A petition has been launched against the proposal by the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz to give MEPs a secret ballot over the EU budget agreement which he has said he wants the European Parliament to reject.
The UKIP Leader, Nigel Farage has lambasted the attempts to give a secret ballot saying: "It is disgusting that in order to guarantee more votes to reject the budget cut, Mr Schulz is providing MEPs with a cloak of deception which means the very people who voted them in will not be able to challenge them over their position. The man is a disgrace to his office. It flies in the face of political liberty and once again shows the EU up to be the biased and corrupt anti-democratic organisation that it is. Most people in the UK fail to understand the fanaticism of the European institutions for creating a federal union, whatever the process. For people like Schulz, the means justify the end"
The petition is available here
