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Daniel Hannan is a Tory MEP If only the Tories would take on board his views, but until they do then there is a place for UKIP.

Telegraph | News | At the heart of Europe:
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Forget the rhetoric about the parliament “coming of age” and “standing up to the executive”. It is back to business as usual, with legislature and executive backing each other against a sceptical public.

I have not met a single Euro-MP who thinks that this was the best available team. Of the 25 commissioners, six are former Communists and four have recently lost elections - again demonstrating that the Commission is not so much undemocratic as anti-democratic, attracting politicians who have been expressly rejected by voters.

We have an agriculture commissioner who makes money from the CAP, a competition commissioner who, after only two days, has already run into conflicts of interest, and an anti-fraud commissioner who was recently involved in a fraud case (although he was acquitted).
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“There you have it. As far as MEPs are concerned, it is all right to have supported a totalitarian regime, to have been convicted in a corruption case or, indeed, to be an evident dullard with no knowledge of your portfolio. What is not all right is to support the supremacy of national parliaments. Dolts, shysters, reds and retreads are welcome. But someone who believes that nations should set their own taxes? That would be going too far.”