Forty-three thousand euros a year to sell out your country

It is difficult to discover how much ex-officials and Commissioners of the EU might receive to continue working in the interests of this corrupt organisation once they retire, and so far impossible to learn the exact terms they may have agreed to continue to be beneficiaries of such ill-deserved payments, but I have found this from a BBC report, linked here, on Mandelson's 2.4 million pound house purchase which seems relevant: For example, the former French prime minister Edith Cresson, who was a commissioner for just four years in the 1990s - before helping to bring the whole Commission down in a corruption scandal - receives an annual pension of 43,000 euros (£29,000). This amount has by now probably been adjusted for inflation but nevertheless provides a good guide as to what the likes of Baron Tugendhat receives for his involvement in Business for Europe and votes in the House of Lords as I reported in my first posting on this blog today. 43,000 euros every year to continue selling out your country's parliament and the right of the people to periodically change their rulers - how low can such people stoop?