Yet again Lawrence Keeley opens his mouth and pontificates about immigration (The Argus, August 15) using unsubstantiated comments to garner popular appeal.
He has no understanding of the process and, in a similar vein to his comments about housing, fails to grasp that immigration and housing are not county council issues but fall within the remit of Parliament and the local district council.
Nigel Farage has already admitted that most Ukip candidates were entered into recent county council elections without any checking or verification. Numerous crackpot ideas have wasted council time in both East and West Sussex county councils, such as removing France from a map showing East Sussex’s location in regard to its neighbours and marine matters; in West Sussex Ukip wanted all symbols, such as EU flags, removed.
Whatever views one holds on the eurozone, it is a legal obligation at this time to recognise the European Union.
Roger Thomas, former chairman of East Sussex County Council
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