All I want to say is that King Canute did not order the sea to go back. He was demonstrating to his courtiers that he did not have the power to turn the sea back, so the analogy that the noble Baroness was making is incorrect.
European Union Bill
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Lord Willoughby de Broke
(UK Independence Party)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 3 May 2011.
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