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Where the hell to start on this topic? Let me just give an illustration of what is wrong with the whole *?!!*?*!* works.
Let’s take a look at the people who have served as our European Commissioners
First Chris Patten who got the job as compensation for losing his job in Hong Kong on the Chinese takeover
Next was Neil Kinnock - failed politician, twice rejected by the British electorate, Welsh wind-bag, the only person from his family in a thousand generations ( i.e. since the stone age) to attend University.
Following the sacking of the whole Commission he was appointed to stop the fraud, sleaze and corruption endemic in The EU.
His main contribution seems to have been to sack the whistle blower who pointed out failures in the accounting systems that left the multi million pound budgets open to fraud..
Auditors have refused to sign off EU accounts for the last seventeen years!
His whole family have since joined on the EU gravy train taking a combined income and expenses tally exceeding £500,000.
Next up we have that paragon of virtue Peter Mandelson, twice sacked from government posts for being economical with the truth. First over loans from Geoffrey Robinson totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds and secondly from the fall out of the Hinduja passports scandal.
To be fair in addition to riding the gravy train he did quite a good job as Trade Commissioner.
We can however welcome the return of Peter Mandelson who now has so many titles he must be totally confused as to what his job is supposed to be. Perhaps that is the whole idea, keep him so busy he can’t get into too much mischief!
Where the hell to start on this topic? Let me just give an illustration of what is wrong with the whole *?!!*?*!* works.
Let’s take a look at the people who have served as our European Commissioners
First Chris Patten who got the job as compensation for losing his job in Hong Kong on the Chinese takeover
Next was Neil Kinnock -
Following the sacking of the whole Commission he was appointed to stop the fraud, sleaze and corruption endemic in The EU.
His main contribution seems to have been to sack the whistle blower who pointed out failures in the accounting systems that left the multi million pound budgets open to fraud..
Auditors have refused to sign off EU accounts for the last seventeen years!
His whole family have since joined on the EU gravy train taking a combined income and expenses tally exceeding £500,000.
Next up we have that paragon of virtue Peter Mandelson, twice sacked from government posts for being economical with the truth. First over loans from Geoffrey Robinson totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds and secondly from the fall out of the Hinduja passports scandal.
To be fair in addition to riding the gravy train he did quite a good job as Trade Commissioner.
We can however welcome the return of Peter Mandelson who now has so many titles he must be totally confused as to what his job is supposed to be. Perhaps that is the whole idea, keep him so busy he can’t get into too much mischief!
Moving on,as a consolation for Tony Bliar missing out as chief honcho,we were given the second highest position in the EU, the office of ‘High Representative’, the equivalent of Foreign Minister.
Obviously to fill an office of such importance we had to select someone of impeccable character and outstanding ability. Step forward Baroness Ashton.
Who? No I’d never heard of her either!
How on earth did a local bureaucrat with no previous experience in international affairs end up as the most powerful woman in the country?
As High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy her brief includes running a diplomatic corps (the European External Action Service)
Which employs 7,000 staff and maintains 130 EU embassies around the world.
Its operating budget of £45 billion is more than 20 times that of our own Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Obviously a job of such importance carries a commensurate salary package of £239,000, largely tax-free. That’s not including the entertainment allowance, housing allowance, two chauffeurs and private cabinet of advisers, each with their own private office, and pension rights.
So! What qualifies her to fill this most important role? She went from being the treasurer of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament via a couple of quangos to the Hertfordshire Health Authority. She was then made a Labour Life peer and became Leader of the House of Lords. Her main achievement in the Upper Chamber was - as she boasted to MEP’s during her hearing - to steer through the Lisbon Treaty without conceding the referendum that had been promised by all three parties in their election manifestoes. All this without once facing the voters.
The whole European set-up operates in exactly the same way. The whole of the bloated bureaucracy is composed of officials sent by the various countries without any reference to the electorate.The 27 commissioners are totally unaccountable and if any country has the temerity to ask for a referendum they simply do not accept the peoples verdict if it goes the wrong way, Hence Ireland.
Since the whole system is designed to be anti-democratic we can look forward to all of these powerful top jobs being filled by second-rate nonentities with just the occasional worthy individual shining through.
In such a bureaucracy the person who gets the job is always the compromise candidate, Peters’ Principle comes into play, everyone gets promoted to their own particular level of incompetence.
God Save the Queen!
Obviously to fill an office of such importance we had to select someone of impeccable character and outstanding ability. Step forward Baroness Ashton.
Who? No I’d never heard of her either!
How on earth did a local bureaucrat with no previous experience in international affairs end up as the most powerful woman in the country?
As High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy her brief includes running a diplomatic corps (the European External Action Service)
Which employs 7,000 staff and maintains 130 EU embassies around the world.
Its operating budget of £45 billion is more than 20 times that of our own Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Obviously a job of such importance carries a commensurate salary package of £239,000, largely tax-
So! What qualifies her to fill this most important role? She went from being the treasurer of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament via a couple of quangos to the Hertfordshire Health Authority. She was then made a Labour Life peer and became Leader of the House of Lords. Her main achievement in the Upper Chamber was -
The whole European set-
Since the whole system is designed to be anti-
In such a bureaucracy the person who gets the job is always the compromise candidate, Peters’ Principle comes into play, everyone gets promoted to their own particular level of incompetence.
God Save the Queen!