WINNING THE EUROLOTTERY!

No, I haven't! If I had, I would be writing this under a foreign sun, I can assure you.

I refer to the news that European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump. Even as the icy winds of economic recession blows across Europe, the Eurocrats reward themselves at our expense.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

Eurocrats will get the 3.7 per cent pay rise despite negative or near to zero rates of inflation across Europe, soaring unemployment, falling wages and austerity measures in most national public sectors.

Despite never having been elected to public office, Lady Ashton will now earn over £52,000 more than Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister.

Unlike the Eurocrats, most British public sector workers, including front line doctors and nurses, are facing pay freezes as the government reins in public spending that has been bloated by bank bailouts.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

Isn't life grand when you're on the Euro-train? Is it any wonder that the endorsement of Lisbon brought so much good cheer? 

Let me tell you something. The EU is way beyond ANY prospect of reform. It is a corrupt anti-democratic malignancy that is reducing Nation States to parochail sub-offices. The unelected Eurocrats, like Ashton, personify just how grotesque it all is.  We should get OUT of it. 

Comments

[Colm]

They will probably give us the 'L'Oreal' answer as to why they should get these big pay rises.