Loony left?

The Parliament's Socialist group is trying to show the more human side of some of its MEPs by putting up on its website short video interviews. But the standard profile questions have elicited some rather strange responses, suggesting that MEPs are indeed as mad as the rest of us.
British MEP Michael Cashman reveals that in another life he would like to be a priest in the Vatican, “so I could go in and make them much more liberal”. “Eventually,” says the former actor: “I'd become Pope and then the Church would be wonderful.”
Dutch MEP Emine Bozkurt has only slightly lower ambitions – she wants to be on ‘Crime Scene Investigation', a television series she confesses to watching every day. But it is the food fetishes that leave us most puzzled. Portuguese MEP Ana Gomes shows scant respect for ‘smoked-salmon socialists' and says that for her last meal she would like “white coffee with a piece of bread and butter”. Hungarian MEP Gyula Hegyi's big revelation is that despite things getting heated on the Parliament's environment committee, he has never eaten human flesh. How reassuring.

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