Take a steel plant in Teeside. Add in a curious British MEP - democratically elected by the people. Add a dash of climate change and the President of the European Commission and what do you get?
When UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall stood up in the European Empire yesterday and asked questions about the Corus steel plant on Teeside, Corus owners Tata, carbon credits, and the head of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri...
...up stood EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to urge Pachauri to take Nuttall to court for asking the questions that he asked.
What a very interesting idea of democracy that is. Of course, the European Empire long since stopped even pretending to be about democracy.
As a sovereign nation, our British politicians have for hundreds of years been able to ask whatever they wish within the House of Commons and the House of Lords, free from any legal consequence under the constitutional right of Parliamentary privilege.
Not in the European Empire. Ask a question there and you may find yourself propelled into a court of law.
Thought crime, anyone?
Any British people feel rather uncomfortable about any of this?
We do.
Question arising from this is what - if anything - was so uncomfortable about what Paul Nuttall, democratically elected representative of the people, was asking..?
Meanwhile, we can think of four and a half billion embarrassing reasons why the European Empire should be very quiet about carbon trading...
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