Ukip MEP Jonathan Arnott was
greeted with boos and calls of “oh no we don’t” as he compared the whole EU
project to a pantomime.
Addressing the chamber, Mr
Arnott said: “As it’s Christmas, let’s compare this to an annual pantomime. The
budget committee, the Commission, the European Parliament, we all vote for more
EU, more spending, more taxpayers money being thrown at this
project.”
Referring to a
Ukip proposal to make cuts to the EU budget, he quipped: “Saving money for
ordinary people, well that
makes us the pantomime villain, so you lot all boo.”
After some MEPs in the
chamber booed, he carried on saying “oh yes you do”, to which they replied in
true pantomime tradition “oh no we don’t”.
Blasting the largesse of the EU,
he added: “Labour and Conservatives vote against whatever we come up with and
that shows sometimes how much they seem to care about saving money for ordinary
people.
“And everybody lives happily
ever after. Everybody, of course, except the general public who have to pay for
all of it despite in the UK’s case having voted for Brexit.
“I sometimes don’t know whether
this is a pantomime or a Kafka-esque farce. Well, the British public voted for
Brexit and we’re going to write the last chapter, we’re going to play the final
act, and we’re going to lower the curtain on this tragedy.”
The budget increase comes after
EU officials voted themselves a massive 3.3 per cent backdated pay rise, despite
the fact that wages have stagnated and even fallen in most EU member
states.
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