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"Mr President, well if I may continue briefly with my 1984 analogy, we are all familiar in politics with the concept of doublethink: the ability to hold two contradictory views simultaneously in your mind. It comes out in all sorts of ways. For example, a lot of people will be aggressively in favour of the rights of indigenous communities in poor parts of the world to be left undisturbed and yet will be aggressively in favour of immigration and multiculturalism in other parts of the world. That is human nature and I suppose we all do that. But Tibet is a particularly egregious example of it.
In this Chamber we like to pat ourselves on the back for being on the side of democracy, freedom and self-determination, but when we try to apply that same logic to the European Union, the doublethink kicks in. If Tibetans are better off living under their own laws and their own people, then why are not Portuguese or Germans or British people or any other democratic community in Europe? How extraordinary that having developed this idea of national self-determination and exported it around the world, we have turned out backs on it here in the continent it came from."@en1
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