Has anyone seen the table of MEP performance here: http://www.openeurope.org.uk/?“With elections to the European Parliament less than two weeks away, Open Europe has published a ranking of all 785 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), scoring their record on promoting transparency and reform in the European Union over the last five-year term.
The ranking seeks to answer some of the questions voters may be asking themselves ahead of the European elections.
Open Europe's league table is based on 20 different categories relating to transparency, accountability, democracy, and waste.”
MEPs are ranked using two main categories: ‘Transparency, openness and democracy’ and ‘Fighting waste and misuse of EU funds’.
Jean Lambert and Caroline score very well. Caroline is joint top of the UK MEPs (joint 10th in all), with Jean joint 23rd (joint 79thin all). Averaging the scores of the UK MEPs between the main parties gives a score per MEP (according to my quick calculations) of:
Green 39.50
Lib Dem 35.00
Conservative 31.61
Labour 29.95
UKIP 24.89
So the Green MEPs have performed the best (albeit an average score based on only 2 people), and UKIP are worst, which suggests that those planning to vote for UKIP in protest against the Tory / Labour expenses shenanigans will be voting for a party that is even less transparent and concerned with misusing public funds,
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