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Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2:30 pm
Chris Bryant (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Rhondda, Labour)
One of the most important powers that Parliament now has, following the Lisbon treaty, which the hon. Gentleman opposed, is the power to say no to legislation proposed by the Commission. I would have thought that he would support that-it is one of the reasons why I would have thought that he would support the Lisbon treaty-but if he wants to remain on the extremist wing of Europe, he should feel free to remain there.
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Marty York
Posted on 20 Jan 2010 12:50 pm (Report this annotation)
Having minority representation (worded carefully as I believe there are far more of us than our representation in the political elite indicates) does not make an opinion extremist: Nazi's were in the majority in Germany and Stalinists in the USSR - did that make liberals the "extremist wing" of the Third Reich/Soviet Union?