The criteria are said to be the recent occasions on which the person been granted a one minute speech before and the number of occasions that the MEP is likely to speak that week (Andrew has not been called to speak on any other occasion). It is interesting to note that no fewer than two MEPs were absent when their names were called but were called again, in preference to this MEP who was present during the whole time.
This is what the MEP for Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire would have said given the opportunity.
“The European Union, as we know, is the home of Freedom, Democracy and Justice, but from November of this year it is planning an assault on these concepts. It would like the criminal law – that means locking people up – to be used against what it calls xenophobia.
The suffix ‘phobia’ does not mean ‘hatred’; still less does it mean ‘harm’. It means ‘fear’, which is state of mind. The idea that a state of mind should be made a criminal offence throughout Europe is quite mad but that does not mean that it is harmless or even original. George Orwell got there first. He called it ‘Thought Crime’.
That leaves the awkward question of how do we know when somebody is committing one. As usual, Orwell came up with a splendid answer: Face Crime – the idea that a mere facial expression might be an offence.
The purpose is to suppress any last vestige of freedom of expression or even freedom of thought on the greatest challenge facing the European peoples – their complete extinction.
‘1984′ is not our past. It is not just a work of fiction. It the future our masters have planned for us.
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