Who’s kidding who as Europe lives beyond our means

Maurice O'Brien • Published 4 Nov 2010 12:30 Comments 1 Comment

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NO WONDER we’re in a mess when Boy Dave believes handing an extra £435m to the EU is a victory.

Dearie me. The French and Germans were up and about and back under the sheets for their afternoon siesta before our LibCon boy wonders had even switched on their Mickey Mouse pocket calculators.

But then, somebody’s got to pay for the libertine lifestyle of MEPs who either haven’t noticed, or really don’t care, that everyone else is battling a recession, seeing as they’ve just voted to double the European Parliament’s entertainment allowance to €2.1m next year.

At the same time, European Commission President Barroso (not to be confused with alternative European President van Rompuy Pompuy who’s having £240m spent on his new palace) banked a €340,000 salary and then trousered another €30,000 for travel and “representation”.

Then there was the €2m spent on “information” in 2008; largely on persuading the Irish that ‘no’ means ‘yes’.

Don’t forget either, the £8,622 a month Mandelson’s still being paid for voluntarily giving up his post as EU Trade Commissioner to grab his peerage and a job from Prudence Brown; the equivalent of £780m the EU is paying non-member Turkey in something called “pre-accession” fees; the £25m new EU offices in London; or the £5.8bn global costs of running Cathy Ashton’s EU diplomatic service.

Before the election, Dave ratted on his pledge to give us a referendum on the Lisbon Constitreaty. Now he’s doing it again with his wheeze to weasel out of letting us vote on the proposed Merkel-Sarkozy Lisbon Mark 2.

He claims it won’t affect Britain, because we’re not in the Eurozone and therefore wouldn’t involve ceding any more sovereign powers.

Is he so naïve as to believe that the Commission will award itself omnipotent surveillance powers over all Eurozone national budgets and turn a blind eye to Britain’s?

Or is Dave simply waiting for the cock to crow a third time?

ONE of several hundred unwanted emails I get daily informs me that, according to something called AccuWeather.com, we should escape a repeat of last year’s Arctic winter.

Indeed, it predicts “near-normal temperatures from southern England into the northern Europe mainland and colder-than-normal conditions from Italy and the Alps into the Balkans, Ukraine and southern Russia”.

And who to thank for this information? None other than AccuWeather.com’s chief long-range forecaster Joe Bastardi.

So when we’re all freezing to death, at least we’ll know which Bastardi to blame, won’t we?

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marian
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MMMMM. Sounds as if the man has two brain cells. One died and the other got so lonely it f.............d off! Marian Murray Nice reading anyway

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