In reply to Chris Amos’s letter of November 21, I stand by my views on immigration (November 13).

Firstly, neither myself or UKIP are against Europe. We respect the sovereign states, peoples and cultures. We want them as friendly neighbours and to trade with them.

However, we are against being ruled by an unelected and corrupt organisation that is the EU project, which now dictates over 80 per cent of UK laws.

Secondly, the opening of borders is an EU policy which in turn is part of a larger plan. This would see the UK split into regions of the EU, which would then be a United States of Europe, something on which the UK electorate have been denied a vote.

Many people in the other EU states feel the same way as most Britons, as demonstrated by the Dutch and French electorate in voting “No” on the European Constitution and the Irish voting “No” to the Lisbon Treaty (the re-hashed EU Constitution).

Most people are waking up to the fact that the EU is anti-democratic and that our freedoms and liberties are quickly disappearing as unelected bureaucrats set about controlling our daily lives.

Some in continental Europe may have different views.

They might be happy to be ruled by a regime, such as the EU, which is similar to those that have undemocratically imposed their dictatorships and tyranny on them in the past. However, despite our own socialist Government’s determination to integrate with the EU, the majority of the British people don’t want this. We prefer our freedom and independence.

Finally, our EU membership costs British taxpayers a whopping £55billion a year — money that could be directly spent for the benefit of the British people.

Chris Amos and other Europhiles can believe their EU fantasies. The rest of us don’t.

Philip Griffiths North West chairman UK Independence Party