Tuesday, April 24, 2007

You must pay too

The European Parliament is the world's only parliament that has two seats (Strasbourg and Brussels), and the secretariat is in Luxembourg. The price we, European taxpayers, pay for this grotesque second seat, the Strasbourg seat, is £206 million (US$280 million) a year; that is, we would save that much money if the EP had only one seat. However, this is never going to happen.

This amount of cash - £206 million (US$280 million) a year - is not the only price we pay, TBH. For example, those who want to visit Strasbourg must book hotel rooms several months before we go there.

And what is the European Parliament?

It is supposed to mislead the European people to think that they are the ones governing the EU, which they are not. The EU police state is undemocratic, and therefore no one can be surprised that the European Commission and the EP ignore the famous petition signed by more than 1 million people
calling the EU to terminate the EP's second seat, even though the EC promised not to ignore it. The governments of the EU member states are ignoring us also, even the EC, the EP and our national governments are supposed to represent us. Indeed, the President of the European Parliament has said he will not allow the Parliament to debate about this. That means Eurocrats are not willing to not only terminate the Strasbourg seat of the EP, but even TALK about the EP's second seat.

Who can trust the EU to be willing to talk about anything if they're unwilling to talk even about reducing expenditures on bureaucracy?

Funny! They demand that we, the citizens of European states, drive less, while their limousines, which they ride every year from Brussels to Strasbourg and then from Strasbourg to Brussels emit more CO2 every year than all the cars owned by all Britons combined.

The EU should be dissolved.

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