Brussels Bureaucrats Absolutely Hate Being Called to Account
A senior Brussels bureaucrat (who must for understandable reasons remain anonymous) freely admitted to me last week that the administration hates having to cope with questions and letters from MEPs
The worst ones, he told me, are the ones with coherent arguments to which we have no answers!
One-minute speeches in the chamber are a waste of time. But detailed analytical criticism of detail, launched with good evidence in committee, can be devastating. And it sometimes yields huge amounts of detail about what the EU is up to and planning in the future. It can also cause huge embarrassment, for example when corruption and the loss of public funds is exposed. (There is a mass of information on this website about my findings as a member of the European Parliament´s Budget Control Committee. – see Topics)
Being involved in the day-to-day activities of the European Parliament also provides the opportunity to take the fight to protect British interests, including that of small firms and individuals, right into the bureaucrats faces.
It provides the opportunity to ask hundreds of written questions which undermine their confidence, question their judgment, make them think about the consequences of what they are doing - sow ever more doubts about the erosion of support in the UK and all the money we give them - and, above all, divert if not waste huge amounts of their time.
That is the only form of accountability I have yet discovered. It works and is worth doing so long as we are trapped in this lunatic asylum.
And I now know – from the admission of my bureaucrat ?friend´ - that it works!
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