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"Mr President, it is always a pleasure to see you here, especially since so many of your colleagues have been off at this jamboree in Oslo claiming the Nobel Prize on our behalf. Isn’t there something slightly funny about – if I may digress for a moment – the European Union claiming to be a cause, rather than a consequence of, the peace in Europe built on the defeat of fascism, the spread of democracy and the NATO alliance? I was a little bit offended by the suggestion that we owed peace in this continent not to the people who had voted for democratic pluralism, but to a small oligarchy. Then again, that is the Nobel Prize Committee for you. Maybe next time it will be the economics prize that the EU gets.
While we are on the subject of keeping the peace in Europe, it might be worth thinking about a prize for the woman who liberated hundreds of millions of people from what must be reckoned in crude mathematical terms, the most murderous ideology devised by human intelligence, namely Margaret Thatcher. How about a Nobel Prize for her?"@en1
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