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dcterms:Date	"2009-03-10"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bradbourn2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I rise to speak specifically on Mr El Khadraoui’s report on the Eurovignette, the subject of which has been before this House in numerous forms on many previous occasions. My position remains the same in that I do not see the need to pile extra taxation onto an industry which is already badly hit by the economic downturn. In the United Kingdom, over GBP 50 billion is already taken from road transport each year and only GBP 10 billion reinvested in transport as a whole. So much for hypothecation. At a time when we are facing the biggest economic crisis in living memory, and businesses, large and small, are going bankrupt each week, why are we at a European level discussing measures which would exacerbate the problem? In this context, may I also say to Brian Simpson that it is better to do nothing than to do it wrong, as I am sure his party will find to its cost in the next few weeks. On a more general note, I should make Members aware that, in the UK, these matters are decisions for local authorities in the context of implementing road pricing. In my own region, the West Midlands, all seven of the local city councils of differing political complexions rejected the idea of implementing such a scheme. In Brian Simpson’s own region, citizens overwhelmingly rejected road-pricing in a local referendum in the Greater Manchester area. So I would ask this Parliament, and the European Commission, what part of ‘no’ do you not understand? It should not be for the EU to dictate a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach in this area. It should remain a matter solely for national and local determination."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Philip Bradbourn (PPE-DE )."1
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