WHILST elected members of governing bodies must have remit to govern successfully, they must remember that complete power has now been delegated to them and they are there to represent the people.

In the case of the European Parliament, I wonder how many people actually know who their MEP is and how often an MEP does consult the electors.

Why, for example, does MEP Karim consider that as chairman of the Friends of Turkey group, he can step up pressure to admit Turkey to the EU, as reported in the Lancashire Telegraph?

Most people know very little about Turkey.

It is mainly in Asia Minor and is not, as the MEP states, ‘a vital partner of the rest of Europe’.

Further, its population would then have direct access to an already over-burdened Western Europe, especially the UK.

As for offering a bridge to the Muslim countries, do we really want that?

The existing bridges seem to offer only one-way advantages and by sheer weight of numbers the Muslims seem to be attaining the goals in Europe that they narrowly failed to do by conquest earlier in history.

There are no people so blind as those who will not see. My colleagues and I are completely against Turkey being invited into the EU.

R BRACEWELL, Burnley.