WHEN your letter receives reply, it shows the issue it discusses is seen as important.
Two such replies (10 June) on the subject of EU bureaucracy do need some serious correction.
Geoffrey Smith’s comparison of EU civil servant pay with David Cameron’s pay is not comparing like-for-like in that it ignores Cameron’s perks and expenses.
The conventional gross pay comparison shows there are 205 EU bureaucrats earning more than David Cameron, not 10,000. A further comparison, 320 of our UK bureaucrats also earn more than David Cameron.
Geoffrey Smith as well as Robert Reeks both misrepresent the workings of the EU.
Donald Tusk and Jean Claude Juncker do not dictate EU policy. And the Council of Ministers comprises Europe’s prime ministers including David Cameron. So in reality it is not unelected and not unaccountable.
Geoffrey Smith says Juncker was elected by the EU parliament who ‘out-voted the UK by 27 to 1’. The vote was actually 422 to 250.
If the UK were constantly ‘out-voted by 27 to 1’ we would do well to question our membership.
But such a situation only exists in the over-active imagination of those already convinced we should leave.
In the real world it is a fantasy.
DR MARTIN RODGER
Bloxworth Road, Poole
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