howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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bit of a scare story here, the likelihood is that only a quarter of mep's will be eurosceptic and at the end of the day the commissioners will still be there running the show.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/31/eu-unite-sceptics-populists-italian-pmGuest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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A scare story ? You must mean scary in the sense that the EU Parliament will not be sceptic enough.
It would be great if all MEPs were thoroughly Eurosceptic. This story is about the European elite being worried that the Euro-peasants are revolting and will damage their gravy train.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no barry the scare story is highlighted in this part of the link where the italian chap is trying to say that more eurosceptric mep's
would harm economic recovery.
if they were to win more than 25% of the vote next May, he warned, it would be the start of "very negative" trend that could have a potentially devastating impact on the continent's potential for growth.
"I believe the risk of having the most anti-European European parliament in history is being greatly underestimated," Letta told the Guardian and five other European newspapers, characterising the challenge as a "great battle" between "the Europe of the people and the Europe of populism".
The underlying issue facing the next parliament would be how to press ahead with continent-wide economic recovery, he said. "But if we want to move from the legislature of austerity to a legislature of growth, and we find ourselves with the most Eurosceptic, most anti-European parliament in history, this goal will be immediately crippled, halted."
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The European Parliament has practically no influence on the economies of the nations in the EU. It's a toothless folly with lots of powers on paper but none in reality. A talking shop. A tower of Babel. A white elephant that should be shot.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon
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dose that include the british government peter,being shot that is.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard - An EU that is less active and less interfering, because there are a lot of Eurosceptics in the Parliament, would be beneficial to the economy. They do nothing but harm. All we need from them is a free trade area.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1
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wont get far in UK Elections
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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they don't expect to keith with the "first past the post" system in operation but very different in may with proportional representation the order of the day.
it is generally thought that eurosceptics across the e.u. will make gains enough to render the european parliament impotent.
