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Transparency League Table

Mark Devenport | 12:10 UK time, Tuesday, 26 May 2009

The Open Europe think tank has ranked the 785 outgoing MEPs in terms of their voting on issues related to transparency, waste and attendance. The league table is good news for Jim Allister who is ranked 5th out of the UK's MEPs, whilst Jim Nicholson comes in 44th and Bairbre De Brun 56th.

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  • 1. At 07:29am on 27 May 2009, evdsteen wrote:

    The table is even better news for Caroline Lucas, MEP of the Green Party, who came first. You could have mentioned that as well.....

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  • 2. At 12:16pm on 27 May 2009, traditional_unionist wrote:

    Wonder why have the DUP members who post on here have not posted on this subject?

    Too embarrassed to admitt that their candidate is shamefully trying to get rid of the top performing Unionist from Northern Ireland and 5th best in the whole of the UK!!

    All the electorate need to do is look at the records though and they will see a vote for Jim Allister is a good one. As the record proves

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