UKIP roll call costs
January 21st, 2008
posted by Cptn
Having a go at UKIP can become tedious – there’s a certain ‘fish-in-a-barel’ mentality to spotting the holes in their raison d’etre – so it’s always nice when other people join in.
Here’s what South West MEP Graham Watson’s office sent through:
“MEPs from the United Kingdom Independence Party added £25,000 to the cost of the European Parliament’s business this week by demanding roll-call votes to record every vote held. These votes cost £300 each, bringing the total cost to the taxpayer to over £25,000.
Commenting on this move, South West MEP and EU Liberal Leader, Graham Watson said: ‘Once again, the anti-Europeans have shown what a waste of time and money their presence in Strasbourg is. I hope the voters will boot them out at the elections in June next year; by doing so they will save us all money.’ ”
We will just add that they are a waste of space in plenty of more places than just Strasbourg…
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3. Trixy | January 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
The costs are from the parliament services print out the results and put them all in the pigeon holes of the MEP. There is actually question about how much it costs, Toady has just used the figures that Richard Corbett decided to use.
I’m sorry you think that democracy should only happen if it’s cheap enough.
Toady Watson, stands up so much for the South West that sometimes he can’t even bring himself to speak in debates in English.
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