Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2017-06-14-Speech-3-716-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Jonathan Arnott2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, when you state subsidise something, you encourage more of it. Farmers set aside land more regularly, because the European Union pays them to do so. We pay child benefit because it is socially desirable to encourage people to have children. This debate concerns European political parties. You will, I am sure, recall the old joke suggesting that the word ‘politics’ derives from the Greek ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking insects’. The irony of an MEP saying this is not lost on me, but we are subsidising politicians. European political parties do not appear on ballot papers; they do not form governments; they do not even correspond to the political groups in this place. They exist because we subsidise them. If we actually needed them, they would exist without subsidy. Let us save the taxpayers’ money and find out whether or not we really need them, shall we?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2017-01-19--2018-02-04)3 member; CONT (2017-01-19--2018-02-04)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Jonathan Arnott,"1 "on behalf of the EFDD Group"1
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