British Democracy Forum - View Single Post - Kilroy-Silk asks voters if they want Turkey in the EU.

Anthony Butcher · 22-09-2004, 12:28 PM

From an email group. No source available, sorry:

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KILROY-SILK LEICESTER SPEECH TONIGHT:
WRITE TO YOUR M.P. IF YOU DON’T WANT TURKEY ADMITTED TO THE E.U.

Robert Kilroy-Silk, M.E.P. for the East Midlands, will use a speech tonight at Stocking Farm Social Club, Leicester, to call on voters to let their M.P.s know if they want Turkey to be admitted to the European Union. His comments follow recent revelations that the number of visitors to the U.K. from the eight eastern European countries admitted to the E.U. in May appears to have risen more than threefold this year. In July 2003, the number of visitors from the eight new E.U. countries was 61,000. In July this year, the figure had leapt to 191,000.

Mr Kilroy-Silk will tell a public meeting at 7.30pm, being held to launch the new Leicester City Branch of the U.K. Independence Party, that admitting Turkey - with its 80 million population - to the E.U. would lead to large-scale Turkish immigration and exacerbate cultural differences in British towns. He will tell members of the audience that a recent leaked government internal report had noted that uncontrolled immigration was putting intolerable pressures - and causing ‘social breakdown’ - in towns in Britain including some ‘not far away from Leicester’ [Peterborough]. He will severely criticise the government for not consulting British people about this key issue which will affect all our futures.

Mr Kilroy-Silk will warn that admitting Turkey will also mean that British people - of all races - would have to pay the cost of this immigration, for example through lower pensions. “It will also put severe extra pressures on housing, health and social services, schools and transport”, he will say. He will conclude by urging people to write to their MP. He said: “If you are prepared to put up with - and pay for - all the consequences of admitting Turkey to the E.U., then fine. Tell the government. However, if you are not, if you are concerned about possible social breakdown in your neighbourhood, if you are concerned about the extra costs, then I suggest make your views known now by writing to your local M.P.

Mr Kilroy-Silk will be visiting Asian radio station MA TV in Leicester at 5pm and then go on to Stocking Hall Farm Social Club, Marwood Road, Leicester, where he will meet with senior UKIP officials from the Region at 6.30pm to discuss the General Election campaign and then go on to address a public meeting at 7.30pm at which the new Leicester City Branch of UKIP will be formed. For contacts, please see below. A more detailed summary of Mr Kilroy-Silk’s speech is attached.

I really don't understand what the rush to get Turkey INTO phpbb_the EU is about. Turkey is no where near the level of "officialdom" required for EU membership, surely? Turkey is noted for its human rights abuses which will make it impossible for them to comply with and enforce EU law.

Here is a report released today detailing continuing police torture of suspects.

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Inadequate supervision of police officers allows torture and ill-treatment to continue in Turkey despite the country’s introduction of comprehensive legal safeguards, Human Rights Watch said today