Comrade Member of the European Parliament

The current economic conditions are threatening to tear apart the European Union.

Austria laden with Eastern European paper is a hair away from bankruptcy.

Islamist extremists are setting up their own little fiefdoms throughout France and have come so far as to demand that they have their own legal system in the UK.

Russia turns off the gas spigot whenever it feels like it and invades neighbors as a weekend activity.

What is the European Parliament to do?

Why, continue to neuter itself, of course. It seems that the European Parliament has found the one thing that is missing form all this madness. They call their particular brand of insanity a “Gender Neutral Language pamphlet”.
An upgrade of the 1987 version of the “Guide to Non-Sexist Language“ the new version promisses to solve Europe’s most pressing problems by banning words such as statesmen or man-made. One of my favorites is the banning of the word “sportsman”. It shall be replaced with “athlete”.

Come May 1st, there will be a whole bunch of us “athletes” doing some athleticism to wild turkeys. I wonder if I can get my health insurance to cover some of the costs now that I will be officially participating in an athletic event..

I can suggest a quick way for the European Parliament to solve its language problems and they can do it on the cheap to boot. Dust off some of the old communist manuals and hand them out to the MEPs. I’m sure some of them already use them for references. Got that, Comrade Member of the European Parliament?

Here is the story from the UK Telegraph: