Stamp Out Sleaze Day 2

The second pledge has been released today: "I will attend at least 90% of Parliamentary days."

It is accompanied by a report that the average attendance of MEPs in the European Parliament is just 77%, dragged down somewhat by UKIP's pitiful voting attendance of just 60%!

So why is the voting important? Because that's why we have so much bureaucracy coming from Brussels; it gets voted though in the Parliament. If our MEPs aren't there voting for or against it, we are unrepresented. Every time an MEP fails to vote, 800,000 British people lose their vote in the Parliament.

The fact that UKIP MEPs are the worst offenders by a wide margin is astonishing. For a party that claims to be the primary opposition to Brussels, they seem to be spending rather more time in the bar than actually voting and arguing against the mass of unnecessary laws spewing out of the EU Parliament.

In contrast, today's pledges makes it clear that Libertas MEPs will be there every day, working hard to change the EU and fighting against unwanted bureaucracy and waste.

I just wish the pledge had been for 100% attendance, but I suppose that it impossible due to other commitments.