Douglas Carswell

Nothing too grand for the Eurocrats

I popped over to Brussels this week to meet team UKIP in the European parliament.

One thing that struck me was the sheer scale of the EU's imperial ambition. It is reflected in the architecture of the parliament building, with its sweeping glass and chrome façade. It is moulded in the art that litters the corridors. It is etched on the faces of the Euro grandees that strut around the coffee bars and corridors.

If only folk back home could see this, I kept thinking.....

So here are a few photos that try to capture that atmosphere of Euro entitlement.

With so many vested corporate interests embedded in the EU corridors of power, there are special signs for lobbyists (Hat tip Steven Woolfe).

The coffee counter has two separate queues; one for mere mortals, the other for Euro politicians.

Outside the parliament building were several thousand Euro lefties on strike. They were protesting that they, too, should be allowed to live at someone else's expense.

The productive base in Europe today is no longer big enough to sustain a bloated welfare burden. And the EU grandees are too encased in their chauffer driven world to do anything about it.

No wonder Europe's economy is such a mess .....

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