Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-27-Speech-3-048"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-06-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council meeting of 21-22 June 2007 Activity report of the German Presidency (continuation of debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070627.6.3-048"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-06-27-Speech-3-0492
lpv:speaker	lp:Jim Allister2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, you have described the new Treaty as retaining the substance of the Constitution. Chancellor Merkel agreed with that today. Commissioner Wallström said that it was essentially the same proposal as the old Constitution, and governments across Europe have described it as 99% the same. You and they, Mr President, are right! Yet there is one leader – correction, erstwhile leader, Tony Blair – who pretends it is something totally different. Why? So that he can con the people of the United Kingdom out of the referendum he promised them because he knows he cannot win it. The shameless dissembling of the British Government, however, will not deceive the British people, because we know that when a Treaty looks like a constitution, when it talks like a constitution, and when it would walk us like a constitution into a stronger stranglehold of control from Brussels, then it a constitution, howsoever you might deceptively describe it. That is why the people of the United Kingdom still demand a referendum, and anything less would be a cheat."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Independent (2007-03-28--2007-12-17)3 substitute; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AFCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Jim Allister (NI ). –"1 "is"1

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