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Tim Ackers has written an interesting article that reveals the wheeler dealing between government and the EU. On one hand that the UK is taking a stand on welfare benefits and immigration.. Hmmmm, however the EU has been criticised for distributing a booklet informing them how to claim benefits and how to settle in the UK according to their human rights.
The only way we can control immigration and the destructive bequests left to us by B'Liar and the Labour Government is "To get out of the EU"
This unbelievable promise that we will have a referendum "If the Conservatives win the next election in 2017"!!! does this government think we are that stupid! run the risk of depending on a flimsy promise that means nothing a 02romise will be broken and means nothing.
Inflated numbers can be expected next year the only way to get out of this stranglehold is to leave the EU as soon as we can.

We know that the all talk attempts to limit welfare payments to EU immigrants cannot be done, we are all EU citizens and EU Law prohibits
discrimination among its citizens , we were never asked whether we wanted it. Governments web site "Let Britain Decide " is a ploy 4 years from now...two years ago Cameron whipped his MP's to vote against a referendum. Governments are afraid of UKIP and the lies I hope will not wash with the British English population, next year our borders open up even more under current EU legislation and waiting until 2017 for a referendum "If the Cons are re elected is an affront to the Great British public.. Acker I take my hat off to you, we must fight the stranglehold that the EU has on us. Sadly I don't think the British public have got the bottle or interest for change.. Moan, moan but action came there none.. wake up before it is too late...

I'm trying, honest...

Do the anti EU brigade ever conflate the EU and the Europoean Commission for Human Rights (ECHR)? Very much so! Having hooked the audience with the "EU" epithet it is so much easier to spin their rants; that is what is happening here with Acker and Farage et al.

The EU, as the supranational body, has, through its Agency of Fundamental Rights, published the booklet as an aid to how the European Social Charter (ESC), part of ECHR, will impact on EU members from the new expansion. The rules are those of the ECHR not the EU, and the two organisations are distinct and different.

The UK was taken into the the revised (1996) European Social Charter by Tony Blair and the revisions continue to this day, hence the need for updates. The UK could, if it wished, leave the ESC.

One other thing. The booklet is not being handed out in its thousands on the streets of Sofia and Bucharest, as the authors would have us believe, but it is available on the internet.