Pots in the Pension

By Derek Bennett

On the 22nd May 2014 people all across the European Union will be going to the polls to vote for their MEPs. This futile exercise is akin to the old saying of ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic!

Some MEPs will be gone and some coming in, none of them will have any real power or influence, their only function, at enormous cost to the taxpayers of Europe, is to provide the pretence that the EU is democratic. What each and everyone of these MEPs will get is a whopping great EU pension, paid for by people who struggle to make ends meet, due to the job losing bureaucratic actions of that undemocratic organisation.

Revealed in the press during April 2014 was the news that al MEPs are to receive a second, secret, EU pension at a cost of £187 million.  Some of the ex UK MEPs will be elevated to the House of Lords where they can influence votes on EU matters without the need to declare their EU pensions.  The only MEPs working to end this farce are UKIP MEPs who are prepared to make this sacrifice when they have been successful getting the UK out of the European Union.

This article first appeared in EU Realist and is reproduced with the permission of the editor.