no you want to ban our national flags
but we're gonna wave you goodbye and
we'll look forward in the future to
working with you as sovereign if you
disobey the rules you get cut off could
we please remove the flags so this is it
the final chapter at the end of the road
a 47 year political experiment that the
British frankly have never been very
happy with my mother and father signed
that to a common market not to a
political union not to flags anthems
presidents and now you even want your
own army for me
it's been 27 years of campaigning and
over 20 years here in this Parliament
I'm not particularly happy with the
agreement we're being asked to vote on
tonight but Boris has been remarkably
bold in the last few months and miss von
der Leyen
he's made it clear he's promised us
there'll be no level playing field and
on that basis I wish him every success
in the next round of negotiations I
really do but the most significant point
is this what happens at 11:00 p.m. this
Friday the 31st of January 2020 marks
the point of no return once we've left
we are never coming back and the rest
frankly is detail we're going we will be
gone and that should be the summit of my
own political ambitions I walked in here
as I've said before you've all thought
it was terribly funny you stopped
laughing in 2016 but my view has changed
of Europe since I since I joined in 2005
I saw the Constitution that had been
drafted by JISC art and others I saw it
rejected by the French in a referendum
I saw it rejected by the Dutch in a
referendum and I saw you in these
institutions ignore them bring it back
as the Lisbon Treaty and boast you could
Ram it through without their being
referendums where the Irish did have a
vote and did say no and were forced to
vote again you're very good at making
people vote again but what we've proved
is the British are too big to bully
thank goodness so I became I became an
outright opponent of the entire European
project
I won't brexit to start a debate across
the rest of Europe what do we want from
Europe if we want trade friendship
cooperation reciprocity we don't need a
European Commission we don't need a
European Court we don't need these
institutions and all of this power and I
can promise you both in UK and indeed in
the brexit party we love Europe we just
hate the European Union it's as simple
as that so I'm hoping I'm hoping this
begins the end of this project it's a
bad project
it isn't just undemocratic it's
anti-democratic and it puts in that
front row it gives people power without
accountability people who cannot be held
to account by the electorate and that is
an unacceptable structure indeed there's
an historic battle going on now across
the West in Europe America and elsewhere
it is globalism against populism and you
may loathe populism but I tell you a
funny thing it's becoming very popular
and it has great benefits no more
financial contributions no more European
Court of Justice
no more Common Fisheries Policy no more
being talked down to no more being
bullied no more ghee for hofstadt I mean
I mean what's knots are like I know
you're gonna miss us I know you want to
ban our national flags but we're gonna
wave you goodbye
and we'll look forward in the future to
working with you as sovereign if you
disobey the rules you get cut off could
we please remove the flags
[Applause]
I'm really please sit down resume your
seats put your flags away you're leaving
and take them with you if you are
leaving now goodbye then I just say if I
may say Justin it's like reference the
word hate was used in the last
contribution and I really think given
what we listened to prior to this so we
should not hate anyone or any nation or
any people
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