Another day, another demeaning headline...this time for the Tories. Nationally our main parties and their Ministers and MPs, and of course our own Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Cabinet, have been completely discredited. There can be no excuses. These professional politicians will still attempt to tell you, the public, that they are the best people to run your country. Yet we’re all now pretty convinced that this is actually not the case.

Yet as the European elections draw near, there seems to me still to be a disarming level of disengagement with European politics. Given that even more power than that of our national state is wielded by the ‘super state’ of the European Union, and that even larger levels of dishonesty, corruption and foul play have taken place over the last 14 years and more, it seems astonishing that we do not have the same drive or need to name, shame and hold to account as we do here in the UK – and we must if Europe is to work and meet its full and very real potential.

Exercising our disdain at our current nation’s representatives and their corrupt behaviour seems a little futile if we, the people, fail to do something about the anti-democratic, often corrupt and plain farcical way the European Parliament and its Members conduct themselves. The EU must be representative of all Member States and operate with a level of integrity missing from politics at present, in order to safeguard the future of the European Union. European politics has to evolve to work and Libertas are the only credible alternative for the future. This is why I am passionate and fully behind Robin Matthews and Libertas in the UK and agree when they say ‘Europe can work’.