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I cannot help thinking this is more a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted!
Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted has always been a useless exercise.
'He has closed the stable door after the horse has bolted,' said one dealer.
Mr President, Mrs d'Ancona's report is of course a bit like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, and that is just as well.
It is not enough to ascertain the existence of the deficit, closing the stable door after the horse has bolted! Here, we have to develop a common economic policy - we owe it to our citizens!
The Commissioner's endeavours are very laudable, but holding this debate now is akin to closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, since just a short while ago the 1997 budget was adopted and the support that it gives to tourism is enough to make one weep.
To draft a report on the Annual Report on equal opportunities for women and men in the European Union 2000, which the Commission has submitted to us on an annual basis since 1996, could effectively be seen to be closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
There is no point in locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Nearly a year ago, I remarked in this House that we are locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential, an injunction will not be of any help; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
This may be a case of locking the stable door after the horse has bolted, but the problem is this: Knowing that you are going to live a life of restraint come this week, you are bound to have eaten as much as possible to get all those calories in under the wire.