What? Eh? Pardon?

Reading this story about Kilroy-Silk leaving the UKIP parliamentary party in Strasbourg (though not yet UKIP it seems) I couldn’t help but gawk at the following:

Earlier, Mr Kilroy-Silk caused uproar as MEPs discussed the controversy about the proposed appointment of Rocco Buttiglione as a European commissioner.
Laughing, he shouted: "Point of order. Oi! Point of order."

Socialist group leader Martin Schulz accused him of being a hooligan and of "behaving like a spoilt child".

In a point of order, Mr Kilroy-Silk said the European Parliament should not have waited when commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, arrived late for a hearing on Tuesday.

He wants a vote of no confidence in Mr Barroso, who he argues has treated the parliament with further disdain by producing no proposals on Wednesday.

Am I reading that right? Kilroy-Silk accusing someone of treating the parliament with disdain? Isn’t that why the man himself is a member of that parliament; to treat it with disdain?
I thought he wanted to wreck it himself.

Posted by John at October 28, 2004 09:02 AM | TrackBack