Fancy a try
out as an avatar?
A few days’
back, the
astonishing news broke that the European Parliament was spending a couple
of hundred thousand pounds on a computer simulation of life in EU politics.
The site is
now registering for testing. Fancy
wasting five minutes of an afternoon by organising a sit-in of the
Commissioner’s office? Inclined to lobby the designers so they can accommodate
a placard-wielding crowd, a rogue French farmer, or an anti-fraud investigation?
More seriously, what about test-suggesting a slot for alternative, Euro-sceptic
views on what the EU’s about amongst all the promo videos that are going to be
linked in?
The worse
that could happen is that you get a pixellated visit from Europol. I for
one intend to get my taxpayers’ worth. Given Paul van Buitenen’s celebrated discovery
of the high powered rifles and machine guns held by the Commission’s security
staff, it may yet turn into a version of Doom.