This reminds me how Republican John Boehner forces so called Tea Party candidates elected to congress into towing the GOP RINO neo-statist party line.
I’m also reminded of the Left’s vitriolic criticism of Bat Ye’or’s book, Eurabia, as a conspiracy driven novel, when in fact it’s an accurate study and analysis of the EU’s step by step policy of appeasement to the Arab Block states, becoming more Islamophile (and dhimmi-like) at the expense of normal relations with the fellow democracy of Israel.
I bring this up due to the fact that there exists within the EU a subculture in which a participating member (EU MEP and bureaucrats) must immerse themselves in, and acclimate themselves, in order to survive in the institution. The new member must act and speak the same vocabulary as the rest, failure to do so, unless protected by the party that sent them there, results in a one term experience.
NOTE: Then there is pure bribery to help the newbie to get his/her mind right, of which everyone of these turncoats should be sent packing by the voter.
Breaking the Resistance: How Brussels Is Integrating Its Euro-Skeptics
One year ago, more euro-skeptics got elected to the European Parliament than ever before, including a number of MEPs from Austria, Britain, France and Greece. They wanted to attack Europe from within, but instead the EU transformed them.
When Jonathan Arnott thinks about Europe, what he sees is a soulless, bureaucratic monstrosity. Sofia Sakorafa views it as an system of repression. Barbara Kappel sees it as a failed economic experiment, while Edouard Ferrand sees in Europe an attack on everything his country has achieved.
Arnott, Sakorafa, Kappel and Ferrand were all elected to the European Parliament one year ago. They are four out of 751 parliamentarians, and all four are new to Brussels. Arnott is a math teacher from Sheffield, England. Sakorafa was a track and field athlete before becoming a politician and grew up in Tikala, a small city in Greece. Kappel graduated with a degree in economics and hails from Tyrol in Austria. And Ferrand was born in Lyon and worked as an investment advisor in Paris.
The four didn’t know each other prior to European Parliament elections in May 2014. And they have little in common — except for one thing. They view themselves as resistance fighters with a common enemy: the European Union. They are right-wing populists like Ferrand, a Frenchman, who is a member of Front National; Kappel, an Austrian with the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ); and the Brit Arnott of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). But Sakorafa is a leftist radical from Greece and a member of the governing Syriza party. They all ran for office in order to wrest power from Brussels, an undertaking supported by a large number of people in Europe. Indeed, almost one-third of the members of European Parliament belong to the anti-EU camp — more than ever before.
