UKIP's attendance record in the European Parliament is worse than that of their counterparts from the three major parties.
UKIP’s attendance record in the European Parliament is worse than that of their counterparts from the three major parties, according to data compiled by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
Happy to sign-in and collect their allowances, UKIP’s nine MEPs have missed around a third of the votes in the European Parliament between 2009 and October 2013. They have also missed almost all of the ‘reports amended’ sessions in which MEPs lay down amendments to legislation.
This was once again demonstrated on Wednesday, when Europe voted on whether its Parliament should continue meeting in both Brussels and Strasbourg, after a long campaign highlighting the fact that it costs European taxpayers €180m to meet in two locations rather than one.
Despite UKIP claiming to be standing up for Britain against European bureaucracy, however, only four UKIP MEPs out of nine bothered to turn up to vote on the measure at all. And those that did turn up abstained – on a measure that would have trimmed spending and cut waste!
And yet despite only four UKIP MEPs turning up to vote on the ‘second seat’ rule on Wednesday, six UKIP MEPs signed in to claim their daily spending allowance.
In other words, some UKIP MEPs signed in and couldn’t even be bothered to abstain!
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66 Responses to “UKIP MEPs laziest in Europe”
Thoughtful Skeptic
So you’d rather do nothing than make an institution like the EP look good for demanding the right thing (for once)? So making the EP look bad is more important than trying to reduce waste on EU level? Thank you, you said enough.
Rallan
Look, do you understand the concept of debate? It requires you to respond to opposing arguments? Simply ignoring what other people say does not mean you win the debate.
Which part of “the vote was a cynical, empty deceit intended to make the EU Parliament look good” did you not understand? What about the point that there “was no prospect of it making a difference”? Which part of “UKIP is in the European Parliament to expose it, not to conspire in its deceptions” has you confused?
Cunt
Useless right-wing fuckers. These people want to run our country, and were, what? Meant to judge it based on their performance in the EU? Lazy cunts, spend their paycheck doing nothing, and expect you to grovel in admiration over their paranoid fantasies. Unbelievable.
cole
Appears Ukip’s purpose is to collect taxpayers’ money and do as little as possible. Scroungers.
cole
Kind of pathetic. 38 Degrees got about 150,000 in 48 hours opposing the Gagging Bill.