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"Mr President, this place talks a lot about fundamental rights. The idea might be novel to some of the countries represented here, given their recent histories, but we have fundamental rights in England established over centuries. We recently celebrated the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a key milestone in that process. Our rights were further established under such things as Habeas Corpus, the English common law and the Bill of Rights of 1689, to name just three.
But the fundamental rights of the English are being destroyed and swept away by EU law. The EU is creating its own system of criminal law, a process which it euphemistically and laughably calls creating an area of freedom, security and justice. Well, it may be news to people here, but we have had one in the UK for centuries.
Under a European arrest warrant, for example, any British citizen can now be arrested and imprisoned on the basis of vague accusations, with no
evidence against them, and a British court is powerless to prevent this happening. Under the common recognition of fines and confiscation orders, an EU state may confiscate the assets of a British citizen without a British court having any power to prevent it. Soon it will be possible to compel British police forces to investigate British citizens on behalf of foreign police forces under the proposed European Investigation Order.
All of these are fundamental breaches of the Bill of Rights. If the British want to protect their own fundamental rights, then they need to leave the European Union. If you want to learn something about those rights, come and study the English system."@en1
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