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"Mr President, in January 2014 the final restrictions will be lifted on immigration into Britain from Romania and Bulgaria. A further 29 million people will be given the automatic right of entry, and it is estimated that this will result in at least 50 000 extra immigrants per year over the next five years.
Britain is already overwhelmed and swamped with immigration because, as a member of the European Union, we have surrendered our right to control it. The British have nothing against Bulgarians or anyone else: we do not blame them for wanting to better their lives. But why do so many Bulgarians want to leave their country? Bulgaria is a desperately poor country under the control of criminals. Let me quote from the New York Times: ‘Politics is played to the death in Bulgaria, where the lives of politicians can be as cheap as spent bullets and murky business groups wage a murderous struggle for their cut of everything from real estate deals to millions in European aid’. Atanas Atanasov, a former counter-intelligence chief, has said, ‘Other countries have the mafia; in Bulgaria the mafia have the country’.
How can democracy prosper under these conditions? There is a lack of a free media and press, a corrupt judiciary and legal system, widespread electoral fraud and criminal control of business. It is no surprise that many Bulgarians will choose to move somewhere else. One good thing that the EU did do was to suspend payments to Bulgaria. It is not right to send millions in aid for their criminals to plunder and make them richer. I feel desperately sorry for decent Bulgarians, but I feel even sorrier for my own country, which is being destroyed by membership of the European Union. The British political establishment is dedicated – or seems dedicated – to turning Britain into a third-world country. Britain cannot solve Bulgaria’s problems by importing Bulgarians."@en1
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