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"Madam President, here we go again. In the worst financial crisis in living memory, this House comes up with more unrealistic and irresponsible demands. It simply beggars belief that a majority here can even dare to ask for a 6.8% increase.
The idea that genuine growth and employment can be delivered by the EU budget is simply ridiculous. Hundreds of billions have been spent to date that have added up to precisely nothing in terms of growth. Many believe, as I do, that the EU and its policies are, to a large extent, responsible for this crisis. The Commission, in particular, has failed to control the use of EU funding entrusted to it by the taxpayers, while targeting the funds towards supporting its own heavy regulation and the EU project as a whole.
Now this House wants to reward this failure with an increase. If you are listening, Mr Cameron, I have a straight-talking message for you: continue to send money to Brussels and you are effectively transferring power to an unelected, irresponsible and hugely wasteful bureaucracy. For goodness sake, give the British people a break and cut our contribution to the EU budget. I am calling for a reduction, not for a freeze."@en1
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