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[YouTube video by voteleavemedia, published 22/05/2016: "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn makes the case for Brexit. EU referendum 2016".]
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXTvsqUphMc
[TV news report, date uncertain.]
Female newsreader: ...but he didn't sound that enthusiastic about staying in. And that's because, well, he's not. For many years, Jeremy Corbyn had public doubts about the EU.
[TV news footage from 1996.]
Jeremy Corbyn: ... have a European bureaucracy totally unaccountable to anybody. Powers have gone from national parliaments - they haven't gone to the European Parliament, they've gone to the Commission and, to some extent, the Council of Ministers. These are quite serious matters.
[Cut to footage from Sky News Labour Leadership Debate, 3rd September 2015.]
Jeremy Corbyn: I'm concerned about the way the European Union is increasingly operating like a free market across Europe, tearing up the Social Chapter, damaging working class and workers' interests across Europe, hiding tax evasion in Luxembourg and other places and secretly negotiating a Transatlantic [audience starts to applaud, Liz Kendall tries to interrupt] - can I finish - a Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership. I think we, as a party, need to be making strong demands of defending and expanding the Social Chapter, defending and expanding workers' rights across Europe and chasing down these approved tax havens that exist by the European Union, all across Europe, and asking some serious questions about the way they've treated the people of Greece and other countries by their imposition of austerity measures on them. [Audience applause.]
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[YouTube video by You Kipper, published 10/03/2016: "Jeremy Corbyn makes the case for leaving the European Union".]
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVJZTxbCaKA
[Footage from Sky News Labour Leadership Debate, 3rd September 2015.]
Jeremy Corbyn: I'm concerned about the way the European Union is increasingly operating like a free market across Europe, tearing up the Social Chapter, damaging working class and workers' interests across Europe, hiding tax evasion in Luxembourg and other places and secretly negotiating a Transatlantic [audience starts to applaud, Liz Kendall tries to interrupt] - can I finish - a Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership. I think we, as a party, need to be making strong demands of defending and expanding the Social Chapter, defending and expanding workers' rights across Europe and chasing down these approved tax havens that exist by the European Union, all across Europe, and asking some serious questions about the way they've treated the people of Greece and other countries by their imposition of austerity measures on them. [Audience applause.]
Adam Boulton: Now... Okay... Well, we seem to be -
Liz Kendall: We can't change it if we're out of it. And the people who are undermining the Social Chapter is the Tories, being dragged to the right by their own backbenchers.
Jeremy Corbyn: This is why - the point I'm making is that Britain ought to be defending those social gains. We, as the Labour Party, should be having demands on this -
Liz Kendall [interrupting]: Well, we are. Yep, agreed, that's what we're doing.
Jeremy Corbyn: - rather than leaving it for Cameron to go away and tear up -
Liz Kendall [interrupting]: How can we tackle migration and the migration crisis, if we're out of Europe?
Jeremy Corbyn: - the Social Chapter, and tear up an awful lot of environmental protection and other issues, and also the way in which -
Liz Kendall [interrupting]: Can't tackle climate change if we're not playing a leading role in Europe.
Jeremy Corbyn: - TTIP is being negotiated. I think we want a social Europe, a Europe of solidarity. What we're in danger of going with Cameron's negotiations is a Europe of free market and very little social protection -
Liz Kendall [interrupting]: Well, we've been round this -
[Both speakers are drowned out by audience applause.]