Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-10-20-Speech-2-024"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-10-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Climate change and developing countries in the framework of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091020.5.2-024"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Nick Griffin2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, there are two overriding themes in this place: first, concern with the growing gulf between the political elite and the ordinary taxpayers. Second, a hysterical obsession with man-made global warming. These two themes are intimately linked. The global-warming fixation is a classic example of how the political class here is out of touch with the little people who have to pay the bills. While the EU backs the Copenhagen proposals to further the deindustrialisation of the West and the corporate domination of the Third World, a growing majority of ordinary people regard climate change as an elite scam – an excuse to tax and control us and to impose internationalist dogma and global government at the expense of the nation state. Can you not see the danger in this growing gulf? It is time to look at the facts. Man-made global warming is an unproven theory based on manipulative statistics. The so-called consensus on the issue is the product not of debate but of the suppression of expert dissent. Before the political class and the green industrial complex dare to impose a single new tax, poisoned light bulb or useless wind farm on the ordinary taxpayer, they need to try to convince the public that global warming man-made, that returning to the warmer climate of medieval times would be a bad thing and that there is something that Europe – as opposed to the United States, China and India – can actually do about it. Either hold a debate and close the gap between you and the people, or do not complain when we nationalists – the ones who listen to the people – close it for you."@en1
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