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The Paymasters Of Brussels
"Is there anyone out there who just happens independently to come to the view that the Lisbon Treaty is a Good Thing? Without being paid to say that, I mean?", asks Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph blogs.
The wise and venerable Archbishop Cranmer reports that Foreign Secretary David Miliband has been claiming, to general mirth, that the Commission of Bishops has "come out" in support of the Constitution.
Well, they would say that, wouldn't they? Not least because this "Roman Catholic-led ecumenical body (...) is financed by the European Union to produce reports singing the praises of said union with all glory, laud and honour."
This is a common European phenomenon: A few months ago, Hannan revealed how the European Commission brought together 500 "representatives of civil society" who just happened to belong to NGOs funded by Brussels. In other words, the EU pays organisations to tell it what it wants to hear, and presents this to the public as consultation.
Miliband defended the treaty by listing other organisations who had pledged their support for the Constitutional Treaty: Hannan has written a question to the European Commission demanding to know if its other NGO supporters had received any dosh for their contribution.
Makes Miliband's claim that "This is a coalition not of ideology, but integrity” sound like a sick joke, doesn't it?
