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The Press: 

It’s potty - EU plant workers can dodge law

Lowly EU officials in charge of PLANTS have been officially declared above the law - along with their families. The eurocrats have been granted diplomatic immunity normally reserved for high-ranking foreign envoys. Staff in charge of food, trains and translation can also escape punishment for offences committed… the concessions allow officials to escape prosecution for minor crimes like motoring offences…UKIP MEP Jeffrey Titford said: Imagine if some young thug slings a brick through your window and the police arrest him. How would you feel if they had to let him go because daddy works for the EU?
(The Sun, 7 March 2005)

The Facts:

This is another good one from The Sun and is of course complete garbage. If a young thug throws a brick at a window, the example MEP Jeffrey Titford uses, they can not escape punishment “because daddy works for the EU”. Or even if mummy works for the EU, or indeed if the thug himself works for the EU. In fact, if any so-called “Eurocrat” throws a brick through a window, commits a traffic or any other offence in their private life, they are subject to the full force of the law, just like everybody else.

Notes:

This is trivialising a very basic concept of the British constitution, we are all equal under the law and the law applies to all of us, with the possible exception of the Queen.

The police have the authority to investigate and prosecute anyone including themselves, there is no automatic immunity from prosecution for Members of Parliament, government ministers, police officers etc. If there were we would have been able to punish those Tory MPs who took cash for questions.

This is not the case in the EU where EU officials do have immunity from prosecution for actions taken on the course of their duties. Even of they are corrupt they are deemed to be above the Law. This is has now been extended to include armed Europol officers. So these officers will be able to operate in Britain under total immunity from prosecution for their actions.