Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-19-Speech-2-030"
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"en.20070619.5.2-030"2
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".
Mr President, this report says that the British Government should set up a compensation scheme for victims. A report in the
newspaper interpreted that as meaning that there would be full compensation
if only!
Throughout our committee’s investigations, we saw almost no party politics. It was a search for the facts, despite the refusal of key witnesses to face our questions. But then, towards the end, party politics inevitably kicked in and this report is a pale shadow of what it might have been. It has few teeth and it does not bite hard enough. The British Parliamentary Ombudsman has deliberately delayed her report on the same subject to trump this one, as the committee was warned would happen. Instead of directly helping victims, this one will be discredited and undermined by a deceitful ploy of the British Government that is afraid to face up to its obligations. This report should have categorically insisted on full compensation for all victims, regardless of their status. It should have called for the British Government to reimburse them for their hardship and the damages they have suffered. Above all, it should have demanded that the British Government implement such a scheme without equivocation and without delay. Tragically, it does none of these things.
Not much has emerged from the EU for the direct benefit of ordinary individuals in the UK, but this was just for once an opportunity to prove that the EU could be of real help to real people. It is well known that I am no supporter of British membership of this institution, but even I thought that this was a golden opportunity for the federalists to prove their worth. It was an open goal and they have missed it.
Over 30 years ago, when I was still scriptwriting for a living, a major life insurance company
not this one
asked me to write their entire training programme. Afterwards I was so appalled that I sold all my life policies. Thirty years on, it seems nothing has changed."@en1
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"Scotland on Sunday"1
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