Eurocrat Staff Walk Out Over Tiny Budget Cut
Bonkers Eurocrats in Brussels are going on strike over “cuts” to the EU Budget. The European Federation of Public Service Unions is calling for EU staff to walk out on Thursday due to what they claim is austerity, or what members of the reality based community would call €1 billion in efficiency savings. A concerned EU staffer emailed Guido this morning – needless to say they are not joining the barricades:
“My colleagues really are the most grasping ingrates in recent history. Millions across the EU are suffering, and we are going on strike to ensure we can afford that second tax free limo. Blind to the suffering of others and inoculated from the real world they cannot rip themselves away from the taxpayer teat”.
These are the people Cameron is letting call the tune by continuing to oppose a real term budget cut.
“My colleagues really are the most grasping ingrates in recent history.”
Has he never heard of British M.P.’s?
Those of us, the political elite, deserve and are entitled to our money, it is our human right to be rich and you flocking plebs can flock off!
You meant to say ‘your money’, of course.
Some on the stories going on about what happened in this country is horrible. Its almost like what Saddam’s eldest son had been accused of doing.
If it is true I cannot simply understand why Mrs Thatcher and John Major did know. Some are saying they were informed.
I cannot even understand why Rupert’s papers didn’t expose it, if it is true. Still his news media could but hasn’t.
Your rumours take the heat of the ol’ BBC innit?
how much did the KINNOCKS make out of EURO land?
Answers on a gold postcard please with diamond ink in a sapphire platinum envelope.
C 8 n t s
And long may their strike last.
What a bunch of greedy c.unts
I expect the BBC will have been keen to run this.
SOSO ( sign on,sod off)
If they hadn’t announced it, how soon would anyone have noticed? On a related theme, this in the ES today: no comments allowed, for some reason:
‘The dole cheat of Notting Hill… who also had a Paris home’
They said she’d been a little bit naughty, to summarise.
Oh I’m not so sure you can compare the two.
Most of our lot are third rate expenses fiddlers and cash for influence merchants, with very weak control structures to prevent abuse.
The EU has absolutely no such measures of control and is openly corrupt. 17 years on and still no auditor will go near signing the EU’s accounts off. That alone tells you that corruption is immense and widespread and what’s more, nobody even thinks that the vast level of theft and misappropriation of public funds, is an issue worth looking into.
Our venal liars stink westminster up, but you can smell the stench of EU corruption from across the channel.
I fully support this strike and this blog should get right behind it.
+1 May it last for months, years is probably too much to hope for.
At least the real USSR banned people from going on strike…
Not really too much to hope for Golem;they have probably squirelled away a substantial stash of taxpayers money to see them through for a lifetime. Thieving bas tards.
Let them walk out and keep on walking until they die. Who will miss them? Really?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9657673/Anger-as-EU-budget-fails-to-get-clean-bill-of-health-for-18th-year-in-a-row.html
Anger as EU budget fails to get clean bill of health for 18th year in a row
British opposition to EU budget increases will harden today after its auditor’s report failed to give a clean bill of health to £89 billion (€111.2bn) of spending “affected by material error”.
Let them eat cake
Send them to Greece
Fry them in grease
Even in UK some departments accounts haven’t been signed off for years. As I understand DWP is one of them. But it never bothers people like you. EU is a problem but its a small problem compared to what is happening in this country.
As a Georgist I’d get rid of all the failure reward systems. Just a Citizens dividend funded by an Location-Value-Tax.
It does indeed bother people that good-for-nothing state departments with second-rate public sector workers can not do their jobs properly. But that does not mean that we should accept even more incompetence, greed and corruption on top of what taxpayers already have to fork out for.
It is alot easier for the UK to opt out of the EEC than it is for the UK to opt out of the UK!
Although British MP’s can be, at times, grasping, I don’t think anything really compares with the greed of the european parliamentary employees.
Troughing gits. Boaz.
pieces of shit
I remember walking into the lovely house in Brussels of a friend’s brother in law in 2000. A really beautiful place that anyone would be proud to own. I asked how he afforded it. Subsidised mortgage from his employer. Us.
Oh God no! Not another public sector strike! How will we manage?
I know, I know – it’ll be tough, but we’ll just have to cope. Perhaps we should sling another pointless regulation on the fire to keep us warm?
Help I think I bought some Jam from a Church fayre…
What do I do?
I wish there were more men like Tom Watson
Me too. It would free up a lot more women for more average-looking men such as myself.
“They [the cuts] put an additional threat on the fairness, efficiency and effectiveness of the EU policy and administration as a whole.”
http://www.epsu.org/a/9040
I’d say restricting their supply of funds is the only effective way of controlling the megalomania.
Restricting their air is more effective.
And much cheaper.
I doubt I’ll notice they are not at work
Neither will they.
This must be the perfect opportunity for De*nis Mac’No’Shame to
pass on his extensive expertise in all facets of the art of creative
accounting for this former European Minster until he brought to
trial & incarcerated for a very long time……..
Old news, the Tory pedro thing is gonna keep Penis Mclame well away from front pages…..
The Euro whatsinnitforme’s even make Mister MockShame look like a small innocent babe, Because these Euro Delboys and girls really know how to play and soak-out the system to their advantage.
McShame will probably try to get in there in the next EU elections, and they’re probably keeping a seat warm for Cleggers too.
Good news, it gives us Euroskeptics another stick with which to beat not so closet Liberal Dave. Anything that facilitates an expedient British exit has to be welcomed.
Yep. If they’re taking a day off that’s an automatic day’s pay saved. If we could somehow encourage them to go on strike for a month or two the austerity cuts would take care of themselves.
I don’t expect these bums will relinquish a day’s pay, i see/agree with your points however.
It will be an EUSSR strike in that they will be allowed to put down tools but will not be deducted a single Euro from their wages. Just you watch.
They will probably get a bonus.
That’s the deal the old local government union NALGO used to do with the employers. The bosses offered X% pay increase. The union asked for X+1%. The bosses refused. The workers had a rolling programme of strikes whereby the workers lost 0.5% of their annual pay. The bosses offered X-0.5%. All back to work. Great victory for the workers, havig ‘won’ X%.
Iaiaiaiaiaiaiain Duncan Shit is going bonkers with this revelation – Duncan Shit the lowest form of life in an appallingly bad government of c’unts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/05/iain-duncan-smith-adviser-lobbying
It’s in the Gurneyad so it must be true.
Didn’t Gordon and Bollokov plant any Money Trees in Brussels ?
We don’t want a budget cut. We want out. Those who want to stay in EU can get on and fund the lifestyle of these self serving folk. Britain needs to walk away and become a sovereign nation again.
Shame they can’t sack the lot of the overpaid, expense claiming scum.
This is the reaction the EUSSR and Europhile Dave provokes in me.
Time for the British Army to take over. Given our recent experience in Iraq and Afghanistan we’d rebuild the EU in half the time and at a fraction of the cost. You wouldn’t even have to house us while we did it – we’d just camp out in the open. Of course there would be some collateral damage, but who’s going to miss a few Eurocrats? And besides, Captain Wales would make an excellent EU Commissioner.
We don’t want to rebuild it . Let it go it’s own way to b a n k r u p t c y whilst we get out and rebuild our sovereignty.
Correct we want to burn the fucker to the ground and sow the Earth with salt. Evil mendavious thieving bastards.
How dare you talk about us like that.
When they walk out, can we lock the doors and keep ‘em out?
I wish. just imagine how much redtape would be got rid of if they’re not there to keep generating it.
Don’t forget the 29 peadoes in the B B C – Allegedly!
I’m free as a bird! Toot toot!
It makes me mad. These people get paid for doing nothing while they line their own pockets.
Think about Van Rumpoy when you’re castrating a pig Nadine.
Ahhhhh…. look at the background.
MORE PIES.
Shhh I mentioned PIE once but I think I got away with it.
They have every right to go on strike. Everyone should have a LIVING WAGE. The Labour party supports them every step of the way.
If people haven’t got a living wage already how come they are not dead?
Quite!
My benefits amount to more than the living wage and they’re solid as the Rock of Gibraltar.
Yes, let us hope that all the grasping f***ers who work for the EUSSR go on strike for ever. Then we won’t have to pay the pointless parasites.
They won’t be missed, so perhaps they can just furck orff for ever and a day.
These bureacrats display appalling avarice and a cavalier disrespect for the little people who pay the taxes that pay their inflated salaries, which are very softly taxed, pension contribs, expenses and perks.
The apparatchiks are revolting.
I fully support the living wage if I have a living profit for my small business
Imagine just having to go through the motions knowing that you are going to get paid at the end of the month ……………….don’t be stupid Kumberland, get back to work
Will you righties become all violent and insane if Obama wins tonight?
no, we have made other plans
Yeah, we know. When you don’t like the result, you resort to assassination.
No, But we’re all moving to Galt’s Gulch.
Will your mattress be soaked if he doesn’t?
It will be soaked wither way. Of course the left were a paragon of non-violent & sane opposition when Bush (PBUH) won and was re-elected.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!
Jeez, there are some fucking idiots among the armchair socialists community.
No, I’ll just laugh at these types.
For every redneck there is a whining bedwetter who wants his money.
And these are the people that mock British dentistry.
How can an Obama victory not happen? We have discovered that, due to a quirk in the law, we can cast ballots in Cleveland, Ohio. And we have been doing so in the “early voting” there. Obama’s people have bunged us a generous stipend to do so. Why leave election results, in the precincts where you need them, to chance?
Yeah. That’s why Bush won in 2000 and 2004.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57539706/congressmans-son-resigns-after-voter-fraud-video/
How come we couldn’t do that? Oh hang on, we’re not like Tower Hamlets.
out out out
i think the UK should fucking strike the EU govt
Preferable with a large BOMB
I’ve been saying that for years.
“My colleagues really are the most grasping ingrates in recent history.”
True enough, but it’s no way to talk about a party you’ve just joined.
Not at all, Jimmy. They are grasping ingrates, they live like emperors, please, I want to join.
The partying in Brussels has been going on for decades. Time to call it a day.
We are still waiting to party. She’s 87 and may still be around at 97.
‘Inoculated from the real world’? To avoid getting an infection from those dirty plebs?
Toxins and poison, congenitally bent
That’s what’s got elected to our Parliament
Those that aren’t share guilt by association
The whole lot’s Black Death to the British nation
I’m on a seafood diet … I see food and I eat it.
“You are John Prescott and I claim my five quid.”
One corny old line deserves another.
I too am on a seafood diet, I go to the shops and buy some fish, take it home, cook it and serve it on a plate, if I don’t want it on that day i will put it in the fridge, sometimes it goes in the freezer for later. On wednesday I dress up as a lady and take some meat by the back door.
How can we be sure that they are actually on strike?
Because they wont be able to claim as much in expenses while on strike. So I can’t see the strike lasting very long.
They will of course be entitled to double salary whiilst off on account of the EU strike hardship fund
Guido, propose your informant for Nobel Prize on honesty.
Have we collected our Nobel peace prize from the Norwegian fucktards yet?
Question is, can the Ig Nobel Awards compete any more when the Nobel Awards Committee have made themselves an object of ridicule ?
If the EU is serious about reducing costs in Europe then this stupid nonsense about having administrative centres in both Brussels and Strasbourg must stop .
And any location expenses band wagon should be parked in the station too .
Change date Easter 2013 .
How about the unelected monstrosity moving to a charming English seaside town such as Morecambe or Cleethorpes for the whole of August. The shopkeepers could do with the trade. The council could organise donkey rides and a tombola. The only problem I can see is the local whores would hike up their prices, maybe a voucher scheme could be put in force for locals so they can still get their handjobs for a tenner (15.23 euros)
Atlantis would be an altogether more suitable location.
I want to be a Eurocrat when I grow up.
Disgraceful.