Cost of MEPs another good reason to leave EU (From Wirral Globe)
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Cost of MEPs another good reason to leave EU
12:59pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in Letters
THE revelation that Euro MPs cost three times as much as Westminster MPs is to my mind another reason why Britain should leave the EU.
The appalling cost of running the European Parliament has been exposed in a written reply from the government to Lord Stoddart.
This has revealed that the annual cost of an MP is £590,000, while an MEP hits the taxpayer to the tune of £1.79m per year.
The vast cost of the European Parliament, replete with trips to Strasbourg and translation into a smorgasbord of languages, ramps up the costs.
Of course one might say that these differentials are right and proper.
Given that three quarters of our laws are now made in Brussels, perhaps it is apt that MEPs get three times as much as our Westminster friends.
Meanwhile UKIP MEPs are campaigning to make all British Euro-MPs a zero cost to the taxpayer by removing ourselves from the EU. And the latest revelation makes that all the more important.
Philip Griffiths, North West Chairman, UK Independence Party.
Hugo1008 says...
10:49am Fri 25 Jan 13
In Wirral a Cabinet of 10 Labour Councilors make all he major decisions the other 50 odd just rubber stamp whatever according to their Political Party Dictation.
National Parliament has 650 overpaid Members of Parliament, again they do as they are told by the Party Political whips following decisions by a Cabinet of mainly Multi Millionairs.
How is that Democracy, between the entire Cabinet they represent less than a 10 percent of the voting population on this small set of islands.
America or the U.S.A. have 100 Senators who effectively manage and run an entire Continent that covers more of the Earths surface that 10 thousand Britain's, Scotland's, Ireland,s and Wales put together and a population to match.