Ha-ha ha-ha, have you heard the one about the European Commission Vice President who didn't know how the system worked....ha-ha ha-ha.


Gunter Verheugen, Vice-President of the European Commission, has said he is “shocked” by discovering that the European Union’s legislative process is often abused by special interest groups and companies who falsely claim to represent the public interest.

Just where has this man been, has he only just arrived on our planet, or is he an illegal immigrant perhaps. I can here it now, Honest Guv, I didn't know how it all worked!!

"What really shocked me that during the process I’ve done in recent years, I’ve found that in many cases, European legislation is triggered by interest groups,” said Verheugen.

Well, no shit Sherlock, who'd ave thunk it.

“Simply the result of pressure from one interest group, is presented as something that is important for the public but it is not. In reality it is the interest of one particular group, even one particular company.” he said.

You can read more from this VP of Commission humour here. and marvel at his stupidity.

In the EU, it’s the Commission that initiatives legal proposals. After it presents an official paper, these proposals are discussed then rubber stamped at the European Parliament, which can only introduce amendments. After adoption by the parliament, proposals need to be signed off by the European Council, where member states meet face-to-face just twice a year, before it becomes EU law. The Commission then issues a directive that National Parliaments must then turn into national law.

Tell me that this is not a Corporatist Empire at work.

These are the people that Cameron wants to help Brown give our economy and banking industry to (discussions are already under way about the UK adopting the Euro), these are the people that Cameron naively thinks he can reform, these are the people that Cameron thinks he can ignore when he promises the great British public his undeliverable Conservative policies.

The phrase about piss ups and breweries springs to mind, and these are the unelected people we are supposed to put our trust in. These are the kind of people that Cameron, Clegg and Brown want to do business with!!

We think not.


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“The Jacques Delors heritage”

Verheugen said that it proves difficult to change attitudes of EU officials. He said many of them are still locked into a mode of thinking inspired during the 1980s by former Commission President Jacques Delors, whose Commission significantly boosted the European influence over national legislation in the EU’s member states.

“There is a way of thinking in the institutions that Europe, the more regulation, the more rules you have, the more Europe you have,” said Verheugen. “I call that the Jacques Delors heritage... keep the machine running... oil the machinery... give the legislators work to do... keep the process running... They’re seeing European integration as a process, and the process is, making rules.

“It’s very difficult to explain to officials who have the understanding that what they are doing is indeed an important contribution for European integration... to explain them that sometimes, less is more.

It’s a mistake to believe that you have more Europe if we have more regulation,” said Verheugen.