Saturday, 4th July 2009

What a gravy train!

Bill Andrews, St Paul's Bay

Now that the dust has settled and our MEPs have been duly elected, should we not ask ourselves whether (with the exception of one who has more than proved his worth and shall remain nameless, but his initials are SB ) they have leapt onto the gravy train? For what a gravy train it is.

A €92,000 salary plus a subsistence allowance of €298 a day. From July, there will also be €260 a week travel allowance and an office allowance in addition to a staff pension.

It is now known, thanks to a leaked internal audit by British MEP Chris Davies, that some MEPs pocketed €175,000 last year as office allowance for non-existent staff.

Pass the gravy someone !

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Comments

mike turner (on 4/7/09)

What an uninformed and blinkered opinion. To anyone who actually follows what goes on in Brussels in some detail, the work carried out by Joseph Muscat and Louis Grech was far more responsible and effective than the butterfly involvement of SB, who sells himself to a gullible public with the co-operation of local media, instead of really working hard for Malta. We need MEP's who work hard for Malta in the EU, not for the EU in Malta.

Joseph Mizzi (on 4/7/09)

Why don't you walk the talk, Bill? We'll be waiting with bated breath for the 2014 elections: Bill Andrews for MEP!

If you can't beat them, why not join them?