Always eager to provide more reasons why the new EU is a joke, Gordon Brown's UK government is planning to limit the number of workers (read: poor) from Bulgaria and Romania. All of this happens just a week after Brown decided to scrap a democratic vote by the British electorate on the EU and just leave democracy to the same old ruling class, Parliament. They always seem to know better, don't they?
What strikes me as absurd is that the UK and other countries are only too happy to allow big employers move previously good paying jobs from their home countries to Eastern Europe for a few cents on the euro but heavens no, don't let those eastern Europeans come to the west. Absolutely not. Big business would much rather pay workers chump change in the east than pay even modest salaries in the west and they've done a brilliant job of convincing the EU governments to go along with this unfair plan. The double standard is really wearing thin but this explains why the ruling class of Europe is terrified of giving any more voters an opportunity to actually vote on what they think about the new EU.
