Blog - Richard Corbett MEP

UK Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber (visit his website at www.richardcorbett.org.uk)

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Hypocrisy knows no bounds among UKIPs MEPs!

UKIP was, of course, set up to oppose everything the EU does and to object as a matter of principle to the EU having any powers whatsoever. Yet here we have one of its MEPs, Mike Nattrass, calling for the European Union to ban bullfighting in Spain and saying that he will fight for that in the European Parliament!

Perfectly respectable to oppose bullfighting. Perfectly respectable to urge Spain to ban it (as Catalonia has already done) but a bit rich to ask the EU to override Spanish law on this matter (which could only be done by a massive increase in the EU's powers) whilst claiming to be against the EU in the first place!

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