Malcolm Tyrrell wrote:
He didn't mention then why, on our understanding, he was the single solitary MEP to vote against ?
Is there confirmation of this somewhere? I had a look around the europarl site and, as usual, became confused.
Malcohol.
The FFII people who were there thought the vote against was from him.
But no official record of names and votes was taken -- so we are not conclusively sure.
My understanding is that the committee basically got pretty disappointed and hostile with Charlie McCreevy -- so Crowley's vote can possibly be seen as a Fianna Fail solidarity vote with the Commissioner.
But that assumes we've identified him correctly as the MEP who voted against.