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"Madam President, this debate perfectly illustrates almost everything wrong with the thinking of the European Union. Saying that 500 million people are a single market does not make them one. A single market based on freedom of movement can only work when there is something approaching a common standard of living. There is not. Poor income in Bulgaria and Romania does not even give a monthly wage which is as good as the UK’s minimum wage. This means that the lorry drivers of the UK simply cannot compete and earn a decent day’s living. We know there is widespread corruption with licences that can be bought on the Internet. This has led to some unqualified drivers on our roads.
Let me make a couple of points clear. I am not blaming the people of Eastern Europe; they just want to make a living. I am not opposing free trade; but the role of the markets is to increase prosperity, not to create a rush to the bottom. These problems are completely and utterly the result of pie-in-the-sky thinking by EU decision makers. It is the EU’s economic illiteracy which is to blame. When will they understand that the objective is prosperity? They talk about good repute of lorry drivers. It is not lorry drivers who are the problem. It is the unelected Brussels Commissioners and their bureaucratic staff who are dreaming up policies devoid of any understanding of how the real world works. The end result of this type of legislation punishes the hard-working lorry drivers of Great Britain."@en1
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