Outrage at Europe’s £260,000 MEP party

mkpdavies · 09-01-2005, 09:46 AM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...431382,00.html

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THE European parliament has been condemned for spending £262,000 on a party to toast the new European Union constitution in Strasbourg this week.
Conservative and UK Independence party MEPs have expressed “moral outrage” at the cost. Confidential parliamentary documents reveal that £25,000 will be spent on inviting two grands penseurs (thinkers) and 20 grandes plumes (columnists) from states holding referendums on the constitution.

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MEPs will be drinking champagne and spending £262,000 while people are struggling to find water purification tablets in the tsunami region,” he said. “We should be sending this money to southeast Asia.”

At least UKIP got a mention, even if they went to a pro-EU Tory for their quotes!

UKIP MAN · 09-01-2005, 10:21 AM

If you want to join in with the:

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Conservative and UK Independence party MEPs have expressed "moral outrage"

GO TO:

http://www4.europarl.eu.int/registre....cfm?langue=EN

You can also express anything else that you dont agree with to do with the EU

There is a slight problem, You cannot put your Country down there is no Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England to choose from!

As for Name some times I'm Tony Blair, sometimes I'm Michael Howard. Depends how Im feeling...

Split personality :twisted: :evil:

Bobby-Veritas's Boy · 09-01-2005, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by UKIP MAN

If you want to join in with the:

Quote:

Conservative and UK Independence party MEPs have expressed "moral outrage"

GO TO:

http://www4.europarl.eu.int/registre....cfm?langue=EN

You can also express anything else that you dont agree with to do with the EU

There is a slight problem, You cannot put your Country down there is no Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England to choose from!

As for Name some times I'm Tony Blair, sometimes I'm Michael Howard. Depends how Im feeling...

Split personality :twisted: :evil:

Thanks for that web address I've asked for a grant so that I can travell to their headquarters and watch how they work, I said two weeeks should be long enough, looking forward to my free holiday now, if only they were stupid enough to give me the money, if they do I'll send you a postcard

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