Bill Cash, the chairman of the House of Commons scrutiny committee, warned that MPs would insist that British ministers were only answerable to them and the public.

"It would be humiliating and degrading for any British Treasury ministers to be exposed to this demand."

I'm no Euro fan, but is this kind of oversight really a bad thing? Shouldn't we have some kind of stricture on their increasingly cock-sure approach to deficit reduction?

Yeah, they're answerable to the public once in every five years. After which, they swan about doing whatever the f**k they like.

Yes, we must spare them a few blushes and those awkward uncomfortable moments where they are made to feel accountable.

We should be making them more accountable to the UK electorate not the EU parliament.

so just like the MEPs, so why have an extra level of oversight and thus even more cost? People have at least had a vote on what the UK parties have said they would do about the economy. To have every MEP from other countries then to have their say, who are not answerable to the electorate they are making decisions about.

We should be making them more accountable to the UK electorate not the EU parliament.

Yes, we must spare them a few blushes and those awkward uncomfortable moments where they are made to feel accountable.

I'm no Euro fan, but is this kind of oversight really a bad thing? Shouldn't we have some kind of stricture on their increasingly cock-sure approach to deficit reduction?

Yeah, they're answerable to the public once in every five years. After which, they swan about doing whatever the f**k they like.

Yes, we must spare them a few blushes and those awkward uncomfortable moments where they are made to feel accountable.