Having read her book, “Brussels Laid Bare”, Andreasen states clearly that her motivation to expose the rot in the EU executive is because she believes in the EU project. But she concludes that the EU administration is too “corrupt and corrupting” to change.

Jon Worth raises an interesting point as to whether we are witnessing a subtle change in the UKIP mission statement. Previously, we had no doubt that UKIP was against the EU and all its goals to unify Europe. But the EU will have its way and the Lisbon treaty will be ratified. When it is, all parties which are against the principles of the EU will be banned in Europe. That will be the end of UKIP. However, if UKIP repositions itself to say that it is not against the EU, only against the UK being part of the EU, then they could stay in business and continue sending MEPs to Brussels. But, of course, there is a logical inconsistancy there. How can you be _for_ the EU but _against_ one particular country being a member of the EU? So, a further little shuffle results in UKIP being against the UK being a member of the EU, so long as the dealings and finances of the EU are opaque and unaccountable. To survive then, UKIP will have to transform itself into a ginger group campaigning for reform within the EU, recognising the reality that the UK is part of the EU and that there is now now way to get out of it short of a revolution.

With that thought in mind, Marta Andreasen’s choice as an MEP for UKIP is not so strange after all. In fact, it is obvious.