Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-05-06-Speech-3-438"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Roger Helmer2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I had been hoping that Mr Pöttering might perhaps be in the Chair tonight, as I wanted to thank him publicly for giving me the opportunity of leaving the EPP Group a few years ago. I am delighted that my Conservative colleagues will all be leaving the EPP Group shortly – an objective which I have worked towards for 10 years. We are here to debate the Lisbon Treaty so I would have reminded Mr Pöttering that his own country, Germany, has not yet ratified. We in the EU claim to be a Union of values, based on democracy and the rule of law, yet we ignore democracy. We ride roughshod over the wishes of voters. We rejected the results of referenda in Denmark on Maastricht, in Ireland on Nice, in France and Holland on the Constitution and now on Lisbon in Ireland again. We treat the aspirations of our electorates with outright contempt. So much for democracy! We are no better on the rule of law. We are implementing plans and spending based on the Lisbon Treaty ahead of ratification. This is little less than a bloodless coup d’état. Mr Pöttering says that a million Irish voters cannot stand in the way of 450 million Europeans. He is right. So let the 450 million vote on the Treaty. Britain will vote ‘no’. In all probability, France and Germany will vote ‘no’ but you dare not let the people vote on the Treaty because you know their answer already. In Britain, all but eight of our 646 MPs were elected on a commitment to a referendum, yet our discredited Labour Government has scandalously broken its promise. Let me give colleagues due notice. We in the British Conservative Party will make a Lisbon referendum a key plank of our European election platform. We will deliver a referendum and we will kill this wretched and shameful Treaty stone dead."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Roger Helmer (NI ). -"1
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