Any idea what UKIP MEPs are doing?

mkpdavies · 02-08-2007, 08:55 AM

I have no idea. All I can hear is the wind blowing and see a few tumblweeds blowing around.

Nige manages to get the odd comment in the media now and then, but that's about it.

Now it could be swan syndrome, where it all looks quite above water, while a frenzy of productive activity goes on below. However I am beginning to wonder if the swan is dead.

Anyone care guide me away from this view?

Millennium3 · 02-08-2007, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies

I have no idea. All I can hear is the wind blowing and see a few tumblweeds blowing around.

Nige manages to get the odd comment in the media now and then, but that's about it.

Now it could be swan syndrome, where it all looks quite above water, while a frenzy of productive activity goes on below. However I am beginning to wonder if the swan is dead.

Anyone care guide me away from this view?

It is August.

mkpdavies · 02-08-2007, 10:20 AM

I'll see if I can get that excuse by my boss for doing squat.

So they are writing up battle guidlines for branches, policy documents, web articles etc etc, ready for deployment when it isn't August then?

rjt · 02-08-2007, 10:28 AM

Are you suggesting they have gone native and been seduced by the Brussels Gravy train?

How widely reported do you think their actions would be even if each one of them was going at it round the clock? At the end of the day the average man in the street might talk about getting a referendum on the new treaty but essentailly he wants to feel better off, have a clean hospitial to go to when sick, decent education for his kids etc. How importnt is the EU parlaiment to the average man on the street.

John Doe · 02-08-2007, 10:32 AM

I wonder whether many people ever go to 'their' MEP (or one of them) in the way that constituents take up matters with their MPs? (Aside from the usual eccentrics who petition everyone.) Is there such a thing as an MEP's consituency work? It is difficult to imagine this happening on a regional basis, and for a parliament that no one understands.

SponPlague · 02-08-2007, 11:04 AM

Ahem. Has anyone actually bothered to look at the MEPs websites as a prima-facie source of information?

Barboo · 02-08-2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies

So they are writing up battle guidlines for branches, policy documents, web articles etc etc, ready for deployment when it isn't August then?

They haven't got time for that sort of thing! There's less than two years to mobilize the gullible who've been conned into believing the way out of the EU is to get lots more MEPs into it. They won't retain their seats at the next Euros by wasting time, energy and resources on nonsense like developing the party - from now on it'll have to be all hands to the gravy pumps!

mkpdavies · 02-08-2007, 11:35 AM

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Are you suggesting they have gone native and been seduced by the Brussels Gravy train?

No, I am just sugesting that there is not much evidence of any productive, useful work for the party or either the country at the moment.

Maybe as I said, that is because it is all secret and come a certain time and unstopable election machine could be unleashed upon the people of Britain.

Or the swan might be dead.

Andrew Constantine · 02-08-2007, 08:31 PM

The answer clearly has to be "Very well, thank you".

Interesting that no one has replied to an earlier post on MEPs' pension rights (25% for one term, 50% for two terms - for life!), I did not believe the story - despite the source of it - but no one has manged to knock the claim down yet.

Andrew Constantine

tito · 02-08-2007, 09:05 PM

Don't we have to wait for mid 2009 to hear Nigels grand plan?

02-08-2007, 08:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,604	Any idea what UKIP MEPs are doing? I have no idea. All I can hear is the wind blowing and see a few tumblweeds blowing around. Nige manages to get the odd comment in the media now and then, but that's about it. Now it could be swan syndrome, where it all looks quite above water, while a frenzy of productive activity goes on below. However I am beginning to wonder if the swan is dead. Anyone care guide me away from this view? __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,604	I'll see if I can get that excuse by my boss for doing squat. So they are writing up battle guidlines for branches, policy documents, web articles etc etc, ready for deployment when it isn't August then? __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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Andrew Constantine Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 912 Party: Free England Party	How are UKIP's MEPs doing? The answer clearly has to be "Very well, thank you". Interesting that no one has replied to an earlier post on MEPs' pension rights (25% for one term, 50% for two terms - for life!), I did not believe the story - despite the source of it - but no one has manged to knock the claim down yet. Andrew Constantine

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02-08-2007, 10:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
rjt Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Aldershot Posts: 5,292	Are you suggesting they have gone native and been seduced by the Brussels Gravy train? How widely reported do you think their actions would be even if each one of them was going at it round the clock? At the end of the day the average man in the street might talk about getting a referendum on the new treaty but essentailly he wants to feel better off, have a clean hospitial to go to when sick, decent education for his kids etc. How importnt is the EU parlaiment to the average man on the street.

02-08-2007, 10:32 AM	#5 (permalink)
John Doe Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 87	I wonder whether many people ever go to 'their' MEP (or one of them) in the way that constituents take up matters with their MPs? (Aside from the usual eccentrics who petition everyone.) Is there such a thing as an MEP's consituency work? It is difficult to imagine this happening on a regional basis, and for a parliament that no one understands.

02-08-2007, 11:04 AM	#6 (permalink)
SponPlague Uber Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Zurich Posts: 2,448	Ahem. Has anyone actually bothered to look at the MEPs websites as a prima-facie source of information?