
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