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ONE HERE> Dear Mr [Fuego],
Thank you for contacting Mr Helmer regarding the EP Written Declaration
81 on improving road safety.
I can confirm that Mr Helmer will be signing Written Declaration 81, in
a bid to improve road safety.
Kind regards
Lydia Smith
Assistant to
Roger Helmer MEP
NOT ONE HERE>
Thank you for your message about Heavy Goods Vehicles and their inability
properly to detect other traffic such as cyclists. This would seem to lead
to a high proportion of accidents and fatalities which reliable sources
place at 14% of fatal collisions. It is a problem that needs to be resolved
and the technology is available.
However, I do not sign Written Declarations because they call on the
Commission to take action. This is totally unsatisfactory for me ,and
indeed most UKIP MEPs, because the Commission has not been elected by
anyone. We prefer all legislation to arise from elected Members of
Parliament because being elected means that they are accountable to the
people. The whole thrust of UKIP's policy is to remove the UK from the EU
so that our laws are made where they should be made, at Westminster. Our
MPs are much closer to the people than MEPs because we cover such a wide
area and because we have limited access to the Commission.
Since we are in the EU our own Government has given up and we now have 75%
of our laws forced on us by the EU. Out of the EU we could press our MPs to
introduce the necessary legislation for our Truck Drivers. Since good ideas
always spread, then this will find its way across Europe and blind spot
fatalities would reduce. Please think about the vast wealth of technical
innovations which have arisen over the centuries and which passed across
political boundaries without there being any kind of EU or Commission
involved.
In fact, the EU stands in the way of progress because all such developments
generated by the EU are immediately submerged in so much bureaucracy and red
tape as to reduce their effectiveness.
Please support UKIP in trying to restore proper accountability to
Westminster.
Yours sincerely
Derek Clark MEP