On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 18:20:43 -0000, "harryagain"
wrote:

"Java Jive" wrote in message
...

And, even though it's the Daily Fail, nowhere does it identify "a
corrupt bent bunch of ex-commies hand in glove with European big
business bent on European domination at any price."

Easy to find
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Andreasen

Nowhere does that article identify "a corrupt bent bunch of ex-commies
hand in glove with European big business bent on European domination
at any price."

http://www.economist.com/node/1722297

Ten years out of date, and "Both men deny any wrongdoing and no
compelling evidence has been brought against them. Nonetheless, the
inquiry is exposing murky ties between politicians, media bosses and
regulatory officials. As a result, ordinary Poles are increasingly
disgusted with, and cynical about, the post-communist establishment."

and much of the rest sounds rather like the UK in the middle of the
MPs' Expenses scandal.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...corruption.htm

"Transparency International (TI) is active in Hungary and its 2010
Corruption Perceptions Index rates Hungary 50th out of 102 countries
(1st being best), more favorably than most other countries in the
region, but worse than Hungary’s 2009 ranking of 46th."

Can't read much more because the cr*p designer of the page won't allow
me a vertical scroll bar, but 50th out of 102 is about average, so
what are you complaining about?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...corruption.svg

9-10 2 Denmark, Finland
8-8.9 3 Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden
7-7.9 4 Belgium, France, Germany, UK
6-6.9 6 Austria, Eire, Estonia, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain
5-5.9 5 Cyprus, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland
4-4.9 7 Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia
3-3.9 1 Greece

So the worst "corrupt bent bunch" is in fact Greece who have no
communist background, and in amongst the next bunch is Italy, while of
the ex-communist countries, including Germany, 6 are above world
average, 3 comfortably so, and 6 just below, their combined average
(by counting countries) being around 5.3, just above world average.

And note, the map is of perceived, not proven, corruption.

So the allegation that the EU is "a corrupt bent bunch of ex-commies
hand in glove with European big business bent on European domination
at any price" remains the unproven bigotry that it always was.

You're not very smart are you?

Apparently comfortably smarter than you, but then that doesn't seem to
be at all difficult.
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