Erm hello. I mentioned it months before the first report was released. You told me I was wrong. After the first investigation you went with what the EU commission said and not what the report from it said. After the second report was released you still tried to go with what the EU commission had said previously. When you finally admitted that the second investigation was right you said it would be best if Selmayr went so people could see there is transparency in the EU. Then when I pointed out that happened last year you started going on about employment law as a reason why Selmayr should keep his position. You even ignored the MEP's who only had 12 out of about 550 say he should keep his job.
So no transparency either.
And no the EU commission watchdog didn't know what I had said. But what they said was exactly the same as what I had said. Yet strangely enough you disagreed with every word.
Here we go again. You said the law had been broken. That is not what the first report said. I quoted it. You answered by quoting another part about rules.
The second report was clear that the law had been broken. Which I accepted as, presumably, the ombudswoman knows more than either of us.
I didn’t rely on the original EC report, which was before the first report, but quoted their version. I also quoted their objections to the ombudsman’s first report and the rules that they said they kept to. To hear both sides.
That is what neutral people do. You just jump in regardless to pretend that the UK is doing the right thing as the appointment of the head of civil service breached the law. You ignore the fact that May appointed her loyal lieutenant for the same reasons as Juncker and 2 others appointed Selmayr. To get through Brexit with their man at the helm.
They did not say exactly the same as you said. They explained their decision and why they overruled the objections to the first report. You didn’t mention that at all. You had made your decision anyway as it passed into your argument.
You have since claimed that Selmayr rules 500000 thousand people in 28 countries. Your comprehension is terrible.
That is transparent. I read the whole thing on the EU website. How about May‘s head of civil service loyal lieutenant? A bit of moaning from Corbyn and then never heard of again.
What happens to Selmayr will depend upon how binding the final report was. He is an employee and has a contract of employment. Let’s see.