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Looking at the websites of several of the minor political parties putting up candidates for the June 4th EU elections in the UK (I’ve given up on the three major parties since they have such similar policies), I notice how the EU has become the scapegoat/whipping boy of far left and far right parties, blamed for every ill in our society today.

Let’s try to set the record straight by examining the claims one by one:

The far right claim the EU is responsible for uncontrolled immigration. Well yes and no. There is indeed free movement of people within the EU (with some temporary restrictions), but immigration from outside the EU is still controlled.

There is indeed a problem with cheap labor coming in from Eastern and Central Europe and taking jobs from British workers.

In most countries, take the United States for instance, things are well-ordered. They have a written Constitution, and each of the 50 states in the Union has a legislature. Also postal addresses are quite clear. If you live in Louisiana, for example, your postal address will be Louisiana (or La in its abbreviated format).

Here in the UK, everything is in a total state of chaos and disorder. We have no written Constitution for a start, and devolution has left England without a national Parliament or state legislature. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have either Parliaments or Assemblies, but these need to be regularized so that each country has a legislative authority with the same powers. Imagine the uproar if Texas had a State Capitol but poor old Louisiana next door only had a State Assembly with less powers, and New York State was governed directly by Washington, D.C.!