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Lord Kinnock of Brussels

Lord Kinnock who is now a member of the British House Lords and has a new role of overseeing the British Parliament and protecting the British Constitution is getting confused with his old job when he was under oath to only work for the EU Commision.

Kinnock of course receives a nice fat pension paid by our taxes via the EU so he still has a financial interest which he does not have to declare. If anyone receiving upwards of £60,000 per year from any other source did not declare it this would be an infringement on parliamentary rules, but for some unknown reason the EU pension which is tied to never going against the EU is not supposed to represent a conflict of interest. So from his lofty position of utter impartiality Kinnock is supporting the EU claims that it needs to increase its budget, so that it can do more EU, more propaganda, more control, more social interference and more regionalisation.

The Scotsman reports that he has clashed with the Chancellor over EU spending plans…

Kinnock tonight clashed with Chancellor Gordon Brown over Brussels spending plans.

Mr Brown wants to cut the EU budget and hand member states more power over how grants are spent.

But Lord Kinnock warned that would have serious social and economic effects.

And he turned the Chancellor’s own watchword – “prudence” – on him, saying it meant more than simply cutting spending.

Six EU governments, including Britain, want the ceiling of the EU budget to be cut from 1.27% of GDP to 1% for 2006-2013. The current level however, is actually 0.98%.

Mr Brown also wants regional and social funding expenditure to be “renationalised”.

In a speech to the British Council in London, Lord Kinnock said a lower budget ceiling would force the EU to make cuts.

He said that would hit research and development and regional funding, working against all policies for generating sustainable growth and employment across the EU.

It would also impact on social funding which would undermine policies of social inclusion and facilitating the single market.

He said the motive was prudence. But he added: “Prudence in a modern economy clearly means much more than cutting spending. It means better management and it means gaining more quality, more benefit, more valuable outcomes from what is spent.

“And that is why sustained EU investment, effectively managed and more accurately targeted is more prudent than the simple slicing which is now proposed.”

Does this man not realise that very many of the people who pay his pension would much rather have less EU at less cost.