European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]
Debate between Richard Shepherd and John Redwood
Monday 27th January 2014
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Mr Redwood
Does my hon. Friend agree that the European Union is not so much a quasi-state as a virtually emerged state? It now has a Parliament, a Court, a currency, a Government and citizenry. It presumes to be a state.
Sir Richard Shepherd
It pretends to be a state. It has all the trappings that we fund it to have to be that absurd construction—and it is an absurd construction if we believe in democracy. There is no relationship between that construction and democracy.