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by tom_mellior 2529 days ago
Most of the EU agrees that the Strasbourg sessions are dumb, but I challenge you to find a single prominent Brexiteer who cited this (or anything else directly related to France) as a reason to leave.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLp7LtXmy68

02:35 - "But once a month, do you know what happens? They load the contents of our offices and papers into big, plastic trunks, and they put those trunks on lorries, and they drive them nearly 400 miles down Europe’s motorways to a French city called Strasbourg where, for four days, the contents of our offices, and our papers, are put into a new office, and the parliament then sits there..."

(Given, this video was shot after the election, not before, but Nigel Farage most likely spoke about this before too.)

Yeah, I can imagine him mentioning it among many other things, but of course there was no bus driving around with this painted on it. Still, good find.