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  But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

  4.3 · 37 votes · 191 reads

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  Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

  4.9 · 60 votes · 180 reads

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  Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

  4.0 · 11 votes · 158 reads

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  Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

  4.0 · 17 votes · 135 reads

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  For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

  3.8 · 52 votes · 171 reads

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  From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

  4.1 · 55 votes · 150 reads

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  Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all h

  3.2 · 20 votes · 193 reads

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  I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

  3.8 · 13 votes · 182 reads

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  I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

  3.8 · 57 votes · 43 reads

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  I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and a

  3.7 · 60 votes · 143 reads

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  I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

  3.6 · 12 votes · 185 reads

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  I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

  3.5 · 49 votes · 120 reads

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  I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

  4.3 · 49 votes · 125 reads

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  I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency,

  4.9 · 27 votes · 10 reads

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  I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that lo

  4.8 · 12 votes · 15 reads

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  I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

  3.7 · 52 votes · 32 reads

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  I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's small

  4.2 · 11 votes · 129 reads

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  If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

  4.5 · 30 votes · 53 reads

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  If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

  3.2 · 22 votes · 177 reads

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  If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

  4.2 · 61 votes · 70 reads

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  In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on con

  3.5 · 42 votes · 30 reads

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  It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

  3.6 · 63 votes · 162 reads

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  It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

  3.4 · 33 votes · 30 reads

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  More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

  3.6 · 60 votes · 184 reads

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  On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have

  3.1 · 43 votes · 22 reads

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  One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'

  4.0 · 27 votes · 125 reads

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  Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

  4.3 · 19 votes · 144 reads

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  People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

  3.5 · 41 votes · 9 reads

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  People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why

  3.7 · 57 votes · 141 reads

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  Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets

  4.5 · 39 votes · 85 reads

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  The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

  4.9 · 27 votes · 74 reads

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  The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration

  4.2 · 5 votes · 145 reads

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  The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

  4.0 · 24 votes · 143 reads

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  There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

  4.1 · 50 votes · 1 reads

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  There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

  4.8 · 50 votes · 95 reads

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  There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

  4.9 · 15 votes · 34 reads

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  Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we s

  4.1 · 53 votes · 95 reads

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  We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our co

  5.0 · 21 votes · 70 reads

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  We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.

  3.8 · 50 votes · 87 reads

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  We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Un

  4.0 · 53 votes · 123 reads

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