A NEW Clash of the Titans

Oil prices and exchange rates reflect the battleground where present international crises are being played out before the blind eyes of Europe's sleaze ridden politicians, read here. In the UK it is the evidence before the so-called "Standards Committee" (as if any now remained) regarding the Speaker's marital partners addiction to taxis while in Strasbourg we finally get a view of the MEP expense scam which is linked from my "Strasbourg Cesspit" blog, linked here.

Sleaze pros

Britain's biggest selling tabloid, The Sun, sums things up well in its leader today, linked from here: Sleaze pros

EURO MPs are pulling off scams that make our own greedy MPs look like amateurs.

A shocking report into Brussels MPs’ expenses has been hidden in a bunker for fear it will destroy the EU Parliament’s authority.

Stories emerge of MPs helping themselves to £125,000 by pretending it is for office help.

They already boost their £62,000 salaries with lavish travel and attendance expenses.

Brussels is awash with corruption.

MPs cheerfully rob the public purse. Officials produce accounts so dodgy that not even the EU Commission’s own auditors will sign them off.

And at the heart of the EU is a discredited farming policy that positively encourages fraud on a massive scale. Picking up the bill are British taxpayers.

Gordon Brown has betrayed us by refusing a referendum on further EU integration.

So will he tell us why Britain should be run by this bunch of crooks?