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Sir,

It’s not surprising to see why confusion rages about the EU, even amongst those within its own circles. It seems that even Theresa May, the Home Secretary, is now having grave reservations about this undemocratic institution.

 

Over the past few days she said that ‘Britain must quit the European Court of Human Rights’ blaming them for the long legal battles to deport Muslim fanatics like Abu Hamza and Abu Quatada. Not only was her judgment right, it would also be right if she said exactly the same thing about every other battle lost to this country because of the EU.

Letter:  Brexit will stop EU interference

 

30 April 2016  

In denouncing the continuing scaremongering stories of the inners, claiming they are all ‘nonsense’ – she also added ‘nor do I believe that the sky will fall in if we vote to leave.’ Better late than never, but she is beginning to wake up.

 

And so is, believe it or not, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president. He is now fully persuaded that the EU have passed too many laws that should have been left for national governments to decide. Yes, his awakening conscience is rightly telling him that the 75-80% laws which were legislated by the EU should not really have been passed by them.

What he said over the last few days is, to say the least, quite staggering: ‘I think that one of the reasons that European citizens are stepping away from the European project is that we are interfering in too many domains of their private lives. And too many domains where the member states are better placed to take action and pass legislation.’

 

To say they are ‘interfering’ must surely be the greatest understatement of the century. It is because of their gross interference that, even as I write this, they have launched a legal challenge against…wait for it… Britain over its introduction two years ago of a road toll for trucks, arguing it discriminates against foreign drivers. No, I haven’t made this up.

 

I also wonder how many people know that the unelected European Commission, which runs the EU, regularly rejects attempts by Britain to reform the Union and that we have never, since 1996 when records began, managed to block one single piece of EU legislation.

 

We must now all wake up. A vote for Brexit on 23 June 2016 will not only restore UK Parliamentary democracy and take back control from the unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels, it will also free us of all EU interference – for ever.

 

Donald J Morrison

85 Old Edinburgh Road

Inverness.