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"en.20160609.23.4-277-000"2
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"Mr President, openness and transparency by governing organisations is critical to voter trust and expectation. There is little or no openness and transparency here in the EU. With regard to international agreements, in the UK TTIP is now a major issue which worries all British citizens, as it will harm our National Health Service, and the National Health Service in Great Britain is the nearest thing to Shinto – it is practically a religion, it is inviolable. To see this treaty, Members this of this honourable House have to go to a windowless dungeon and sign a document that we will not disclose what we have read, and hand over all our electronic equipment, we are not given a pen or paper.
This is the EU’s definition of transparency. This affects our NHS, our agriculture and many other matters. The British members of this Parliament including myself have to sit on their hands while an unelected foreign Commissioner – or Commissar – takes decisions for us. The UK will be much better off creating its own treaties with the rest of the world, rather than having to allow 27 other nations to put their tuppence-worth in as well. It would be much better if we did it ourselves after Brexit.
This Parliament thinks consulting documents in a dungeon is a great achievement for the EU. Well I’m sorry, this place looks more and more like the old Supreme Soviet – and it makes it look positively libertarian in comparison."@en1
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