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"Madam President, England has no need of an EU framework for democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights. We had a democracy that evolved over eight centuries. That democracy is now hollow, as most of our laws now come from the European Union and not our own democratically elected Parliament and government.
We had a rule of law that had evolved since the days of Alfred The Great, but English law is now superseded by EU law. Impartial English courts are now overridden by the political courts of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Our ancient protections of individual liberties such as
have been swept away by such measures as the European Arrest Warrant.
We had fundamental rights in England, developed over centuries under common law and such enactments as Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. There is nothing that the EU can teach the English about democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights."@en1
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