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"Mr President, I always thought being an MEP was a waste of time, but this really takes the biscuit here this evening. We are here talking about something that does not really matter, because the Lisbon Treaty – which you know you have bullied your way through – is going to come into force within the next month or so and we are going to have to debate this again. So here we are, wasting our time, thank you very, very much.
Let us take a critical look at the Schengen Agreement and what that has actually meant for Europe: it has allowed criminals, people traffickers and drug dealers to travel across thousands of miles unaided; it has allowed camps such as Sangatte and the Jungle to develop on the other side of the English Channel, with people living in deplorable conditions. I hope you are proud of yourself.
You would be aware of the 1951 Convention on Refugees that says that a refugee should claim asylum in the first safe country – but you disregard that. You disregard international law and you purport to be a responsible legal personality, as Lisbon would make you. Come on, pull the other one: this place is a joke! The people of the United Kingdom want to control its own borders; it has had enough of being ruled by you. I leave you with this warning: the British people are a just, tolerant and trusting people, but when you push us too far, we fight back. And when we fight back, we win."@en1
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