Consumers haven’t a prayer unless they’re in industry or the Cabinet

THERE are 473 million consumers in the EU and you would assume that such a huge number would make a powerful lobby.

You would assume wrong for the simple reason that they are totally out-lobbied by big business and industry. The sorry fact of the matter is that the EU is more inclined to listen to money.

I didn’t know, and presumably neither did you, that there are 15,000 lobbyists in Brussels paid by big business to cosy up to officials and parliamentarians.