Happy New Year from Strasbourg
If you are rushing to complete your tax return, don't read this:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100019683/of-course-mps-should-pay-taxes-but-what-about-meps/
Nor are Eurocrats content with tax-free incomes. At a time when national civil servants are struggling to reduce costs, they are about to enjoy a handsome pay-rise:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100019622/eurocrats-threaten-to-strike-over-pay/
Meanwhile, at home, Labour has surely proved, to the meanest intelligence, its utter unfitness for office:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100021559/a-pantywaist-leader-for-a-pantywaist-party/
And its leader is consoling himself with a rather frightening poem:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100021943/invictus-the-inspiration-for-nelson-mandela-timothy-mcveigh-and-now-gordon-brown/
We learned that you can be sued for clearing the pavement outside your house:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100021829/sweep-away-the-snow-and-you-might-land-yourself-in-court/
And, in further evidence of our health-and-safety obsession, that Labour had squandered squillions on otiose swine 'flu vaccines:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100021804/the-cost-of-the-swine-flu-scare/
I don't want to end on a gloomy note. So, to cheer yourself up, have a look at the politician with the funniest name in Europe:
http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/AssemblyList/AL_MemberDetails.asp?MemberID=5246
Best wishes,
Daniel Hannan
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