WHEN LOBBYISTS PLAY SANTA CLAUS

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told lobbyists beating a path to his door before Christmas what they need to do. He wants them to play Santa Claus for the less fortunate. Lobbyists are urged to bring a gift for the Prime Ministers's Xmas tree. Xmas is a time when politics should be left behind. Perhaps Martin Schulz President of the European Parliament could make the same appeal to European lobbyists given that 16.4 % of the population, 80 million people, live below the poverty threshold in the European Union.