Jonathan Arnott, UKIP’s North East
MEP, said “The vote surrounding GM crops contained 51 amendments. Unfortunately,
due to the undemocratic ‘bloc voting’ system within the European Parliament, a
vote for this amendment would also have been a vote for the other 50 - some of
which would have been detrimental to the UK taxpayer.
“As a
result, I felt I had no choice but to abstain on the vote, despite supporting
the principle of allowing members states to restrict GM crops if they so wish.”
J.A.
(I believe that this is the same kind of situation which arose and meant
that the last parliament's crop of UKIP MEPs were trapped into having to vote
against an amendment designed to protect elephants because of all the dross
surrounding it. THIS IS UNDEMOCRATIC. Ironically, those MEPs then received a bad
press!)
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