UKIP Scotland
Look who's joined the EU Gravy Train
Tuesday, 23rd February 2010
For the next five years, 24 elected representatives will be the voice of Britain 's local councils and devolved assemblies in Brussels . On 9 February 2010, they took up their work as members of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), the EU's assembly of local and regional representatives, and elected Councillor Gordon Keymer, leader of Tandridge District Council in Surrey , as head of their national delegation.
The Scottish MSP's and Councillors below are the latest group to join the EU Gravy Train as the new UK delegation in the EU regional and local assembly.
Members sit in one of four political groups – EPP, PES (Labour), ALDE (LibDems) and EA (SNP Scotch (supra-) nationalists)– or remain non-aligned (NA). All the Tories are described as "NA" (non-attached) - now that the Conservatives have distanced themselves from the EPP - but that didn't stop the UK-members electing Keymer as their leader. So much for Conservative "EU-scepticism"!
Ted BROCKLEBANK MSP (NA), Member of the Scottish Parliament
Irene OLDFATHER MSP (PES), Member of the Scottish Parliament
Nicol STEPHEN MSP (ALDE), Member of the Scottish Parliament
Cllr Graham GARVIE (ALDE), Member of Scottish Borders Council
Cllr Roger KNOX (EA), Member of East Lothian Council
Stewart MAXWELL MSP (EA), Member of the Scottish Parliament
Cllr Corrie MCCHORD (PES), Member of Stirling Council
Cllr Sandy PARK (EA), Member of the Highland Council
Click here to find out more about the Committee of the Regions (CoR)
“As councillors representing Scotland at the Committee of the Regions, we look forward to the new powers that the CoR has been granted by the recently approved Lisbon Treaty.
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