THE draft Charter of Human Rights currently much criticised by a wide variety of organisations, turns out to be a rehash of a document produced by the EU some years ago. Only then it was called Draft Constitution of the European Union.

This so-called charter promises all sorts of rights which only member states have the resources to deliver. However, its last un-numbered clause says: This Charter does not imply any right to do anything to destroy the rights set out in it. And that is the key: the purpose is to create the crime of Euro-treason.

The rights include the right to vote and stand as a candidate for the European Parliament. So, any person campaigning to leave the EU so removing that right would be in breach of the charter. Couple this morsel with another EU ruling, that (in effect) free speech can be restricted if it suits the EU to do so and it is clear that by using these techniques the EU is capable of banning those persons and political parties it does not like. Shades of Stalin.

Members of the European Parliament recently voted that the EU should have powers to ban political parties it did not like. They also voted to extend the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice without limit.

And all three of our main parties seem quite happy that Britain is slowly but surely being absorbed into a European superstate.

MICHAEL MORTON

Bruce Street, Rodbourne