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Let’s make a deal: as you are an MEP now, let’s explore and compare these issues with the U.K. (alternatively you could just do cheap propaganda, but would you want that to be your life’s goal?). So let me start on ‘the EU’s not interested in reforming’ (thread)
In 2011 the EU established a transparency register for lobbyists. It was reviewed in 2014. Here’s the legal text eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
How is that going? By law, annual reports are published. Here’s the one for 2018 ec.europa.eu/transparencyre…
But what about MEPs, you say? Key MEPs on projects have to publish their meetings with lobbyists on the EP website. See here europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headli…
And money? What about money they receive? Here’s the code of conduct of MEPs stating they have to declare it europarl.europa.eu/pdf/meps/Code%…
Ironically the head of your party violated that, receiving money and failing to declare - corruption as you would say.
Btw - here’s what someone who has to register in the transparency register says about it
Now is the EU perfect on transparency ? Of course not. Is it better than some countries? Of course. Better than the U.K.? Who knows? My guess is that both sides can improve and learn from each other. That could be the job of an MEP
None of that means we should stay in the EU. Not wanting to be part of a supranational organisation is sufficient reason to leave. We don’t need to invent stuff. Or say stuff that actually applies to Westminster in equal measure...
