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"Mr President, this report and the debate which attended it was filled with all the usual clichéd attacks on the British Government and people: we are xenophobic, anti
ungenerous and all the rest of it. After 15 years in this place, I barely notice that kind of tone anymore; it ‘passes by me as the idle wind, which I respect not’.
But it is worth just putting on the record that my country has assimilated four million inward migrants over the last 20 years. That is a figure without any parallel anywhere in Europe; the only country that comes close is Germany. Despite that, my constituents continue to recognise that a contribution can be made by people who come from elsewhere in the European Union to work in the United Kingdom.
In exchange, they want a sense of roughly whom we are admitting and in roughly what numbers. They want to control those things. They want to distinguish between people who come to work and people who come to claim benefits. The first may be a founding principle of the European Union, the second is a creature of judicial activism by EU institutions. It should be a basic principle that, before you start drawing from a welfare pot, you should have had to put something into it."@en1
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