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"Mr President, thank you very much for offering me the opportunity to give my explanation of vote on this particularly important issue.
Like the previous speakers, I note the duplicity with which those who support the European project often operate. We were told, for example, that the Lisbon Treaty would fall if any country voted against it. When the French and Dutch duly voted ‘no’, we were told that actually most countries want it to continue, so we should continue.
When the Irish rejected it, rather than simply accepting this as the final nail in the coffin of the Lisbon Treaty, we were told that we must find a way to make the Irish vote again until they vote the right way. Here is yet another example. We were told that the Lisbon Treaty is completely different to the Constitution. ‘Look at the evidence,’ they say, ‘we have changed the font size, we have moved it around, it is completely different and we have stripped out the symbols of the European Union’. We warned that this would not last for long. Those who support the project would find a way of reintroducing the symbols. This is exactly what has been done.
My plea to those of you who support the European project is to be honest with the electorate and have the courage to put it to a referendum."@en1
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