While David Cameron talks of renegotiation and Cleggie beaming down from his parallel univesre telling us that 3 million jobs will go if we leave the EU, down here in the real world, yet another incident has taken plafe showing why leaving the EU is the only sensible option for the UK.
We all know that the EU budget hasn't been signed off for umpteen years, and we all know that thanks to Gordon Brown's spending binge our government is up to its neck in debt, but yesterday EU finance ministers overrode objections from the UK, the Netherlands and Finland and decided to add another €7.3 billion to the EU's budget for the year, and the UK's share is to be about €1 billion. In other words, 24 foreign politicians have made every man, woman and child in the country about £100 worse off this year, in spite of the objections of our own Chancellor. How dare they! We never voted for any of them.
The only consolation is that the Commission wanted more - €11 billion, and if the European Parliament had had its way, that figure would be higher still.
What on earth are we doing being mixed up with this shower? Don't they realise how hard-pressed so many families in the UK still are? Well, no. These are people who don't live in the real world, and don't care two hoots about the hardships that ordinary men and women are facing. The main thing is that their grand dream to build a united Europe mustn't suffer derailment, whatever the cost. Small wonder that negative feelings towards the EU are on the rise, and not just in our country. I say stuff their unpaid bills for infrastructure projects. Let their half-completed buldings fall down. I've got better things to spend my money on, as have most of my fellow citizens. I want to see the government cut its spending and the deficit, not giving more money away to this bunch of clowns.
Furthermore, if these are the sort of people one is dealing with, what chance of David Cameron coming back from his proposed renegotiations with a guarantee that this won't happen again? He was meant to have scored a triumph not long ago in securing a reduction in the 2014-20 budget. If we're suddenly being told we've got to pay more in 2013, who knows what money the EU is going to screw out of us in the next seven years on top of what we have already agreed to surrender?
The wasteful, incompetent bureaucratic EU should not get one penny of our money. The only way this is can be achieved is for us to leave. Come on, Dave, hurry up and publish that referendum bill, I know which way I will be voting!
We all know that the EU budget hasn't been signed off for umpteen years, and we all know that thanks to Gordon Brown's spending binge our government is up to its neck in debt, but yesterday EU finance ministers overrode objections from the UK, the Netherlands and Finland and decided to add another €7.3 billion to the EU's budget for the year, and the UK's share is to be about €1 billion. In other words, 24 foreign politicians have made every man, woman and child in the country about £100 worse off this year, in spite of the objections of our own Chancellor. How dare they! We never voted for any of them.
The only consolation is that the Commission wanted more - €11 billion, and if the European Parliament had had its way, that figure would be higher still.
What on earth are we doing being mixed up with this shower? Don't they realise how hard-pressed so many families in the UK still are? Well, no. These are people who don't live in the real world, and don't care two hoots about the hardships that ordinary men and women are facing. The main thing is that their grand dream to build a united Europe mustn't suffer derailment, whatever the cost. Small wonder that negative feelings towards the EU are on the rise, and not just in our country. I say stuff their unpaid bills for infrastructure projects. Let their half-completed buldings fall down. I've got better things to spend my money on, as have most of my fellow citizens. I want to see the government cut its spending and the deficit, not giving more money away to this bunch of clowns.
Furthermore, if these are the sort of people one is dealing with, what chance of David Cameron coming back from his proposed renegotiations with a guarantee that this won't happen again? He was meant to have scored a triumph not long ago in securing a reduction in the 2014-20 budget. If we're suddenly being told we've got to pay more in 2013, who knows what money the EU is going to screw out of us in the next seven years on top of what we have already agreed to surrender?
The wasteful, incompetent bureaucratic EU should not get one penny of our money. The only way this is can be achieved is for us to leave. Come on, Dave, hurry up and publish that referendum bill, I know which way I will be voting!