Don't these EU meddlers ever give up?

[OwlHoot]

A week after hearing European leaders solemnly declaring they need to learn from their mistakes and leave more decisions to EU countries, and stop their obsessive micromanaging, in the wake of the disastrous (for them) election results, and what do we see?

2014-06-03 European Commission urges UK to tax expensive homes more

Obviously, as Talleyrand said of the Bourbons, "they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing".

[MicrosoftBob]

Vote UKIP!

[speling bee]

A week after hearing European leaders solemnly declaring they need to learn from their mistakes and leave more decisions to EU countries, and stop their obsessive micromanaging, in the wake of the disastrous (for them) election results, and what do we see?

2014-06-03 European Commission urges UK to tax expensive homes more

Obviously, as Talleyrand said of the Bourbons, "they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing".

This isn't the European Commission making a decision. It's offering advice, as the IMF and numerous think tanks do.

[VectraMan]

It's just another report by another think tank on something or other. There's hundreds of these. Nothing to see here.

[lilelvis2000]

hmmm... and in a totally unrelated story - two buses collide. BBC News - Stanley school bus crash: 20 children taken to hospital

[doodab]

I had a good chuckle when I saw this and imagined the outraged eurosceptics foaming at the mouth.

[CloudWalker]

They don't need to tax more, they need to Build More!

[speling bee]

I had a good chuckle when I saw this and imagined the outraged eurosceptics foaming at the mouth.

They're MICROMANAGING!

[DodgyAgent]

I had a good chuckle when I saw this and imagined the outraged eurosceptics foaming at the mouth.

Whatever advice they are "offering" you can be absolutely sure it is not for the benefit of the UK

[Mich the Tester]

I had a good chuckle when I saw this and imagined the outraged eurosceptics foaming at the mouth.

These people!