THE sparse turnout for the European Union elections demonstrates absolutely the contempt the British have for the EU and MEPs.

So why does the prime minister and the other sinister europhiles keep trying to drag us deeper into Europe?

Could it be that the EU is only another stage on the long march towards a global conglomerate - as the Common Market, the European Economic Community, the European Community were stages on that march.

These were foisted upon us by stealth, whereby the socialist philosophy dictates that the better off nations will subsidise those less well.

Eventually we all end up impoverished slaves with no nations and no sense of our identities

N Charnley,

Chesterfield Road,

Blackpool.

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