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5 May 2009 Ashley Mote This week is the last plenary session of the European Parliament.  Elections in June will produce a new crop of members.  As I am not standing for re-election, I attempted to summarise in the one minute permitted what I thought voters ought to know. This is what I said: "Over the last five years I have watched in horror the EU’s endless, scandalous, institutionalised looting of taxpayers’ money. "I have watched in horror an already overcrowded UK deluged by hundreds of thousands of uninvited foreign workers who arrived for their benefit and to claim our welfare. "I have watched in close-up a legislative system which permits anonymous bureaucrats to generate so-called law without any regard for the damage they do to the British economy and businesses. "I have watched in close-up this expensive, ineffectual talking shop of a parliament masquerading as an elaborate illusion of accountable democracy – a monstrous deceit on the electors who sent us here. "President Gorbachev was right. The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in western clothes. "One day you will realise you cannot be masters in someone else's house." As usual, the few socialists and federalists waiting their turn to speak tried to shout me down, without any intervention from the chairman of course.  At least their reaction suggested I had struck a few raw nerves.   To respond to, or comment on this Email, please email ashley.mote@btconnect.com