Confrontation with the fact who among our compatriots were deemed appropriate legislators by several of those would certainly bring home to the British people, among others, the reality of those to whose legislative will we were subject both in the European Parliament and in the Council of Ministers. The Council of Ministers, in which we are now being legislated for by the totally unelected governments of Italy and Greece. http://www.furniturehq.org/

As rules stand we can not do much if people elect undesireables entitled to office expenses. The present re-emergence of "kick the cat politics" does show the consequences of not grasping the nettles of building a just society - people go for displacement activities and a certain type of cynical property owner does not object if it keeps Parliament away from a fairer distribution.

I don't understand the objection to anti-semites in the European Parliament, so long as they represent their constituencies (anti-semitism is a natural feature of "Christendom").

I agree with the rest of your objection to the to the selection of and money distribution among MEPs.

The BNP are national socialists - they actually have alot in common with the the writer of this article.

If it wasnt for social engineering and mass immigration the BNP wouldnt exist.

You see the Tory party are not true conservatives, they have never been since Thatcher came in - that is where UKIP shine, because they want 1950s style conservatism, not neo liberalism.

Why the objection to these parties getting money? They are democratically elected parties and probably a damn site more committed to free speech than the left who want to censor everyone who says anything they disagree with.No one hates rational debate more than the left.

Oh yes, Mr Denise Macshane i remember you, our former lackey for all things Europe, who desperately tried to tarnish Nigel Farage and UKIP with false allegations and dragging them into the expenses scandal . While fiddling expenses himself.

You are a festering piece of puss Mr Macshane.

Based on its geographical distribution, half of the UKIP vote for Strasbourg must be Old Labour or Old Liberal rather than Old Tory. Add together the Tory and UKIP votes, and you get far too many "natural Tories" in London, or either of the Midland regions, or any of the Northern regions, or the South West.

If the Council of Ministers met in public and published an Official Report akin to Hansard, until which time British Ministers ought to adopt the show-stopping Empty Chair Policy, then there would be no need for a European Parliament or Assembly of any kind.

The sort of characters who turn up in the Council of Ministers would continue to make the most important point made by the European Parliament, namely that our participation in the EU subjects us to the legislative will of Stalinists and Trotskyists, neo-Fascists and neo-Nazis, members of Eastern Europe's kleptomaniac nomenklatura, neoconservatives such as now run France and Germany, people who believe the Provisional Army Council to be the sovereign body throughout Ireland, Dutch ultra-Calvinists who will not have women candidates, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit of das da (have a Google). Soon to be joined by Turkey’s Islamists, secular ultranationalists, and violent Kurdish Marxist separatists.

There could usefully be in the European Parliament one citizen of each member-state appointed by the Leader of each of the Groups (pretendy EU-wide parties) of elected MEPs, and the same by the representative of the non inscrits on the Conference of Presidents. Or even a whole Senate, a second chamber of such appointees, with each member-state having a number of Senators equal to its number of votes in the Council of Ministers when Qualified Majority Voting was employed.

Confrontation with the fact who among our compatriots were deemed appropriate legislators by several of those would certainly bring home to the British people, among others, the reality of those to whose legislative will we were subject both in the European Parliament and in the Council of Ministers. The Council of Ministers, in which we are now being legislated for by the totally unelected governments of Italy and Greece.

Is Denis MacShane finally starting to see the point?

Perhaps this signatory both to the Henry Jackson Society and to the Euston Manifesto might care to explain how this is any worse than the funding of Stalinist and Trotskyist parties, or how that funding is any better than this?

The Polish Law and Justice Party deservea better British allies. Like the Catholic and other Labour MPs, including John Smith, who fought tooth and nail against abortion and easier divorce. Like the Methodist and other Labour MPs, including John Smith, who fought tooth and nail against deregulated drinking and gambling. Like those, including John Smith, who successfully organised (especially through USDAW) against Thatcher’s and Major’s attempts to destroy the special character of Sunday and of Christmas Day, delivering the only Commons defeat of Thatcher’s Premiership. And like the trade unionists who battled to secure paternal authority in families and communities by securing its economic base in high-waged, high-skilled, high-status male employment, frequently marching behind banners that depicted Biblical scenes and characters.

The Czech Civic Democrats deserve British allies like the trade unionists who have spent decades defending the high-waged, high-skilled, high-status jobs of the working class. Not for us the restriction of travel to the rich, or the arresting of economic development in the poorer parts of the world.

The Latvian Fatherland and Freedom Party deserves British allies with deep roots in the former mining communities, in the women’s suffrage movement, in the 1945 General Election victory, and elsewhere. We are unsullied by the weird cult of Winston Churchill. Instead, we can and do condemn his carve-up of Europe with Stalin. Just as we condemn genocidal terrorism against Slavs and Balts no less than genocidal terrorism against Arabs, or the blowing up of British Jews going about their business as civil servants, or the photographed hanging of teenage British conscripts with barbed wire. Just as we condemn Ronald Reagan’s laying of a wreath at an SS cemetery in Germany, and the Clintons’ annual wreath-laying at Confederate memorials in Arkansas. Just as we condemn SS revivalism from Denmark and Flanders to Bosnia and Kosovo. And just as we condemn the neo-Nazi cesspit that was the 1980s Radical Right. Whatever happened to the 1980s Radical Right, Dave?

And they all deserve British allies like the Labour MPs who mostly voted against Heath’s Treaty of Rome, who all voted against Thatcher’s Single European Act, and who voted against Major’s Maastricht Treaty in far greater numbers than the Tories, including the only resignation from either front bench in order to do so. Those parties need these British allies in order to call them away from neoliberal economics and neoconservative foreign policy, both of which have in any case collapsed. Nothing could be more destructive of national self-government, or traditional family values, or the historical consciousness of a people. Cameron is completely signed up to both.

"The decision to award money to anti-semitic parties shows where the EU is going wrong" What's the matter!! Didn't the New Statesman get it's slice of the pie?

Love the idea that EMS is regarded by McShane was the best known Tory MEP. He cannot have heard of Hannan.