Cut-price democracy

The Shadow Chancellor predicts that in today's budget, Alistair Darling will 'forecast the longest recession that Britain has had since World War II'.

Today we also see the vote in Strasbourg on whether the 120 million Euro deficit in MEPs controversial secondary pension scheme, will be plugged by taxpayers money – a pledge guaranteed by the European Parliament.

All this in the same week that former UKIP MEP, Tom Wise, faces possible criminal charges for false accounting and allegedly laundering some £40,000 of his expenses.

Is it any wonder that the electorate has lost its faith in European politics, when daily it seems that its agents abuse their position and disregard the money of those that they represent. Once again it is brought into sharp relief that the disparity between reality, and the imaginings of the current EU machine, is a widening gulf.

Voting for any of the traditional, national parties will just mean more of the same.

Only a pan European party will have the power to affect real change. Only Libertas is capable of delivering the change we need.