Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-10-13-Speech-4-069-000"

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lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-10-13-Speech-4-070-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Godfrey Bloom2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, it is a shame that the Commissioner has gone. He would learn so much from me, since, unlike most of the people here, I actually have commercial experience. I have actually run companies. I actually know what I am talking about. I am going to talk about jobs now. We have 40% youth unemployment in parts of the European Union, and it is being suggested by people here that this is some sort of act of God. It is not an act of God: it is sheer, unadulterated incompetence. Look at what the EU is doing. Look at the barriers it is putting in front of companies, and particularly small and medium-sized companies, preventing them from employing people. We have minimum wages. We have pensions. We have holiday entitlements. We have a job tax – called national insurance in my country – which is absolutely huge, so the employee does not actually get half the money that is being paid by the employer. Trying to get rid of lazy and incompetent workers is virtually impossible, so sacking people is very difficult. And if you cannot hire, you cannot fire, so you lose flexibility. We have maternity leave, paternity leave, stress leave and all the rest of the nonsense that is invented by people here who have absolutely no commercial experience at all. It is not an accident that we have 40% of our young people unemployed: it is your fault. And let me remind you of liberty of contract. In a free society, we should have liberty of contract so that an employer and an employee can get together, sign a contract and get on with their lives without interference from this place."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; United Kingdom Independence Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; FEMM (2010-02-08--2012-01-18)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EFD (2009-07-14--2014-01-08)3 member; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "Godfrey Bloom,"1 "on behalf of the EFD Group."1
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