There is better acceptance of protest in South Shields Town Hall
While we are still arguing over who won this week’s bish bash at Prime Minister’s Blankety Blank Questions, Trixie at Is there More to Life than Shoes reminds us that the European Parliament was today having a vote on the EU Constitution (oops, sorry, the Lisbon Treaty.) Oddly the BBC are not reporting this event on it’s News website, not even in the European section, obviously this occasion is neither momentous or newsworthy.
Quite why anyone wishes to be an MEP anyway is beyond me, the EU parliament is a toothless crocodile with tiny ears and a big mouth, unfortunately the Council of Ministers is the real beast!
I digress, Trixie was wearing a tee shirt with the pictured logo printed upon it;
“This year, as the EU Constitution is being voted upon, I was only roughly shoved by one person. I quite clearly told him to “keep his hands off me and don’t lay a finger on me” which was caught on camera, and his senior jobsworths told him to get off me, but they are so quick to use violence. IT’s the natural language they understand against people who don’t agree with them.”
“The Head of Security even tried to convince us that it was clearly written in the Rules and Regs that ‘No person is allowed to wear a chicken outfit in the European Parlaiment’. When asked to show this regulation they declined.
There were about 15 security guards for three chickens and a few members of staff in chicken jumpers.
I was told I had to leave the European Parliament building and when they got around that one by me calling people and telling them they said if I wanted to walk anywhere else I would have to take off my jumper. I said I was quite happy to, but since I was wearing nothing underneath I am sure that would certainly break the rules. They weren’t too bothered about that one.”
“Having seen yet again the actions today by the European Parliament and their hypocrisy and double standards, I really do fear for people who don’t want to be part of the EU. Pro EU MEPs are allowed to call people who support a referendum ‘like Adolf Hitler’, ‘mentally ill’ and ‘idiots’ but anyone who is in favour of people sticking to their election promises and actually asking the people in a free and fair referendum rather than waffling on about ‘getting closer to the people’ and then completely ignoring them can just f*** right off. “
I applaud Trixie for even bothering to take the fight over to the parliament, certainly none of them seem interested in bringing the debate to us, and parliamentarians of our own (Labour) who won seats on a mandate that included a commitment to a referendum on the Constitution (and this Treaty is little different to the failed constitution) should be ashamed to sit on the same benches as the Bruins.
Brown and Miliband seem intent on watching this measure take a rough ride through the Commons, as long as it comes out patched up at the other end.
Federalists, both of them!
