Dear Editor,
Conspiracy theory gone mad, is all one can say about the letter from one of the remaining UKIP MEP, (Graham Booth, p.6, April 10).
If the founding fathers of our European Union had really wanted to create in secrecy a "a superstate run by bureaucrats", would they have provided for an elected Parliament to be at the heart of its decision taking procedure? Unlike any international body you care to think of, the EU, for all its faults, takes its decisions through a procedure requiring the approval of elected parliamentarians and elected governments from each of its Member States.
Anyone who takes even a cursory look at its structure knows that the European Commission, far from being the all-powerful bureaucracy portrayed by UKIP MEPs, only has the right to propose, not decide on European legislation.
Run by bureaucrats? Only if ministers or MEPs, like UKIP MEPs, aren't doing their job!
Yours,
Richard Corbett
Labour MEP for Yorkshire & Humber
Blenheim Terrace, Leeds |