Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-10-04-Speech-2-037-000"
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"en.20161004.4.2-037-000"2
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"Mr President, today we see yet another example of the madness of freedom of movement and the associated European Union immigration system – a system that totally fails to discriminate between a European Union citizen with an unblemished record and one who has already been a menace in his or her own country. Legal aid is a justifiable financial mechanism to support those of insufficient means to enable them to achieve justice through a national legal and court system. It becomes completely open to abuse when the borderless European Union actually encourages the free movement of criminals and crimes.
In the UK alone, British courts are dealing with over 700 notifications involving European Union migrants each week – that is an increase of more than 40% over the past five years – and 12% of the United Kingdom prison population are now foreign nationals. I will not even try to estimate or get the figures for those on bail.
Many of these individuals already have criminal records and, once in court, they milk the system. It is not just the United Kingdom system they are milking, it is every court system because of the bizarre situation we are in. In the United Kingdom, the cost of translation services alone is now a significant burden for United Kingdom courts.
No one is denying anyone justice. Justice should mean justice, but national justice should come first and United Kingdom citizens’ eligibility and entitlement to legal aid should not be sacrificed to a European Union dictate."@en1
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