Earlier this week the European Union Home Affairs Commissioner, Cecilia Malmstroem,  a Swede, said that the widespread corruption in the European Union was “breathtaking”. Crikey,  who would ever have thought that?

This corruption costs the European taxpayer (people like you and me) somewhere in the region of 120 billion euros each year (that’s £99 billion in real money) although Malmstroem said the figure is probably even higher. Breathtaking doesn’t even come close. What single word does?

Still, at least it’s now official and a member of the European hierarchy has finally admitted publicly what many of us have known or suspected for years. The question is though, what are we and the British Government going to do about it? More pertinently, what can we do about it?