The European Parliament is the political wing of the Eurovision Song Contest, just as Sinn Fein is the political wing of the IRA. Most people intrinsically know that the political wing of any pseudo-democratic organism should not be taken too seriously. That’s why Irish electorates, with uncanny insight into deeper political meanings, have usually sent to the European Parliament the political equivalent of Dustin the Turkey, creatures such as Ming Flanagan, Mick Wallace and Claire Daly. Less lightweights then voluble vacuums.
It’s appropriate that the elections for the next European parliament should have started on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings that made Europe free. None of the countries responsible for the landings are in the EU today, the peoples of the UK having exited eight years ago, naively thinking that this would enable them to regain the mastery of their own future. But they soon discovered that compared to the power of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg, the EU is master of virtually nothing. This ECHR has the real power, a Soviet-style politburo enforcing the edicts of the virtually self-appointed caste of legal ideologues, in the name of “human rights”.
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