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Kilroy: Time to quit! Friday, 28th November 2008 Now that Robert Kilroy-Silk has been voted out of I’m a celebrity… Get me out of here! Regional MEPs are saying he should step down from the Parliament too. Fellow East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer says: “Now Kilroy is out of the jungle, it’s about time that the voters in the East Midlands boot him out of the Parliament too.” Throughout Mr Kilroy-Silk’s time in the jungle, Mr Helmer and other MEPs for the region have been critical of his time in there, which has left many people wondering how he can perform his elected duties whilst in the Australian Jungle. However, figures are now out to show what Kilroy actually does in the Parliament. While other East Midlands MEPs have an attendance record in the last two years of around 90%, the figure for Kilroy is 39.2% -- less than half the average of the others. Since the last Euro-elections, Conservative MEP Roger Helmer has spoken 58 times in the parliament, Chris Heaton-Harris MEP 69 times, Glenis Willmott MEP (Lab) 30 times -- but Kilroy just seven. Helmer and Heaton-Harris have each sponsored 3 Written Declarations over the period: Kilroy none. The one area where Kilroy leads all his colleagues is on parliamentary questions. He has asked no fewer than 1580 (his regional colleagues range from 17 to 255). This is the highest number for any MEP in the parliament. With the estimated cost of answering each question at around €200, Kilroy has spent some €300,000 of tax-payers' money on parliamentary questions. But as Helmer points out, “The Written Question is the one parliamentary activity which Kilroy can carry out remotely -- for example via a lap-top by the pool-side at his villa in Spain, while topping-up his perma-tan”. Moreover many of his questions are trivial and time-wasting. He asked whether the European Commission would investigate the absurd suggestion that Marks and Spencer’s uses distorting mirrors in its changing rooms to make women look slimmer in M&S dresses. Readers can call for the MEP to quit at the following address: www.kilroystepdown.co.uk |