Guidelines on the framework of future EU-UK relations (debate)
Terry Reintke (Verts/ALE). – Madam President, as this process unfolds, we can all clearly see what the biggest lie was during the Brexit campaign. It was not a bus that was claiming that that there would be GBP 350 million for the NHS, it was not the wrong statistics given or the wrong representations of the European Union; it was the claim itself that was a lie – taking back control – because as we see Brexit develop, we see that it does the exact opposite. Millions of citizens – non-British and British EU citizens – are losing control over their lives. They are losing control over the possibilities that they have in their lives. We see the people on the island of Ireland losing control over the peace process which they thought was going in the right direction. We need to say very clearly that when this is going to unfold, when we are going to lose control, who is going to win from this? It is going to be the bullies, it is going to be the people with no scruples. This Parliament has to make sure that the good people are not going to lose control, that we stand up for their rights, that we stand up for them having control over their lives, even in this very horrible situation.