The REAL reason why the BNP refuses to propose any policies that would support marriage

It is offensive to say to point out people's mistakes.  If you find yourself in the position of being an SSM https://www.facebook.com/pages/Should-Spinster-Single-Mothers-be-lashed-100-times/417696111659379, then it is obvious that you have made the mistake of having offspring before you have found yourself a husband. But do even say this would be disrespectful to slags, and these days being disrespectful towards slags is to be more of a social misdemeanour than to be disrespectful towards marriage.  Marriage these days is of course no more than "a piece of paper" not fit to be used to wipe our bottoms, is it not?

People even get upset at me when I say that the reality of respecting marriage means we must logically forbid extramarital sex.  This is of course heresy, as poor Nadine Dorries discovered to her cost when she suggested that girls should just say no.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/may/05/nadine-dorries-abstinence-bill-girls-sex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries#Abstinence_advocacy_for_girls_in_sex_education

Anyway, British women these days are overwhelmingly sluts and fornicatresses.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2285670/Most-children-of-British-mothers-born-out-of-wedlock.html

Why is this a problem?

David Starkey explains at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14513517

85% of mothers in Jamaica SSMs. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070204/focus/focus2.html

Even Britain's foremost Conservative thinker, Peter Hitchens, is afraid of SSMs, saying they "should not be condemned or harassed."  
http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/why-is-peter-hitchens-soft-on-ssms.html

The Koran however would lash SSMs 100 times per illegitimate offspring, as I have pointed out to him repeatedly.  However, I do believe he rather despises Muslims for being brown, backward and barbaric while fondly imagining white Christian people to be morally superior because of their liberal, compassionate and effeminate policy of never making the punishment fit the crime.

Are the sins of mothers visited on their sons?  It seems an adulteress can even from beyond the grave exert a a malign influence on her son's journalistic ability to discuss a subject in such urgent need of discussion.  Peter Hitchens is a man already in his 60s.

Such is the power of even women who have gone against the rules and come to a sticky end that they would be condemned as a matter of course in more rational and patriarchal times.  Now of course they are romanticised, sentimentalised and perhaps even glamorised.  It is indeed awful that a man known to be a Conservative thinker and a good speaker cannot now bring himself to discuss the low morals standards of British women because of his own adulterous mother who committed suicide.

Well, if he won't then it appears I must, and I will not shrink from this.
  
http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/peter-hitchens-wont-condemn-low-sexual.html

It is clear that British men all suffer from a collective neurosis, rather similar to battered wife's syndrome. This symptom manifests itself in thinking the enemy to be impossibly strong and powerful and therefore not to be resisted.  And this is why these pathetic men who complain about the country going to the dogs dare not condemn feminism which promotes female promiscuity.  They are all like that.  It is a collective male neurosis.  If Britain were under the yoke of a male tyrant their fear of defying would be in a way understandable: they fear hearing a knock on the door in the middle of the night and being taken away to be tortured never to be heard of again.  Now, in matriarchal Britain they actually fear the creatures who are obviously stupider and weaker and poorer than they are.  This kind of degradation is of course much worse than the former, and that is why the more radical Muslims sneer and spit at them as they declare that they will never become like these pathetic men, who only think and act like fearful woman in denial attached to a penis.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battered_person_syndrome#Symptoms

"The abused has an irrational belief that the abuser is omnipresent and omniscient."

and probably omnipotent too, eh?  My field research has revealed that out of all the people most affected by the lack of respect to marriage are the ones who complain about immigration most vociferously.  The most most illegitimate are the ones who have most desecrated marriage.  

"Men in the North-East were most uncertain if their child is really theirs."

"Mothers in the North West of England were the most uncertain of their child’s  biological father."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566272/The-1-2million-dads-doubt-child-theirs-One-six-men-North-East-uncertain-babys-paternity.html

This means that there are more slags in the North West than in the North East.  It is bad enough that a woman is pretending to her male partner that her child was sired by him but much much worse if the woman herself does not know who the fuck sired her bastard because she has had so many partners that she really cannot remember.  

One in ten fathers in Britain have doubts over the paternity of their children rising to one in five men in some regions, including the North East

Problem is most apparent in the North West, where six per cent are unsure

three per cent of women say they are not sure of child's father

mothers in the North West, in cities like Liverpool and Manchester, were most likely to be unsure who the biological father of their children was

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2562666/One-ten-fathers-Britain-doubts-paternity-children.html

BNP leader Nick Griffin has been elected to the European Parliament as the party won its first two seats.
Mr Griffin was elected for the North West region while Andrew Brons picked up another BNP seat in Yorkshire and Humber, where it won 10% of the vote.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8088381.stm

Teenage pregnancy

For top-tier authorities, Manchester has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the region.  For council districts, Burnley has the highest rate, closely followed by Hyndburn, both in Lancashire.   For top-tier authorities, Cheshire has the lowest teenage pregnancy rate.  For council districts, Eden has the lowest rate closely followed by South Lakeland, both in Cumbria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_England#Teenage_pregnancy

Teenage Pregnancy

For top-tier authorities, Kingston upon Hull has the highest teenage pregnancy rate, closely followed by North East Lincolnshire. For top-tier authorities, North Yorkshire has the lowest teenage pregnancy rate. For council districts, Ryedale has the lowest rate, closely followed by Craven. Only North Yorkshire has council districts in the region.

Rotherham had the UK's youngest grandmother - 26 years old. Her 12 year old daughter gave birth on 26 August 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_and_the_Humber#Teenage_pregnancy

King Lear  Act 1, Scene 2

EDMUND:

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,
Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

http://voices.yahoo.com/deformity-illegitimacy-shakespeares-plays-46697.html?cat=38

It was believed in Shakespeare's time that illegitimate children were destined to follow a similarly evil path. Evidence suggests that Shakespeare shared this popular view. At one point in King Lear, for example, Lear refers to his daughter Goneriil as "a degenerate bastard" (I. iv. 252). Lear also suspects that his wicked offspring are the product of his wife's adultery (Muir 125). According to Elizabethan Thomas Becon, "Bastards were the gifts of God but contrary to the word of God because their generation, conception and bringing forth was unlawful.

God had ordained the state of matrimony for the propagation of the human race, and did not, therefore, bless whoredom but did bless and glorify the fruit of matrimony" (Pearson 266). These "unlawful" children were denied the right to enter a church or to inherit property (Pearson 266). 

So now we know why the BNP cannot win.

Nick Griffin's EU Region is the one most cursed with sluts where the percentage of mothers not sure of who the father of their illegitimate children are is highest.

He does not want to alienate his core supporters, of course, and they are the women who gave birth to their illegitimate offspring and their illegitimate offspring.

I suggest a change of strategy to the BNP Chairman: instead of clinging desperately to these core supporters of dubious chastity who made him MEP, he should consider recruiting Khaw Supporters, ie civic nationalists who are not afraid to publicly support marriage and acknowledge its importance in maintaining the quality of the race and the national gene pool.

I have been saying for ages that to tolerate SSMs is to tolerate widespread illegitimacy, and to tolerate widespread illegitimacy is to tolerate national degeneracy and the creation of an inferior race within your race.

This video demonstrates that black men are more prepared to criticise the morals of their women than white men or even white nationalists and that white men are the most pussywhipped men in the world.

For a married man to be afraid of offending women in a region with the highest percentage of mothers who admit to not knowing who the father of their child is cannot be a desirable attribute for a racial nationalist, surely?   I had always thought ethno-nationalists would be terribly concerned about eugenics and breeding, but it seems I am wrong.  After all, marriage does help protect stupid people from themselves, since, if you did respect marriage, you would not be having sex with your intended until after the wedding, very effectively avoiding the problems of unwanted pregnancy, illegitimacy, single parenthood and breeding with a partner you and your child would be ashamed of.  It seems Nick Griffin is prepared to tolerate the progressive and probably terminal degeneracy of his supporters as long as they can still get it together to shuffle to the polling booth to vote for him as and when required, which seems rather dishonourable to me, if truth be told.

Surely he does not want the white race to mostly consist of the genetic material of the welfare-dependent NEET and the overweight, dim and promiscuous female who cannot control her voracious sexual appetite?

Surely it is time to fire a warning shot at these people instead of cowering abjectedly before them?  If the reason for his fear of offending these people is because they all have the vote, then it is surely time to propose the narrowing of the franchise to taxpayers only. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ianmcowie/100010127/a-tax-based-alternative-to-the-alternative-vote/

It is really too bad if British Nationalism remains confined to the chinless wonders like Gregory Lauder Frost and his gang of misfit upper class males http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23627520 on the one hand and the likes of The Fat Slags and Baz on the other. Gregory Lauder Frost apparently hates feminism so much he is not prepared to even discuss it at TBG meetings, but would propose the repatriation of Lady Lawrence and in the next breath tell me I am considered a "loose cannon" by his old boys' club the Traditional Britain Group.

This is why these goons and clowns are mocked by everyone.  To be leader of a party voted MEP by people with the lowest standards of sexual morality in the country must surely be already fatal, even without the added racism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9oMXdSiQM

The Fat Slags by Viz

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1390959/Cheryl-Cole-SACKED-X-Factor-USA-Geordie-accent.html

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/why-white-race-is-declining-in-numbers.html

Why can't Nick Griffin see the utter degradation of nationalist men being seen by other races to be afraid of sluts and SSMs?  Can he now understand why Muslims don't want to integrate into British culture because they don't want their daughters to become like the Fat Slags or their sons to become Baz their sidekick?  Is this really so hard to understand?

As for the alleged Jewish conspiracy to make nationalists look bad in the "Jew-controlled media", they surely don't need to even try, do they?

Jews, Muslims and Asians at least try to practice their religion and respect marriage while the white indigenous call it a piece of paper not fit to wipe their bottoms with. That is why Jews and Muslims are now treated with more respect than the white indigenous proletariat, but this subject is not to be discussed, because the men fear to upset the easily upset sluts and SSMs who will then withhold sex from them.

I think we already know that the Anglican and Catholic Church has been fatally infested by liberals, feminists and homosexuals and will never recover its moral authority within our lifetimes because we have a relatively young Pope intent on getting into the sexually liberal swing of things.

What is to be done?  Watch this space for I  have the solution to their problem.  Can you guess what it is?  

Draft Statement for Nick Griffin welcoming Claire Khaw back into the BNP

"It gives me great pleasure to welcome Claire Khaw back into the BNP.  She was wrongly expelled in 2011 for her comments about Riven Vincent's severely disabled child on the Victoria Derbyshire Show http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/transcript-of-what-i-said-on-victoria.html, which she made in a personal capacity.  At no time did she represent herself as a member of the party.  The fact that it was subsequently discovered that she was a member of the BNP by her enemies is neither here nor there.

In the name of expediency, and for the purposes of killing the story, she was expelled even though she was technically innocent of any misdemeanor.

While many said she brought the party into disrepute, the fact is that in politics whatever you say will be considered offensive, immoral and disreputable by someone holding the opposite view.  The BNP is a party singled out for special opprobrium and it is for this reason that talented activists who draw the fire of the liberal media should be defended by the party, or at the very least, given the chance to defend themselves.  It was regrettable that this was not done and we lost the opportunity of making a real impression on London and the nation during the London Mayoral elections that year.

However offensive people found her views, they were no more than saying that

(1) she would not wish to bring up a severely disabled child

(2) she would not pass the cost of its maintenance onto the British taxpayer

(3) in the pre-welfare state days the midwife would have disposed of it for her.

Claire had a right to say what is in fact intellectually and morally defensible without being unfairly punished and the party should have defended her right to express that view.  The fact that it did not demonstrated that the party did not then clearly understand the principle of free speech.  It is the principle that protects our liberties and is the foundation of Western civilisation.

Henceforth members who makes controversial statements will be given a chance to defend themselves. Their performance will be videoed and put on the party website and party members will be  invited to vote for or against their expulsion.   This move is intended to democratise our party as well as nurture political talent and encourage people of courage and talent to join the BNP.

Claire should be made welcome in the BNP, for there is much she can do for nationalists in the short, medium and long term.  I can think of no one better to be our MEP candidate in the South East for the EU elections of 2014.  In the 2015 General Election she would also be an excellent prospective parliamentary candidate that will give the liberal media to whom she is already known as an "activist-philosopher" http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/may/29/hugh-muir-diary-waterboarding-bbc a run for their money.

In 2015 the party will also have its leadership election.  It has long been said that I have a policy of removing anyone who might become leader from the party, and now would be the perfect time to demonstrate to you all that I do not mind leadership elections at all if the contenders actually have a chance of winning against me.

Claire has big ideas for the party, chief of which is for the BNP to officially and unambiguously adopt civic nationalism so that we can work more closely and fully with UKIP with a view to a merger in the future. Such a merger would turn us social conservatives and Eurosceptics into a bigger stick with which to beat the LibLabCon - they, who are the lunatics and extremists already in power and starting unprofitable wars in the name of the British people - and there is everything to be said for making this bold strategic move.  It is surprising how much you can achieve if you don't mind who takes the credit.

While I know such an idea will be more repugnant to some of our more "traditional" members, they at least know that they have the option of joining the NF.  I would strongly encourage those who have a view on civic nationalism and Claire's possible leadership of the party to join the party now, in order to vote for or against her in 2015.  This message is particularly addressed to all former members of the BNP who have gone to join ever smaller nationalist parties and who must now know that if the BNP has been eclipsed by UKIP, then they will be in the shadow of the BNP who is already in the shadow of UKIP.

Rejoin the BNP and we may yet compete and rival UKIP after we become officially and unambiguously civic nationalist under Claire's leadership.  Do not miss this opportunity of being part of something potentially great and racially inclusive.

The BNP - for all the peoples of Britain."

My disqualification as Jury Team London MEP candidate

I was was disqualified as Jury Team candidate on Wednesday 15 April 2009 on grounds of contravening the following rule:

"I agree not to support any policies discriminating on the basis of race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, disability or religious or other belief."


The full text can found at http://www.juryteam.org/agreement.php

It came to the notice of Dillon Sharp the Press Officer that I was proposing to strike a bargain with the BNP. If they voted for me in sufficient numbers to secure me the nomination, I would vote for a BNP MEP on 4 June, I said.


This is all on record at the British Democracy Forum at

http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/

where you will find my comments.

You may also be interested to know that Bob Bailey, the BNP MEP candidate in question, in fact agreed to ask his members to support me and said he voted for me.

If I am guilty of anything, it is of horse-trading, which is not in fact prohibited.

Re-read the term that I am alleged to have contravened, and you would see that "other belief" could include National Socialism, voodoo, human sacrifice, etc.

The person who drafted this term is clearly not a lawyer, or unfit to practice law. Sir Paul was obviously not paying attention when he approved that clause.

I have received neither an answer or an apology from Sir Paul after bringing this to his attention, only a guilty silence.

A request from one of my supporters to have his 25p returned to him after my unjust and unwarranted exclusion has so far not been acceded to.

Someone who declined to vote for me declared that it was probably a telephone scam.

Perhaps it is.

If you wish to acquaint Sir Paul with your views, his email is paul at paulrjudge.com and his website is at http://www.paulrjudge.com/

Dillon Sharp, the Press Officer who disqualified me may be contacted at

press@juryterm.org

call 07538 280 041 (24 hours a day)

Such high-handed and disgraceful treatment has made me even more determined to do business with the BNP, whom I believe would have an interest in promoting direct democracy, unlike the sham movement of Sir Paul, who which only allows Direct Democracy for those who do not contravene his incoherent and nonsensical rule.

Direct Democracy is also something that would be in the interests of Muslims too, even if they do not as yet know this.

I have requested two fatwas on whether Direct Democracy could ever be unIslamic, but perhaps they are unfamiliar with the concept and unused to such a comprehensive question. I have asked for Tim Winter's but he is neither saying yes nor no. Perhaps he means maybe.

It is worth remembering that the most despised groups in the country, ie the Muslims and the BNP, who were against the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, were right on this all along.

In fact, it would be in all our interests, if only enough people understood the concept through exploring it at http://www.1party4all.co.uk/

For those still worried about letting the loonies in by voting BNP, may I point out that the loonies are already in charge.

Michael White of The Guardian even agrees with me, bless him, and he was right all along that the Jury Team are a complete waste of time.

Apparently, MPs expect at least 4 or 5 BNP MEPs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/18/electoralreform-bnp-far-right

He also says that it would be a good thing for the country if the BNP do well. If the BNP are analogous to a stick, then the use of this stick to protest against the policies of the Lib-Lab-Con is the only option we have now of making our feelings known, whatever our race or religion.

Call it entering the British National Suicide Voting Pact if you must, but sometimes, suicide is the only honourable option.

I thank Sir Paul and his sham movement for making this ringingly clear to me.

Vote BNP in the Euro elections.
You know you want to.

Why the British are stupid. They have a system that allows their politicians to betray them.

Do the British realise that Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel ensure that their political oligarchy are in the pay of a foreign country who do not have the best interests of the British people at heart?

Are the British aware that an MEP gets paid more than an MP?

This means the British taxpayer is paying politicians to sell them down the river.

They must be either stupid or scared. Maybe both.

Six of one and half dozen of the other.

MP expenses claims: Gallows in Parliament Square as opinion polling

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Expenses:_Breakdown_of_all_the_big_claims&in_article_id=656463&in_page_id=34

http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Gallows (how to, very easy apparently)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article670403.ece (gallows story hoax, apparently)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4754515.stm (photo of gallows builder, John Lucas with pic of gallows in background)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/29/world.patrickbarkham

http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2009/04/breaking-news-suffolk-bnp-candidate.html (arrest of John Lucas, BNP MEP candidate)

http://britishnationalism.org/?p=187 (David Lucas, BNP MEP candidate)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/14/elliot-morley-mortgage-expenses (picture of Elliot Morley)

http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/contacts.html (contact details of Brian Haw, who has camped there since 2 June 2001)

Elliot Morley is in such deep do-do over claiming interest on a mortgage he has already paid off that he has been suspended by the Labour Party.

At least he cannot use the tired old excuse that it was "all within the rules". Dark mutterings of fraud have been heard.

I wonder if there is any law that prohibits the ostentatious erection of multiple gallows in Parliament Square.

They could be added and taken off according to how the populace feel about the performance of our political classes. It may be more effective than getting YouGov to poll us.

A poll on this can be found at

http://www.1party4all.co.uk/Home/Account/TopicForm.aspx?topicsId=133

Frankly, if I lived in the Eastern Region, I would be voting for David Lucas, the BNP MEP candidate, for his enterprise and advocacy of the death penalty and his skill in the building and exporting of gallows, if not for his disgusting beard. I wonder if he is still single. I know the best men - even those with horrible beards - are usually already taken.

Vote BNP in the Euro elections.

You know you want to.

http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/talk-about-anything/61187-gallows-parliament-square-opinion-polling.html

http://tv.bnp.org.uk/2009/06/fascism-in-britain-the-case-of-david-lucas/ - David Lucas arrested on trumped-up charges?

MEP fat cattery

http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-charts/the-brussels-bubble-42407.aspx

The Brussels bubble: how long can the junkets last?
By Associate Editor David Stevenson Feb 27, 2009
The European Parliament has so far escaped the recession. But as a damning report reveals shocking levels of self-enrichment, for how much longer can it do so? David Stevenson reports.

What's been going on?

Former management consultant David Craig and Matthew Elliott of British campaign group The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) have opened up a Pandora's box of lavish MEP perks, with their new book The Great European Rip-Off. "The EU project and institutions have been hijacked by an arrogant, self-serving and undemocratic elite, which has become increasingly isolated from and disdainful of the people who pay their considerable salaries, expenses and pensions – us," says Craig in The Sunday Times. "Among the things that shocked me were the arrogance, cynicism and avarice of MEPs, commissioners and EU staff, and the extraordinary levels of thieving. Brussels is a bubble that's escaped the recession."

How big are the numbers?

A British MEP receives basic pay of £63,291, the same as a British MP. But after this June's European Parliament elections, MEPs from all countries will be paid the same - €91,980. At current exchange rates, that would see a British MEP's salary rise to more than £81,000. MEPs also enjoy free accident, travel and life insurance, as well as widespread medical benefits. But the real kicker – and the area most ripe for abuse – is in allowable expenses. Over the course of a year, these include a subsistence allowance of £51,000, staff allowances of £182,000, office expenses of £44,000 and travel expenses of £11,000. That lot accounts for €200m of the €1.45bn total annual cost of the EU parliament.

So the living is easy for MEPs?

It certainly seems so. Thanks to "lax financial checks", says the Daily Mail, "grasping MEPs can become millionaires [pdf] through dodgy expense claims". "So generous is the staff allowance," says Craig, "an MEP can slip his or her spouse or offspring £50,000 to £60,000 a year and still employ more than one full-time secretary and a few researchers." And although allocated two fully furnished, rent-free offices in the European parliament building, "many MEPs claim for a constituency office in their own homes, while some take the cash without having a constituency office at all". No receipts are required. That's also true of the £257 a day tax-free subsistence allowance, which MEPs can claim by simply turning up and signing in to the European Parliament in the morning before leaving again – no attendance at actual sessions is required. Chuck in handsome travel expenses and one of the best pension schemes in Europe and the package is worth more than £400,000 a year. At current exchange rates the five-year total profit – even after deducting expenses such as 'genuine full-time assistants', and assuming salaries are spent on living costs – comes to £1,176,800, says The Times's Jonathan Oliver.

Is this all legal?

The rules governing the use of expenses and the need for receipts are certainly lax, but it seems that some MEPs have stretched them to breaking point. The TPA has also published a confidential 92-page study, written by the head of internal audit for the EU parliament, Robert Galvin, in 2006. He details "corruption, dodgy dealing and poor financial controls". Some assistants were paid bonuses of over 1.5 times their annual salaries. Payments were made to others for whom no records existed, or to 'front' companies. One MEP paid the entire staff allowance to a person suspected of being a relative, while other payments were made to the coffers of national political parties. Overpayments of allowances were also common, says Galvin. Overall, such abuses exposed the parliament to "financial, legal and reputational risk". "Taxpayers deserve to know if anyone is stealing from them," concludes Elliott. "There must now be a proper police investigation."

Why has all this taken so long to emerge?

Galvin's analysis was initially "kept secret", says The Daily Telegraph's Andrew Porter. It first came to light a year ago when Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies disclosed some of its findings after refusing to sign a confidentiality agreement, but it's only now that the full report has been published. Many MEPs aren't on the make, says Davies, but honesty just doesn't pay. "We need absolute transparency. No one knows who's cheating and who's not, and it's a disgrace the parliament has voted to keep auditors' reports secret. I don't want the cheats to get away with it." Given that Galvin examined just 167 payments out of a total of 4,686 in October 2004, it's likely that many more abuses of the system by some of the 785 members of the 27-nation parliament remain uncovered.

How can the junkets be stopped?

This June's European elections will see "a complete overhaul of the system", says the EU parliament. MEPs' flat-rate travel allowances will be replaced by reimbursement of expenses incurred, and they won't be able to hire close family members as assistants. But any employed before July 2008 may remain on the EU payroll until the 2014 European parliament elections. And payments for subsistence and constituency offices of up to £94,000 annually will continue, with no requirement to prove where the cash goes. So MEPs can still make thousands a year tax-free. Davies thinks the reforms don't go far enough: "if five steps are needed, the parliament always seems to take only two. We're now better than the Italian system but a long way short of the standards of the House of Commons". Not that London is squeaky clean. As Galvin concludes: "the world's political class is increasingly contemptuous of the rules".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T7GXrDCJMI
Tom Wise boasting about his cushy life as MEP to impress a "posh Teddington bird".