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6 May 2009 British Square Peg in European Round Hole The European Commissioner for what the EU calls "enlargement", Ollie Rehn, is a young Finn who apparently studied in the UK at one time. He has proved to be one of the many weaklings in the Commission, achieving little and taking the blame for nothing. Last week he gave an interview to the European Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Bruno Waterfield. Afterwards, I sent Ollie Rehn the following letter. Dear Commissioner Rehn You have been quoted in the London Daily Telegraph of 1st May as criticising the widely held British view that the influx of foreign workers into the UK must stop. You connect this view to the current economic turmoil across the EU. You apparently claim to know the UK "quite well". Not well enough, I suggest. Your opinion does not reflect the facts, nor the attitude of millions of indigenous British, who loathe and detest the EU’s interference in our way of life, and our way of doing things both politically and in many other crucial respects. Just consider the following: When, ever before, has a sovereign nation permitted outsiders to write and impose a new constitution except after defeat in war?  We are - and always have been – a British square peg in a European round hole. The UK, uniquely, is being asked to change almost every important aspect of our culture, traditions and way of doing things. In the UK, the state draws its powers from and answers to the people. In the EU, the state exists in its own right and the people answer to it. In the UK, our rights and freedoms are our birthright. In the EU, they are granted and removed by a passing parade of bureaucrats whom nobody elected and who masquerade as the state. In the UK everything is permitted until our elected parliament decides otherwise. In the EU, everything is implicitly forbidden unless the state decides to allow it. In the UK, our market economy is based on free enterprise. In the EU, the market is governed by social factors. In the UK, we have the common law safeguards of Habeus Corpus, trial by jury and the presumption of innocence. The EU uses the Napoleonic system of criminal law which provides no such safeguards against the oppression of the state. In the UK, we uphold and respect the rule of law, at least in part because we can change it at any time. In the EU, there is less respect for the law, because it is almost impossible to change. In the UK, the police exist to uphold the law and the armed forces to defend the realm. In the EU they both exist as arms of the state. In the UK, we do not tolerate fraud and corruption in public office, or anywhere else. In the EU, it is endemic and accepted as part of the system. Those are the differences newcomers have to understand and learn to support, if they choose to come to the UK and we are prepared to accept them. They are a précis of centuries-old hard-won liberties, yet the EU simply tries to ignore them. The uncontrolled influx of unwanted and uninvited foreigners, without so much as the courtesy of asking our approval, reflects the EU’s persistent arrogance for, and ignorance of the opinions of the people it claims to govern. The Daily Telegraph also reports you as wanting more facts provided to the people to improve their view of the EU.  Some hope!  Try these… Fact: apart from Holland, the UK is the most overcrowded part of the EU. It already holds double the number of people demographers suggest would be a sustainable population – 60 million instead of 30 million. Fact: most Europeans come to Britain for three reasons – to learn English, often as part of the process of reaching the USA – to enjoy the best and most indiscriminate welfare system for their families and themselves if necessary – and to earn money they then send back home and thus leech wealth out of the UK economy. Fact:  two of the most damaging effects of uncontrolled economic migration from the EU to Britain are the importation of high levels of criminality, and the dilution of British standards and culture. Almost half all the criminals in UK jails are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Consider the cost of dealing with their criminal activities, the damage they do to the UK, the legal processes involved in detection and prosecution, and the retention of such unwanted people and their families because we cannot export them back to their home countries under EU regulations. It is astronomic, and largely avoidable if we had not stupidly given the EU the power to impose such nonsense on us. Fact: as you know, the EU has proven utterly incapable of controlling its own self-proclaimed borders, as I have proved physically, and you have admitted in Cyprus, and as I have also proved physically in Kaliningrad and Belarus. All the details are on my website. Instead of enlargement, what we need in Britain is EU contraction – in our case totally.  If the way you run the EU is what Europeans want, then so be it. But it is not for us Brits.  We should be happy to trade with you (and you need us far more than we need you in that respect). But you need to get your fingers out of our till, and your laws off our books. And if you, or anyone else, wants to come and work in the UK they should have to seek permission, show good reason, support themselves and their families totally, and respect the British way of doing things. yours sincerely Ashley Mote MEP Independent, SE England.   To respond to, or comment on this Email, please email ashley.mote@btconnect.com