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"Mr President, in a speech as Prime Minister before the French National Assembly, Tony Blair once recalled his experience as a waiter in Paris.
There had apparently been a deal among all the waiters that they would put their tips collectively into a single pot and at the end of the week they would share the money out equally. Several weeks went by before he realised that he was the only person putting his tips into the collective pot and, as he told the Assembly to the delight of the right and the horror of the left, it was his first experience of socialism. He might have added that it was his first experience of European integration.
With energy policy, we can see coming up all of the worst aspects of the common fisheries policy. The essential flaw of common ownership is that nobody has an incentive to treat the resource as renewable. Under the CFP, the United Kingdom puts in 70% of the fish stocks but gets a quota equivalent to 25% by volume or 15% by value. Now the same thing is happening with our offshore energy. We are one of the few countries in the EU which is not reliant on imports and yet we face these attempts at harmonisation.
Imagine the French allowing wine to be treated as a common resource, or the Germans allowing cars to be treated as a common resource. These things have nothing to do with Brussels."@en1
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