Iain says:
I have to say I have never quite understood why MEPs had passes to the building in the first place, so I can't get as excited as Nigel Farage about this.
I disagree with Iain here and fully back Nigel Farage. I think Iain should be getting excited about this. The authorities have taken away a privilege from all MEPs apparently in order to ensure lack of access for two of them. Whether you like the EU or not it is surely right that we make it easy for our elected European legislators to liaise with our elected MPs? This measure will make that more difficult.
As I have said about the BNP before, when the debate was raging about whether Nick Griffin should be allowed on BBC Question Time, they have elected MEPs. From this, certain things flow in a democracy. The Westminster authorities may think they are doing the right thing but they are making a mistake.
How many more rules are they going to change to affect two specific MEPs but also cause problems for the remaining 70 who are not fascists?
PS: I have also noticed that quite a few of the comments on Iain's post seem to agree with me.
Agreed. It was a petty anti-BNP move and there is no reason to keep British elected politicians apart from one another.
ReplyDeleteConsidering these are the only people elected in a democratic election across Britain, Westminster having a corrupt & undemocratic electoral system, they should be the only ones allowed a pass.
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