I certainly will from now on. Although the villain in this piece, Corbett, is a Labour MP, the opponents of his dastardly plan are way further Left than he is. Follow along with me (excerpted from your link):

"The European Union assembly’s political establishment is pushing through changes that will silence dissidents by changing the rules allowing Euro-MPs to form political groupings."

"Richard Corbett, a British Labour MEP, is leading the charge to cut the number of party political tendencies in the Parliament next year, a move that would dissolve UKIP’s pan-European Eurosceptic “Independence and Democracy” grouping."

"Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, claimed that the move goes hand in hand with the denial of popular votes on the new EU Treaty."

" The Liberal Democrats, Greens, the far Left, Eurosceptics and other groupings have vowed to oppose the plans during a vote scheduled for July 9. Andrew Duff, leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrat Euro-MPs and a committed EU Federalist, has opposed the silencing of UKIP on the basis of democratic principle."

"But the proposals are expected to be passed with the backing of the Parliament’s centre-Left and Right groupings, which account for 64 per cent of MEPs, including British Conservative and Labour deputies."

Good guys: The Liberal Democrats, Greens, the far Left, Eurosceptics
Bad Guys: centre-Left and Right, British Conservatives and Labour

My take on this: Conservatives in the EU Parliament, like Conservatives everywhere, are not opposed to spending. They're just opposed to anyone else but them doing the spending.