Just to follow up on yesterdays post on Tax freedom day, I realise I didn’t mention how much the EU spent. Thankfully due to an article brought to my attention by Penny Dreadful I can now correct this, as the Telegraph have all the gritty details all 9.2 billion of them!
9.2 Billion being the “Amount British taxpayers contributed to the EU in 2010.”, which makes the (presumably additional)
“£3 billion
Amount of ‘stealth taxes’ to be levied on Britons under European Commission plans to generate one third of the EU budget by 2020 using direct taxation powers. ”
Quite a blow seeing as we’re all notionally trying to reduce our spending, well apart from the EU itself it seems. But of course the really worrying matter is how much of the money they take from us is gone but unaccounted for:
“£94billion
The nine tenths of the EU’s budget in 2009 that was “materially affected” by irregularities, projects that included the spending of more than £350,000 “improving the lifestyle and living standard of dogs” in Hungary. ”
Remember the EU has never has it’s accounts signed off, and can’t keep to it’s own accounting rules, but that’s not stopping them demanding more money and the right to take it directly from us without even the pretence of our Government having a say in the matter. At which point what is the purpose of our national Government at all, then giving the EU a seat on the UN as a recognised state starts to make sense, and once it’s got that there’s no need for any of the EU members to have one is there?
