Britse Leden van het Europese Parlement zuiverden na EU- verdragsprotest

Vier Britse Leden van het Europese Parlement zijn gezuiverde honderden ponden voor het opvoeren van een protest van het EU- verdragsreferendum in het Europees Parlement geweest.

De voorzitter van het Europees Parlement, hans-Gert Pöttering, heeft de toelagen van Leden van het Europese Parlement betrokken bij de verstoring van het parlement laatste December gedokt.

Dozens Leden van het Europese Parlement, veel van hen van de Conservatieve partij en de Britse partij van de Onafhankelijkheid, onderbraken zaken in het parlement in Straatsburg door heckling en bij tegen de leiders van de EU te protesteren die het nieuwe EU- handvest van fundamentele rechten ondertekenden.

As Pöttering, José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European commission, and the Portuguese prime minister, José Socrates, signed the charter - which Britain says will not apply in the UK - the British-led band of Europhobic MEPs unveiled banners and T-shirts demanding a referendum on the EU treaty.

Nine MEPs face sanctions as a result, including British Conservative MEP Roger Helmer, independent MEP Jim Allister and Ukip’s Roger Knapman, who will all lose three days’ allowance. The MEPs’ daily allowance is €287.
Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom learned he will be fined two days’ allowance for his part in the fracas.

Gary Titley MEP, Labour’s leader in Europe, denounced the protest: “I hope we have seen the back of those bully-boy tactics. Democracy is about respecting each other.”

Bloom said: “A quarter of a million people voted for me to protest against the EU and I’m not going to stop doing that because a few Euro-nationalists decide to take away my pocket money.

“I was proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with MEPs from across Europe to protest at the repulsive behaviour of the European parliament.

“It’s probably hard for these chaps to understand because they’re a bit tight, but the people they have made suffer with these proposals are the small charities because that’s who I give my allowances to.”

Knapman said he was too long in the tooth to be told what to do by a German president.

Hélène Mulholland

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