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-Draft remarks-

I think there is an air of unreality about this debate. We are not a neutral country and we never have been and I think saying otherwise is ridiculous.

Neutrality as a position has been, historically, almost impossible. And if we thought that by putting neutrality in our constitution would mean we would not be influenced, we are kidding ourselves. We live in a wider world.

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