EU to increase budget by £7.4 billion

[Derek]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...4-billion.html

The Daily Telegraph has learnt that a draft Brussels budget for 2013 sets a "substantial" spending increase of £7.4 billion, which is over four per cent above the rate of EU inflation.

Proving the EU once again really get what their residents want they've decided that when almost every country in the EU is tightening their belts, in some cases drastically, what should really happen is each country should give them more money so they can spend it on worthwhile projects like MEP's expenses and shuttling the EU between Brussels and Strasbourg every few months.

Originally Posted by Derek

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...4-billion.html



Proving the EU once again really get what their residents want they've decided that when almost every country in the EU is tightening their belts, in some cases drastically, what should really happen is each country should give them more money so they can spend it on worthwhile projects like MEP's expenses and shuttling the EU between Brussels and Strasbourg every few month.

That's unbelievable

[mark1234]

These clowns live in a different world...

[Ramrod]

The individual eurocrats who drew up this proposal should be 'outed' across Europe......names/pictures, so that everyone knows who these clowns are and what they look like.

[Ignitionnet]

Well it's not surprising given what one part of the coalition have to say about Europe.

Here's what a Lib Dem MEP thinks of the UK: http://t.co/cmdY8IhU

Here's what the man in charge of the group in the EU Parliament the Lib Dems sit in has to say:

http://t.co/mbMXHUOO
http://t.co/ltlDuScy

More personally to us of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMi8wI-enM

Increased European contributions have completely wiped out austerity savings so far. Waste of time, waste of our money, let the federalist freaks go and self-destruct, the Euro doesn't have far to go now and with it the rest of their USE project, so better we distance ourselves and ensure they aren't going to tap our taxpayers' pockets any more.

[Alan Fry]

For god sake for once can we have a day without EU-Bashing?

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

For god sake for once can we have a day without EU-Bashing?

No different to your bashing on a good many threads and subjects.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

For god sake for once can we have a day without EU-Bashing?

We could except they make it so easy for us to have a go.

I suppose you think the entire UK tax take should be handed to Brussels so they can start the grand New World Order project.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

For god sake for once can we have a day without EU-Bashing?

No.

The campaign will continue relentlessly until getting Britain out of the EU becomes a mainstream election-winning concern.

[Alan Fry]

Yes I agree that the EU is flawed, but with reforms (stop moving the the EU HQ between Brussels and Strasbourg), but it can work in enforing a set of standards across Europe, does anyone want to go back to the dark days? (e.g WW1 and WW2)

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Originally Posted by Chris

No.

The campaign will continue relentlessly until getting Britain out of the EU becomes a mainstream election-winning concern.

If we leave the EU, then it would be a bad thing for the UK

Please show some evidence that a third war between the great European powers would have happened in the last 70 years - or would be likely in the next 70 - without the European Union.

Please show some evidence of how Britain's exit from the EU would be 'bad'.

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by Chris

Please show some evidence that a third war between the great European powers would have happened in the last 70 years - or would be likely in the next 70 - without the European Union.

Please show some evidence of how Britain's exit from the EU would be 'bad'.

If the UK left the EU (which we joined under a Tory government and was suggested by a Tory PM!), not only would we have to change our laws, but we would be isolated in Europe, it would pose diffculties with Northern Ireland, we would have to either join NAFTA or go it alone and anyway, what ever we do we will be ultimately under influence of China

Also a divided Europe was reponsible for many wars and was the focus of the Cold War

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

For god sake for once can we have a day without EU-Bashing?

Yes, once the UK is out of it or it stops with its post-democratic, fascistic integrationist fetish and returns to being a union of trade, co-operation and friendship between a group of sovereign states, whichever comes first.

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Yes, once the UK is out of it or it stops with its post-democratic, fascistic integrationist fetish and returns to being a union of trade, co-operation and friendship between a group of sovereign states, whichever comes first.

Are you suggesting that after sticking a middle finger to Mainland Europe, we can still have a close relationship with the EU?

Look what happened when we vetoed something that had nothing to do with us!

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

Yes I agree that the EU is flawed, but with reforms (stop moving the the EU HQ between Brussels and Strasbourg), but it can work in enforing a set of standards across Europe, does anyone want to go back to the dark days? (e.g WW1 and WW2)

That is the problem .Trying to impose a "one size fits all" policy to 27 countries simply does not work and never will work .What you end up with is a hugely expensive bureaucracy that is incapable of doing anything in a reasonable time frame ,and when it does achieve something the result is so far removed from the original idea because of individual countries needs as to totally unrecognizable and pointless .You may want to consider that before embarking on any more of your world government fantasies