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"Mr President, I am sure we all are familiar with the Harry Potter film in which the goblins speak gobbledygook. Well, I note with interest that the rapporteur has adopted that language in drafting this document. Has the EU also adopted it as its official language? It seems so. How else can we explain the desire for a return to Luddism that is reflected in the policy proposals we see here?
Technology – or to use the new word that has been invented ‘automisation’ – is to be kicked to the kerb in order to keep people in menial jobs. We have all experienced the frustration at a self-service checkout, but is that sufficient to warrant European legislation stopping technological progress? These are the very industries and start-ups that are often helped via EU funding. Economic growth is not achieved by the ‘stop the world, I want to get off’ attitude which the EU seems to embrace. Already we have seen global market output predicted to fall to 14.2% – down from 30.9% in the 1980s.
Under the European employment scheme EURES, only 25 jobs have gone to British applicants out of a total of 3 887 placements. That works out at EUR 45 400 per job to the British taxpayer and highlights once again why EU membership is not in Britain’s best interest.
Now we have the proposals for the European minimum wage framework – further hammering home how many of the powers that should be in the hands of our MPs in Westminster have been passed on to the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels."@en1
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