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Nasty Shock for David Cameron as Peer Gets Government to Expose Full Scale of Huge Salaries Paid to EU Officials
Friday, 16th July 2010
Lord Stoddart of Swindon
The Government has provided a stunning reply to a question from independent Labour Peer, Lord Stoddart of Swindon on the levels of salaries paid to EU officials. In a written reply (13.7.10), Lord Howell of Guildford, for the Government, has revealed not just that all 27 European Commissioners earn more than the Prime Minister but that a further 300 EU officials are on a pay scale which starts at a 'minimum' that is greater than Mr Cameron's £142,500 salary.
Lord Stoddart, commenting on the Government's response 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."
