If Nigel Farage is wondering where his mail went from the last strasbourg EP session, he might be interested to know that I took it outside and BURNT it. No christmas cards for Nige - not this year.
Actually, he probably wouldn't. I can't imagine Nigel bothers to check his postbox all too often, bi-annually perhaps. Which is fair enough really. I have a hard enough time getting my head around the paradox of anti-system parties, that the notion of anti-Europe MEP's is just too mindbending to even contemplate at this stage. But what a job. All they have to do all day is complain and criticise, and nobody listens to them, but of course they're not bothered because of the utter contempt in which they hold the whole processto begin with. No tricky negotiations, no constructive contributions, just systematic opposition. Endless eye-rolling - what? not another resolution, surely! Why are they still trying?!
I'm only jealous, really. And yet it must be disheartening, somewhere. I can only compare it to how I'd feel working at - say, the IMF or World Bank, an institution which I feel could only be improved if a wrecking ball was taken to its headquarters. It can't even be reformed because the foundations are just all - wrong. But Nigel appears undeterred, despite, one would imagine, holding analoguous views. One can only assume there must be something in it for him.
David Cameron's pledge to pull the tories out of the "Federalist" EPP group might be something he lives to regret. One paper claims he fails to realise that most of the Conservative MEPs "went native long ago." To me that's pushing it a bit, I think it's safe to say they've maintained a "healthy" degree of euro-skepticism and sense of their english superiority. But let's face it, Cameron, with UKIP around, especially as the contingent they are among UK members, there really is no room for europe-haters among the conservatives, they need another selling point because that one is well and truly spoken for.
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