Well, well, well, here’s a surprise: Richard Corbett MEP wants to restrict the type of questions MEPs can table in Parliament.

“Richard Corbett of the Socialist Group […] has proposed that written questions to the Commission be limited to three a month per MEP. He says this would allow the EU executive more breathing space, as it is required to answer such questions within six weeks.

Corbett also wants to set certain guidelines so that, at the very least, questions on issues that have nothing to do with the EU would be inadmissible.”

Asked by Euractiv why he wants to stop MEPs asking questions, Richard admits that it’s partly because he’s pissed off with arch-eurosceptic Robert Kilroy-Silk.

Poor Richard got a shock yesterday. Evidently he has a permanent vanity search set up with Google Alerts, because he discovered that a new and improved version of his blog has been launched.

Improved, because it allows comments. Instead of simply having Richard preaching to the people who pay his wages, the new site allows them to answer back. This must be very unsettling to somebody who’s so far enjoyed his career relatively insulated from the unpleasantness of people having contrary opinions.

I’m sure Margot Wallstrom, the EU’s champion of communications, is looking on approvingly.

I have no idea who set it up, but I congratulate them.

Hat-tip to England Expects.