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"Madam President, homelessness and hopelessness lead to criminality in all too many cases, or at least to a social entrapment in which generation after generation is trapped in poverty. It threatens to become the scourge of the age. There are many causes, but one of the keys is surely employment, and one of the answers to that is surely education.
I regret to say that my own government is guilty of neglect. In 1945 they introduced a scheme whereby those with academic ability could attend grammar schools, which had previously been the province of the wealthy. That offered a better way out, breaking the circle. It was the greatest social mobility scheme ever. It even benefited me, but later governments abolished it.
We need an education system in Europe which caters for all abilities. We need academic schools, technical schools, commercial schools, sports academies, drama schools, universities and colleges of further education. We need industrialists to take on apprentices and send them to university at their expense, and we need those industrialists to invest in the poorer countries of Europe to help raise their standard.
I do not believe in the mass migration of people across Europe promoted by this EU. We need settled communities, not footloose ones; we need people trained in a range of skills and for them, for the most part, to remain in their homelands to develop prosperity there, raising their standard of living and banishing homelessness through their own efforts. Finally, Madam President, allow me to point out that I come from country which was recently and disgracefully described by this Commissioner as a nasty country, and my final comment is: I do not wish to see poor countries in Europe."@en1
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