IT IS generally accepted that as much as 80 percent of Parliament's lawmaking powers are now firmly in the hands of the European Union.

This unelected and unsackable political elite in Brussels is riddled with corruption, nepotism and fraud.

The admission by the European Commission that they have reserved 19.5 billion euros of taxpayers' money in their 2003 accounts for their own pensions has shocked many people.

MEPs have also just rejected an attempt to clean up the scam involving their own expenses.

MEP Chris Davies has said this has 'given the all-clear to embezzlement'.

The transfer of all our law-making powers to Brussels by all three political parties has been done by stealth without seeking a mandate for that from the British people.

The proposed EU Constitution would irrevocably make European Union law paramount over that of our Westminster Parliament.

In the next session of Parliament it is being proposed that a Private Member will introduce a Bill to restore sovereignty to our elected MPs, who have for centuries been entrusted with it by the people for the lifetime of a Parliament.

I would like to know whether all five candidates, if elected as MP for Tatton, would vote in favour of such a Sovereignty Bill.

DON BRIGGS

Mereheath Park

Knutsford