My Lords, there is no final destination in politics; it is a journey. It is the illusion of the extreme left and the extreme right to think that there can be a final struggle. There will be flexibility, which is revealed mostly in the details of the treaty in order to avoid holding intergovernmental conferences ad nauseam. It would be absurd to follow the reasoning of this amendment.
European Union (Amendment) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Anderson of Swansea
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 11 June 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills on European Union (Amendment) Bill.
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2007-08
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