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"Mr President, yesterday I quoted my countryman Jonathan Swift on the subject of bank runs, but I think the condition of EU documentation and lawmaking would have defied the parodic powers even of Jonathan Swift. You may remember that when Gulliver goes to Lilliput it is explained to him by one of the Lilliputians that it is a rule there that no law should be so long or so complicated that a common man cannot understand it.
What, I wonder, would he have made of a typical day’s voting in this House? All of us know, although we do not like to admit it in front of our constituents, that you cannot possibly be on top of more than two or three of the documents that we vote on in any given session. There simply is not the time available in the day. In fact, we have elevated this scrambling of documentation into a ruling doctrine. When we turned the Constitution into the Treaty of Lisbon its chief author, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, cheerfully admitted that lawyers had gone through the text with the sole purpose of rendering it ‘
: unreadable.
What does it tell you about a political system when it dare not express its purposes? How can it expect loyalty from its citizens when it will not express itself clearly?"@en1
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