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European Union (Amendment) Bill (1 Apr 2008): Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank: ...and remain critical. If I am required to define my personal position, I call myself a good European. But I am a pragmatic, step-by-step Fabian—not an ideologue—ready to hold steady or to change and move on as circumstances require. In a familiar newspaper, four years ago, I read, "Europe celebrates its greatest project as continent's warring tribes finally unite". The article...
Essential Local Services (3 May 2000): Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank: ...about it. However, the noble Lord, Lord Rees-Mogg, was right to say that, "in the English countryside generally, burglary no longer seems to be taken seriously ... zero policing has resulted in a climate of fear [which affects] the old most of all". We all know that police houses in many villages stand empty, if they were not sold years ago. The local policeman, who everyone knew and who...

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