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“Criminalising the language of Shakespeare sums up everything that is wrong with European entanglement.”
Interpreted asmetaphor
“Farage sees this criminalization of English as exemplifying all the problems of European involvement.”
The claim expresses Farage’s evaluative view that this criminalization symbolizes or represents the broader problems of European involvement, rather than asserting a determinate causal or factual relationship.
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Listen, I was a commodity broker, right? We bought and sold copper in US cents per pound or in deutschmarks per tonne. I have absolutely no problem working with both systems – you know, 2.20462 is deeply embedded in my brain. I just happen to think that to criminalise the language of Shakespeare is an appalling thing to do – and actually sums up, really, everything that is wrong with this European entanglement.
You ask [your greengrocer] for a pound of bananas. If he weighs them out and sells them to you, he’ll have broken the law. Steve Thoburn from Sunderland got a criminal record for it and died at the age of 39 because of the hassle. Who needs to live in a country like that?
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