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I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

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You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

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However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.

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Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

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In terms of the arguments, I think the pro-Leave campaign is winning them all.

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Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you.

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You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue.

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I am not surprised Cameron says he supports what Gillard is doing in Australia because we have, in the U.K., a totally misconceived climate change plan as well.

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She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.

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Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the greenest government ever, but the definition of green is immature... I don't deny for a moment that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are so many other factors that affect climate. It is more complicated than the computer models that we are using. What the truth is, nobody knows.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: March 11th, 1932

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