Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-07-07-Speech-3-028"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-07-07"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100707.6.3-028"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-07-07-Speech-3-0292
lpv:speaker	lp:Nigel Farage2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, you could not really invent what is going on here this morning, could you? The Belgian Presidency takes over its six-month term and everybody pretends that it is business as usual! I was somewhat vilified a few months ago for pointing out that Belgium was not really a proper nation, but the electors of Belgium have rather proved the point: a separatist party is now the biggest party in Belgium! We have before us a caretaker Prime Minister, but we all turn a blind eye and pretend that it is business as usual. It simply is not! Mr Leterme, you have no legitimacy here. What an extraordinary irony that a country that is on the verge of breaking into two is, for the next six months, telling 26 other Member States what they should be doing! Perhaps worse than that, of course, is your own sheer hypocrisy in this matter, in standing here this morning and being a ‘good Belgian’. Let us just remember that you yourself, as Belgian Prime Minister, did not even know your own national anthem. You famously said, back in 2006, that it was only beer and football that held the country together. Now, I suppose, with the trappings of power, that has all been forgotten! Really, everybody in this Chamber is in denial because Belgium is a huge embarrassment to them. It is a prototype. It is a model for the entire European Union and it is on the verge of breaking up, yet none of you can admit it! What is going on today inside this Chamber frankly is beyond satire. I would not have thought there should be a Belgian Presidency of the Union. Would it not be fun if, at the end of the six-month Presidency, there was still no government in Belgium! I hope you are all very proud!"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Presidents (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 co-chair; EFD (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; United Kingdom Independence Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Nigel Farage,"1 "on behalf of the EFD Group."1
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