Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-19-Speech-4-160"
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"Mr President, having listened to the debate yesterday on this subject, I decided I had to say something about the bizarre concept of democracy that some Members in this place and the Commission have.
I heard it said that in the referenda so far, more people have voted ‘yes’ than ‘no’ across all countries and that therefore we should be going ahead with this wonderful Constitution.
As a group of my very wise constituents from Northampton and Daventry said to me during the general election in the UK last year, in England my party – the Conservatives – polled more votes than the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. So, maybe, using this wonderful Eurocrat vision of democracy, we should be the ones in power.
Democracy is about following the democratic wishes of the people and ensuring individuals have the power to choose the direction in which they would like their local council, Parliament or Europe to go. It is not about stripping power from people, ignoring their views and giving it to a political class that believes it knows best. That is why I voted against this report."@en1
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