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"Mr President, many in the House have today congratulated the Irish people on their good sense in rejecting the appeals of Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party and voting overwhelmingly in favour of the Lisbon Treaty.
Members should perhaps also commiserate with the British people, because we have to put up with Mr Farage on a daily basis. He calls a two-to-one majority in Ireland a ‘victory for bully boys’. I am afraid his words are all too typical of a man who uses distortions and deceit, and sometimes downright lies, about the European Union. All too often, those words are unchallenged by journalists.
However, hyperbole can turn to insanity. Now he is comparing the campaign in Ireland with the brutality of the latest elections in Zimbabwe. He describes the Treaty that gives every Member State the right to withdraw from the Union as an end of independence. Nevertheless, we should be compassionate. Parliament has a medical service. Mr President, I invite you to ask the men in white coats to offer their services to our colleague. Nonsense about Europe may pour from his lips but at least they can help ensure that he does not choke on it."@en1
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