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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Wednesday, September 01, 2004 

What has happened to UKIP's MEPs?

Day after day I receive Google News Alerts on UKIP and day after day there is no mention of any of UKIP's MEPs. Today's crop of seven items had but one mention to Bloom's fridge remark. Yet EU politics are frothing as never before. This letter from one local paper is typical of the efforts being made across the country by other UKIP officials, ordinary UKIP party members and other dedicated Eurorealists, but from the 11 + 1 MEP comes nothing. Disgraceful! Read the full letter from Ian Upton the UK Independence Party’s North West media officer, partly quoted below, from this link.

Is Westminster just a museum?

I DON’T know which brand of rose-tinted spectacles Chris Davies MEP views Brussels through but they must be very expensive for him to make such ridiculous claims when comparing the European Parliament to our own.

He says it is a place for “MEPs to behave as grown-up politicians who can secure major amendments in new laws”.

Is this the same European governance that, unlike our parliament, hasn’t had its accounts signed off for the last nine years? Or should our own parliament follow in its footsteps like “grown-up” politicians and let our government’s financial accountability go to the dogs? Is this really Mr Davies’s vision of the EU parliament “doing a remarkably good job”?

It also worries me that he talks of only “securing amendments”, rather than influencing the proposal of them, when at a time we are bombarded on a daily basis with thousands of new EU laws and legislation, some of which is ravaging our countries’ potential for enterprise by increasing the cost base to business by up to 30 per cent.

posted by Martin |8:58 AM
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