It's certainly saddening that for ~1mm people, there is no party that is more closely aligned to their views than the BNP, but hopefully it will trigger policy adjustments in the rest of the political spectrum to pull back some of that ground.
As for the corruption - let's be frank, the MP's expenses scandal is pretty insignificant on the grand scale of institutional corruption. It's beer money compared with what goes on elsewhere. It's nothing compared to arms and oil related backhanders in the middle east. It's nothing compared to Silvio Berlusconi passing a law in Italy to grant himself immunity to prosecution. It's nothing compared to the amount of fraud going on in the EU, especially in agriculture and MEP expenses. Contrast what has happened here to how the EU treated whistleblowers such as Marta Anderson. Yes, it's bad, and needs fixing right away, but it's important to keep a sense of perspective.
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Date: 2009-06-08 03:05 pm (UTC)As for the corruption - let's be frank, the MP's expenses scandal is pretty insignificant on the grand scale of institutional corruption. It's beer money compared with what goes on elsewhere. It's nothing compared to arms and oil related backhanders in the middle east. It's nothing compared to Silvio Berlusconi passing a law in Italy to grant himself immunity to prosecution. It's nothing compared to the amount of fraud going on in the EU, especially in agriculture and MEP expenses. Contrast what has happened here to how the EU treated whistleblowers such as Marta Anderson. Yes, it's bad, and needs fixing right away, but it's important to keep a sense of perspective.