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6 May 2009 Send Brussels Trouble and a Message in June A euro-sceptic friend recently asked me to provide five reasons for voting for a party standing for British withdrawal from the EU in the Euro-elections next month . This is a summary of my reply: It is very difficult to select just five from an horrifyingly long list of possible reasons to vote into the European Parliament someone who is determined to get us out of the EU altogether. But here goes: 1.  The EU is incapable of using taxpayers money in the best interests of taxpayers. The Commission presides over a complex and thoroughly well organised system of institutionalised looting, and has no intention of changing a fundamentally corrupt system. There are far too many high-powered, unaccountable snouts in the trough. It finally occurred to me only recently that they did not actually want change. The opprobrium every year, which lasts for a mere few days when the Court of Auditors again fails to sign off the accounts, is a small price to pay for the money that passes into the wrong hands. 2.  The EU is well down the road towards diluting national identities by positively promoting the mass movement of peoples from the poorer to the richer member states. Immigration is out of control and that is deliberate. The UK already has double the ideal population - 60 million instead of the 30 million demographers estimate would make the UK’s ability to provide for itself sustainable. If Turkey joins the EU, as seems possible in the foreseeable future, another 80 million mainly Muslim people can then come here, whether we like it or not and whether we have room for them. Most have little idea of Western values and culture, and little interest in anything but the benefits we might provide. (I have seen this for myself in Northern Cyprus where thousands of Turkish settlers from Anatolia have seriously damaged the prospects of a peaceful solution to the island’s problems. I was the only Brit on the EP’s contact group with the Turkish north. Even Turk! ish Cypriots objected to the impact of people from Anatolia.) 3.  The EU is a secretive, deceitful organisation. It employs 3000 secret committees to "advise" it on policy.  We do not know who these people are, nobody elected them, we don’t know what agendas they work to, how much money they have at their disposal, and we cannot sack them.  Yet they are the driving force behind all the regulations and directives. How else do you imagine the EU could come up with such minute detail in its so-called "laws”?  It took over three years to force the Commission to admit these committees existed, and finally we got the names. They are all now listed on my website. Worse, the EU provides massive funding to a long list of NGOs who campaign for various “improvements” in life. We have scores of examples of these same EU-funded campaign groups then “persuading” the EU to introduce legislation to deal with an issue in a way the EU wanted to legislate in the first place. The Commi! ssion then says it has responded to public demand. Climate change is a classic example., 4  The European Parliament which provided me with a grandstand seat for the last five years, is an elaborate charade, designed to give an illusion of democratic accountability. It is a sham. We could neither propose nor repeal legislation.  We were a talking shop occasionally able to tinker around the edges of what the Commission had already decided. The electors are conned every time there is an election. They think they are electing members who can make a difference. The most we can do is ask questions, raise doubts in the minds of officials, and report back to our constituents. It is not a sovereign parliament and is not intended to be. 5.  The ultimate goal is a single federated United States of Europe.  Be in no doubt whatsoever. It is all in the treaties, even from Rome in 1956.  Of all the legislation now passed by our government in Westminster, over 80% comes from Brussels. If it is in the form of a Regulation, the Houses of Parliament must rubber stamp it into law and cannot alter so much as a comma. If it is a Directive, Westminster has some discretion about how the new law shall be enacted. But it must enact. For what it is worth, I think the current, far-too-young and inexperienced generation of Members of the House of Commons regards the EU as a political crutch. It takes away the need to think and take tough decisions in the interests of the people of GB. I also agree with former President Gorbachev that the EU is the old Soviet Union in new Western clothing. The Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky also agreed. He identified 20 parallels between the two. They, too, are on my website. Finally, and staying with that theme, I add one contrast between the USSR and the EU.  The USSR used to kill its opponents. The EU buys them. Which completes the circle and we are back to corruption and snouts in troughs. I stand by every word.   To respond to, or comment on this Email, please email ashley.mote@btconnect.com