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Outrage at EU staff earning more than PM

Wednesday, 14th July 2010

More than 300 fat cat EU bureaucrats earn more than Prime Minister David Cameron, admitted a government peer yesterday.

Answering a written question tabled by Lord Stoddart of Swindon, Lord Howell of Guildford, confessed that all 27 EU commissioners earn more than Mr Cameron’s £142,500 and, more amazingly, that a further 300 EU officials are on a pay scale which starts higher than the PM’s salary.

Commenting on the government’s response to his question, Lord Stoddart said: "These statistics are quite staggering and reveal that there is an unelected governing elite in Brussels, with golden remuneration packages that are an insult to the taxpayer which subsidises them. 

"It is worth noting that we are only talking about salaries here.  These grandiose officials will have many other perks including lavish expenses of which ordinary working people can only dream. 

"It would appear that by comparison to this pampered and overpaid elite that our Prime Minister is a somewhat underpaid office junior!  It seems that the European Commissioners and their staff are well insulated from the effects of the economic downturn.

"Britain needs a Government with both the will and the political strength necessary to put an end to this madness."

Read the full House of Lords exchange in Hansard
Read about how the UK is awash with EU legislation

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