European Pensions for the Elite Few

So the European Court of Justice as ruled that retired E.U. Eurocrats only have to pay 8% tax on their pensions instead of the prevaling income tax in their country of residence. Pensions paid from the taxes of mostly much lower paid and higher taxed tax payers.  Presumably the same rule will apply to the pensions of the Judges who came up with the this Land mark decision.  Rules most people have never hear of made probably 50 years ago giving preference to a small Unelected elite minority who now control the lives of hundreds of millions of European citizens.

With European leaders pressurising the peoples of Greece and Spain and other countries in financial difficulties to tighten their financial belts and most countries have brought in austerity budgets to reduce their deficities this decision does strike of hypocricy. But then these kind of decisions are what we have come to expect from a European Parliament out of touch with most of the citizens of Europe.

When most people are struggling with their ever tightening every day budgets, reading of this kind of extraordinary excess for an elite minority - along with all the rules and red-tape issueing from Europe - makes the thought of Britain staying in the European Union more and more distasteful.

Anyone old enough who voted on the issue in 1975 may remember Harold Wilson promising a better future for the British people by being part of the Common Market. Most voters assumed this to be a trading block not what we have to-day - a Political Union of the States of Europe, run by unelected unaccountable officials seamingly for their own convenience. Anyone under about 50 has never had a chance to have their say on the issuse which is blighting the lives of so many ordinary people.

 http://www.harvard-digital.co.uk/euro/pamphlet.htm

The sooner the politicians in Westminster let the British people have their say in a referendum the better for the whole country.