Running scared in Poland

EUobserver is reporting today that the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, is so concerned about the popularity of Libertas that he has asked the Polish EU Commissioner, Danuta Hubner,  to run against us in June.

While obviously we feel that Libertas is going to cause a political storm in June, it's always nice to see that the opposition feels the same way! Wouldn't you just love to see Peter Mandelson running on the Labour MEP lists too? *

Ms Hubner said she considered the June elections of particular importance, because it would be the first time they would be about Europe, not just national issues.

"This is because of the treaty and the new political group - Libertas - which will raise issues to which we will have to react strongly. "

I would rather that she actually listened to what we are calling for and tried to implement some of it. Why do these Brussels elites insist on  circling the waggons instead of bringing us in to discuss how we can rescue the future of Europe? Do they really not understand that they have no right to continue with the Constitution/Lisbon Treaty after it has been rejected by the public in three member nations?

Libertas is offering a positive alternative vision for how Europe should be run, and the EU would be wise to listen. The Commissioners shouldn't be 'reacting strongly', they should be rethinking the whole EU model from scratch as we are proposing.

On the plus side, she is crediting us with making the elections about European issues, or more accurately what kind of EU we have, instead of about national issues.

But who elected her anyway? No one is the answer. She is an unelected bureaucrat taking a very active political role; exactly the kind of thing that we are fighting against.

Could it be that she is frightened that she would be out of a job if we got our way and ditched all of the unelected Commissioners perhaps?

* Yes, I know that Peter Mandelson is no longer our EU Commissioner, but he is a far better representative of everything wrong with the EU than Baroness Ashton, who you've probably never heard of.