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Jim,
Its always the ones at the bottom of the chain that are made to suffer. The day I hear a politician of any party turn around and say "Sorry, we screwed up big style, but I will give 25% of my salary back until we turn things around again" even to hear a politician of any party say the first word - Sorry, would be a breath of fresh air.
Politicians are greedy money grabbing sewer rats. In South Yorkshire a Barnsey Labour MP (Jarvis) who doesn't want a South Yorkshire Mayor was/is actually standing for the roll. Best of all he was staying on as an MP because he believed he could do both full time jobs together? So with a combined salary well in excess of £100k he was smiling all the way to the bank. Labours NEC then ruled nobody could do both together, they probably foresaw the newspaper headlines.
Dan Jarvis is gutted - I bet he is.

Yeah,it isn't just EU politicians with their noses in the trough for sure. Look at how many MPs are consultants or advisors. Farage portrays himself as a friend of the fishing industry but today it was revealed he has only attended 1 out of 42 meetings at the euro parliament on fisheries, that snake will have the gall to take an EU pension as well.

British people now use buses run by RATP,trains run by abellio,bank with santander,shop for food in aldi..... and going to have blue passports made in france. This whole desire for isolationism is complete nonsense,absolute fantasia.

All politicians are on the gravy train. Don't understand why he still gets a seat on Question Time because he isn't an MP.

Everybody gets an EU pension if they have worked there. An MEP gets a salary and expenses of up to £415,000 a year while MEP assistants get £213,000 a year for their salary and expenses. A lot of the British MEPs use a loophole called "la clause anglaise". To pay their spouses and children from the MEP assistants allowances. Also MEPs are able to earn up to £91,000 a year in daily subsistence and general expenditure expenses without having to provide any receipts or proof of expenditure. Plus they get a subsistence allowance or per diem which is £258 paid in cash without any proof of expenditure, when MEPs sign an attendance register in Brussels or the Strasbourg seat of the parliament (similar to the House of Lords)

Makes you wonder if an MEP get's that. How much does a Commissioner get?

The reason why public services and our infrastructure is owned by European companies is the fault of a woman called Mrs T, who sold everything off. It's the reason why we don't have industry in this country.

The blue passport thing is false because we could have kept the passports blue, didn't need to change over to the red. To be honest does it really matter what colour it is?

As for the fish debate, yes its true the EU used to throw away and waste fish due to quotas but it was Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who got the law changed by creating a petition and getting people to sign it.