Or are we going to get the Martin Schulz we have got to know since 2004 and leader of the Socialist group. You know the one I mean - snarling, angry, unable to control his temper, intolerant of anybody with an alternative point of view. Somebody who is contemptuous of free referendums were people have the temerity to vote No. Somebody who is anti-British to his fingertips and does not like free markets.
I was wondering which one we are going to get?
Well, your opening speech has settled that question for me. It is pretty clear we are going to have two and half years of political fanaticism from the chair. And I have to say only a Third World country, only a banana republic would want to have an overtly political president of a parliament but it is what we have got.
I may represent the smallest group in this parliament Mr Schulz, but I can tell you it is a group who ideas and views are now being echoed by a growing number of citizens right around this continent. I am sure you will agree that polls show it is fifty fifty whether people think the EU is a good thing or a bad thing.
What we represent sir is not anti-Europeanism - that is not what it is about. We believe in nation state democracy, we want a Europe of trade, we want a Europe of cooperation, we want a Europe that is responsible.