Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-03-08-Speech-2-765-000"
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"Madam President, this report talks a lot about how to get around the rules effectively; how to increase the budget without actually breaking the rules and ceilings of the multiannual financial framework. But what I want to focus on today is the text in the report which accuses the Member States of ‘duplicitous behaviour’ when they do not want to give the European Union more money.
I am shocked. It is not a very nice thing to accuse the United Kingdom of, and David Cameron, as we all know, leads its government – the same David Cameron, of course, who gave us a cast-iron guarantee that if he became PM, he would not let matters rest there about the Lisbon Treaty. Well he did let matters rest there, but I am sure that was not really his fault, right? This is the Downing Street that recently promised us that they had nothing to do with John Longwood’s sacking as the head of the British Chamber of Commerce, when he backed Brexit. I am sure that phone call from an aide hours before the sacking was 100% coincidence. Right? The Prime Minister, who promised us he would have net migration down to the tens of thousands a year if he was elected. Well, okay, I cannot excuse that one at all.
So we have this report in front of us which calls for finding ways to spend more taxpayers’ money in 2017. A report which calls for more spending in many areas and the one place where the report actually calls for cuts – I suppose the one area where it does that is to actually ask for more funding to be able to implement the cut. So whilst we are asking for more taxpayers’ money for 2017, I think this report had better think about who it actually calls ‘duplicitous’; if it is referring to Cameron then, who knows, it might actually be right for once."@en1
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