He refers to the time-honoured friendship between Portugal and the United Kingdom and he considers that  in an act of true friendship the EU should help and support the UK to protect it from doing something wrong and suffering from it.
Sklicuje se na dolgoletne prijateljske odnose med Portugalsko in Združenim kraljestvom ter meni, da bi morala EU kot znak resničnega prijateljstva pomagati Združenemu kraljestvu in ga zaščititi pred napakami, ki mu bodo škodile.