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"My home constituency of London has some of the highest rates of poverty and inequality in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, I voted against this report on poverty and social exclusion. I voted against the report, not because I think that we should not be confronting poverty, but because of the naïve proposals put forward in this report. The only way to tackle poverty is by improving the economy, by cutting red tape and regulation to create the conditions to boost businesses and create jobs. Plans for a legally-enforceable, Europe-wide minimum income are more likely to hurt employment than to help it. And do we really think that we can solve poverty through a series of EU-wide ‘poverty awareness seminars’? I do not believe that the EU should be pressing governments to spend more money on state benefits at a time of economic austerity. I do not believe that the EU should ever be pressing governments to spend more money on state benefits! We need realistic proposals to combat poverty and, most significantly, these should be generated at the national level. The last thing we need is another unwanted, unserviceable decree from Brussels which fails to help those most in need."@en1
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