Politicians mate, politicians.

Don't vote for them, it only encourages them.

The next time the EU demands a budget increase, remember where the money is going. European Commissioners have spent €7.5m (£6.6m) on private jets, gifts, luxury hotels, orchestras to play at parties and the other bare necessities of a Brussels apparatchik’s life. While all this private jetting was going on, a Commission team flew to New York to lecture the rest of us about the need to cut carbon emissions. A private aeroplane typically emits 55 tonnes of carbon dioxide on a transatlantic flight.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...-cut-spending/

Why do people vote for these bastards?

Oh wait! Unlike your lot, who you can vote out, we're stuck with this lot. No one voted them in in the first place.