Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-24-Speech-2-019"
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"Mr President, President Sarkozy is reported in the London
as saying the Irish ‘are bloody fools. They have been stuffing their faces at Europe’s expense for years and now they dump us in the s-h-i-t’ – his word, not mine. Last week we all said we respected the Irish vote, but we are not respecting it. We are treating the Irish with utter contempt. Like Robert Mugabe, we are simply rejecting the verdict of the people. Wolfgang Schäuble has said that a million Irish cannot decide for half a billion Europeans. Very well then, let the rest of us vote on this treaty. You dare not do so because you know that we too would vote no.
This very month the EU lost its last pretence of public consent or democratic legitimacy. It has been revealed for what it is, which is an authoritarian conspiracy against the people. The referendum was in Ireland, but it was here in Brussels that democracy finally died. We are here today to bury it."@en1
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