b'basis for comparison. Nonetheless, it is hardAs former European Commissioner Frits to understand just how it is that with 145Bolkestein has stated, Turkey is too big, too vessels, Turkey cannot police the six milespoor, too different ever realistically to be a between the Turkish coast and Lesbos, frommember of the EU. where there is effectively visa-free access throughout the EU.In the European Parliament, an amendment (April 18, 2018) tocancel all Pre-Accession None of this changes the basic facts:Funding to Turkey lost by 588 votes to 88.97% of the landmass of Turkey is locatedTurkey becoming an EU member state was in Asia - not EuropeBritish Government policy at the time of theTurkeys population of 75 million isreferendum. It was entirely valid for the Leave projected by the World Bank to becomeCampaign to make Turkeys membership of 94.6 million by 2050the EU an issue. Indeed it should have beenTurkeys GDP per person is less than halfdone before.of that that we enjoy in the UK 3.2. The UK Conservative Party and more countries joining the EU (Enlargement) Should the establishment get the countriesfor the UK, also acts as a major incentive for outlined in Table 20 below admitted to themigration westwards. In comparison,the use EU, eventually transitional controls on freeof French or German as a second language movement will have to be lifted. It can beis minimal; this acts as a disincentive to confidently predicted there will then be (toemigration to France and Germany. quote Ross Perot on NAFTA) a giant sucking sound. Many citizens of these countries willDepressingly, the completely reckless and emigrate to the UK as long as free movementill-thought-outpolicy of more member states remains possible, and very sensibly fromcoming into the EU was a policy not only their point of view. The widespread andof the Conservatives but also of the Liberal increasing use of English as a secondDemocrats and Labour.language, although a commercial strength 45'