From: Squadron Leader L Fellows

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Dr Evan Harris MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA								9 April 2001

Dear Dr Harris

I am writing to express my anger at hearing that the Sunderland greengrocer has been found guilty of a criminal offence for having sold bananas in pounds and ounces recently.

This court decision seems to confirm that EU directives take precedence over Acts of Parliament and has the most serious implications for the sovereignty of the British Parliament.  I am assured that the last Act of Parliament to be passed on the subject of Weights and Measures in Britain allowed the metric and imperial systems to exist side by side.

How is it that a law passed by the British people’s own democratically elected Parliament can be superseded by a directive of un-elected EU bureaucrats?

Imperial measures are a part of the culture of this country; even for those young people who have not learned them at school.  For people over 40, they are part of the very fabric of our interpretation of the world around us.  And, unlike obscure measures such as perches, bushels, pecks and poles, they have not fallen into disuse.  They were part of a vigorous living system that has been destroyed by the autocratic rule of Brussels.  As the only member of the EU not to use metric measures in every day life, Britain was bound to fall foul of the eternal rule-making of Brussels Eurocrats.  The culture of older British-born citizens is disappearing before their eyes.  It is a pity that we do not belong to the ethnic minorities; then none of the present politically-correct, moral weaklings who run our country would dare interfere with our culture.  At the very least, if our rulers had any consideration for the ethnic majority, they would have waited till the older ones among us had died out before tearing the heart out of our country.

The ruling against the Sunderland greengrocer illustrates that, in the present state of affairs, an EU directive can overrule an Act of Parliament.   So now we know; Britain is no  longer a sovereign nation, but a slave of a nascent European federal super-state.  Soon our Queen’s constitutional position will come under serious attacked by those who wish to create a new international and capitalist-loving Socialism.  With the monarchy abolished, the last bulwark of our constitutional protection will be dismantled and our Government, backed by the elected dictatorship which Parliament has become, will be able to hand us over to the United States of Europe.

Our rulers would be foolish to imagine that this will happen peacefully.  

In your role as a parliamentarian, I implore you to use what power you have to help force a debate on the future of Britain as a self-governing state while her sovereignty, and our way of life, can still be saved.

Yours sincerely