17 February 2012
Daily Express slates Greedy MEPs after another pay rise
The article is linked here, there is little further this blog can add, other than to register its ongoing disgust. A quote:
The article is linked here, there is little further this blog can add, other than to register its ongoing disgust. A quote:
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GRASPING Euro MPs sparked fury last night by demanding a pay rise of up to three per cent Friday February 17,2012
By Martyn Brown
GRASPING Euro MPs sparked fury last night by demanding a pay rise of up to three per cent.
As the eurozone teeters on the brink of catastrophe and Britain is forced to tighten its belt, the shameless demand added to the growing clamour for us to pull out of the EU. The basic salary of an MEP is already £82,915 a year, compared with £64,766 for an MP at Westminster. Euro MPs can also rake in £360,000 in expenses.
If the three per cent budget increase is ratified in Brussels next month, MEPs would receive an extra £2,500 in pay and more lucrative expenses and pension entitlements. It would also add the equivalent of an extra £45million a year to the hugely inflated parliamentary budget, just as debt-ravaged Greece faces financial ruin.
The increase would bring the total cost of the army of MEPs and their hangers-on to a staggering £1.55billion next year.
It proves the juggernaut of EU excess shows no signs of slowing and will add more support to the Daily Express crusade for Britain to pull out of Europe.
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