Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-18-Speech-3-157"
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"Mr President, I voted in favour of the Morgan report. I thought there were some very important elements there. We obviously need a far more competitive energy industry in Europe to ensure that everyone across Europe benefits from better competition, lower prices and better-value quality services.
I particularly welcomed the passage on decentralised generation, especially where it said, ‘We must ensure that power is returned to the people through support for local and micro generation’. Those of us who support direct democracy in a localism agenda would say, ‘Why stop at energy?’ Why not devolve more power in a whole series of areas, not only back to national governments, but also to local communities – those people closest to the issue that is being legislated on? Here I sit with my colleagues, Daniel Hannan and Chris Heaton-Harris, who are also members of a great organisation called the Direct Democracy Movement. If you truly believe in power to the people, we should devolve power back to them and ask them what they want. If you truly ask them about the Lisbon Treaty – as we did in Ireland – they would say ‘no’."@en1
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