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"Madam President, I would pick up on Mr Guy Verhofstadt’s point about how eurosceptics and populists have been beaten three times in recent elections. Actually, it is four: in Scotland, we saw them off handsomely with 62% of the vote in favour of remaining within our European family, and we remain in favour of remaining within our European family. Scotland will not be silent, passive, bystanders within this process.
I would also urge you that while the people of Scotland want to work with our friends and colleagues across the EU, there is a deliberate wilful agenda within UK politics to misrepresent and demonise this process and the personalities involved within it. We have heard it today: ‘do not give them more ammunition, do not give them what they want’. This is them getting their excuses in early – ‘Brexit would have gone great except for those bloody foreigners’; that is the narrative they are trying to kid the British people with. Do not give them what they want; it is not in Scotland’s name.
As for our guidelines, I read them with a heavy heart, but I see little to dislike. I would urge the suspension of the ‘nothing is agreed till everything is agreed’ principle for citizens’ rights. You could give real impetus to this by committing to an early agreement on this issue, and we could make that work now for all of our citizens."@en1
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