YOUR readers may be surprised to know that under the auspices of the EU’s Common European Asylum System, Britain will soon be forced to grant the right to live, work and claim benefits to 1 in 8 of all asylum seekers arriving in the EU regardless of where their first point of landing happened to be.

The new rules say that countries will be forced to take these migrants or face huge fines.

Whatever one’s views of asylum seekers and economic migrants, our own Parliament should lay down the rules governing the acceptance of these people, not an unelected Commission in Brussels.

This is just one more example of the extent to which power has been transferred from Westminster to Brussels.

Eighty five per cent of our laws are now made in Brussels by people we have not elected and whom we cannot remove at the ballot box, so while our country retains the symbols of democracy, the power has been surrendered.

This is reflected in the fact that this year our Parliament in Westminster will sit for only 128 days to enact a meagre legislative programme and any laws they enact must be compatible with EU law, otherwise they will be struck down.

No wonder our MPs are busy with their allowances, they have little else to do.

All three of the major parties have sold out to the EU dictatorship.

If the people of Bolton want to live in a sovereign nation again, I would exhort them to vote for a party, at the coming elections, which will give us a referendum on our continued membership of the EU.

David Lonsdale Malaga