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"Mr President, I speak from a UK perspective. We have a long and proud history of accepting people from elsewhere, especially those fleeing political and religious persecution.
In a time when there were no schools or hospitals, and electricity and public transport were non-existent, newcomers made their own way; but now they need these facilities, and we, the most densely-crowded country in the EU, are struggling to cope. That is no good for anyone, and we certainly cannot provide the social security they need.
In these difficult times, we cannot provide properly for those who have been paying their taxes in the UK throughout their working lives; we cannot go on taking in people. So the suggestions in this report are impossible. Even my own government, which is in favour of the EU, is concerned that the number of proposals in this report are overly bureaucratic.
We cannot regularise illegal immigrants. That would open the door to a flood of unmanageable proportions. Will the UK suddenly be expected to accept great numbers of Bulgarians and Romanians after 1 January next year? Especially after the Commission document presented to the Committee on Employment last April, which demands that Bulgarians or Romanians seeking work must be given prior claim over a third-country national. That excludes people from the British Commonwealth, who the rapporteur now thinks should go to the US instead.
It is also discrimination which is outlawed by the Lisbon Treaty. I do not think it is right to take in people for menial work; that is exploitation. Skilled workers from Eastern Europe may be welcome, but they are exactly what their own country needs to build their economy and prosperity. That is not fair. I do not want to see poor countries in Europe.
In truth, is not this report part of a programme to force people to move around the EU with financial assistance from the Commission, mixing up the peoples of Europe so that its countries disappear, to be replaced by a single state called Europe?"@en1
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