Satellite Insanity

Open Europe reports on the Labour MP heading the Commons Transport Committee on thw Gallilleo Project as follows: In an interview with the Today Programme Dunwoody said the UK would have to contribute 17% of the estimated £10 billion costs, and noted that the project will be decided by a qualified majority vote, saying, "frankly, two thirds of the people voting would not need to make any contribution." She said, "This is not one pig flying in orbit, this is a herd of pigs with gold trotters, platinum tails and diamond eyes! And we ought to be asking ourselves, 'where is our common sense?' Are we really saying we're so frightened of the Americans that we must fling gold bars at something that we don't even know is going to work?"