A CONSENSUS ON GREATER EU POWERS

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A short catch-up with this week's 'The Record Europe'.
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The main feature this week was the forthcoming EU legislation on financial regulation. The European Commission is proposing new EU-wide powers to interfere in the affairs of London - legislation which no individual EU country (i.e. the UK) will be allowed to veto. Discussing the issue with Shirin Wheeler were 5 MEPs - all of whom (including the British Conservative) supported these moves. There were no opposing voices - e.g. no member of UKIP or their parliamentary grouping. Why?
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The guests were a French socialist, a British Labour MEP, a German Liberal, a British Lib Dem and that British Conservative. Hardly a balanced panel.
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That the British Conservative was broadly supportive of the legislation, though having some reservations - unlike any of the other guests -, might have secured her a lower I.C. than a centre-right panelist usually gets from Shirin. Not a bit of it. Here are the eerily typical I.C.s for the UK politicians on the panel:
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Vicky Ford (Conservative) - 1.5 (5 interruptions)
Arlene McCarthy (Labour) - 0.3 (1 interruption)
Sharon Bowles (Lib Dem) - 0 (0 interruptions)
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Shirin Wheeler just can't stop interrupting guests from the British centre-right (or, given the treatment Elmar Brok of the German CDU got later (0.9) as against Chris Davies of the Lib Dems (0), any country's centre-right!)
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