Another Example of the Abuse of Power

The above photo is of Obama's motorcade on the coast road on the east coast of Oahu, Hawaii.  Some will protest this amount of protection is a waste of public money, but let's remember Obama is a politician elected by the American people.

Who do you think said the following:

When Barack Obama goes on vacation, is he not the president of the United States? When Nicolas Sarkozy goes on vacation, is he no longer the president of France?,

Well done those of you who said a spokesman for -

Herman, the unelected President of the European Council, is in trouble for using his motorcade as a taxi service to run his family from Brussels to Paris (and back) to get a flight to and from their private holiday, thought to be in the Caribbean.

Mr Van Rompey lives in Sint-Genesius-Rode, a leafy Brussels suburb, less than 10 miles from the city's Gare du Midi where there are frequent high-speed train services to Paris and other European capitals.

"All costs of the private part of the holiday, down to the last euro, were met by the president," his spokesman said.  "The security requirement was paid for out of his office budget." (My emphasis).

Just to ensure you know where your money's gone, the motorcade taking the 162 mile single trip - undertaken twice - chauffeured Van Rompey, his wife and four children, two of their spouses and two grandchildren.

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Lord David Stoddart - "A very expensive insult"

Lord Stoddart of Swindon (formerly Labour and now independent Labour) is co-president of the Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIB) with Sir Richard Body. He was chairman for 23 years.

Although some people consider CIB is more or less a Tory organisation one of their affiliates is LESC (Labour Euro Safeguards Campaign) and they have committee members from both main parties, UKIP and those who are not in any party.

The Reading-based peer has dubbed the newly created President of the EU a "very expensive insult". In a response from the government's Lord Astor of Hever, Lord Stoddart was informed that the annual cost of Herman van Rompuy, including his staff, travel expenses and salary, is six million euro of £4.98m.

Lord Astor admitted: "The cost is being met this year from within the EU's annual budget, using funds which had been previously allocated to other Council projects".

Lord Stoddart said:

"President van Rompuy is a very expensive insult to the taxpayers of Europe.

"He is unelected, having been chosen during a dinner. His annual salary of £273,814 is greater than that of President Obama and, although funded by the taxpayer, he cannot be voted out of office."

He added: "However, this is a drop in the ocean compared to the £252 million being spent on the creation of a palace for him to work in. President van Rompuy is part of the new overpaid and unelected political elite which is now the real Government of Britain and all the other member states."

I wish there were some like the good Lord on the Tory and Libdem back benches.

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Meet the President of Europe

Herman Van Rompuy is the first President of the European Union which, with the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by all the 27 EU member states in early November, was transformed into a genuine United States of Europe, state the Brussels Journal.

In order to understand Mr Van Rompuy, the article has a brief history of Belgium - an artificial state constructed by the international powers in 1830 as a political compromise and experiment.

Belgians do not like their state. They despise it. They say it represents nothing. There are no Belgian patriots, because no-one is willing to die for a flag which does not represent anything. Because Belgium represents nothing, multicultural ideologues love Belgium. They say that without patriotism, there would be no wars and the world would be a better place. As John Lennon sang “Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too.”

In this position he had to prevent Parliament, and the Flemish representatives there, from voting a bill to split BHV. He succeeded in this, by using all kinds of tricks. One day he even had the locks of the plenary meeting room changed so that Parliament could not convene to vote on the issue. On another occasion, he did not show up in his office for a whole week to avoid opening a letter demanding him to table the matter. His tactics worked.

Read more here.

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