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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Adopt
American style judges, prison sentences and prisons

our justice system is a total joke and laughing stock in its
lenient sentences, cushy open jails with tv, computers, gyms
rife with drugs and is absolutely no deterrent to season
crooks...

I. The Commission's nineteenth-century attitude to transparency

Sometimes it's clear MEPs are totally clueless about how the EU works.

For example the Commission gives out hundreds of millions of euros every
year in grants to NGOs. These are sometimes famous organisations like Oxfam,
and sometimes naked federalist campaigners like the European Movement. Some
do excellent work, others are just a parasitic drain on the taxpayer.

You'd think Parliament would have a strong grip of the issues - carefully
monitoring how taxpayers' money is spent, holding people accountable, their
eagle eyes watching out for irregularities.

But despite the colossal amounts involved, MEPs regularly bleat "can the
Commission please tell me which NGOs it is funding?" And the Commission
replies "No, we can't. We can't account simply and comprehensively for the
money we give out. Please check the website of individual DGs where you may
or may not be able to find some peremptory and meaningless list of grants".