CARRY ON REGARDLESS..
I`m sorry but I just can`t resist yet another rant about the parallel universe of the European Union. First, the almost unbelievable case of six judges in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) taking time and money to decide that a leaking roof in Serbia, which was repaired more than five years ago, had been a breach of the owner`s human rights. No wonder the ECHR has a backlog of over 160,000 cases on its books and is asking EU member states, including the UK, to hand over yet more cash in addition to the £20million already shelled out to the Council of Europe so as to clear some of the backlog of cases.
In other news, we in this country now face an even bigger bill of £976million from Brussels because the European Commission has already blown its budget for the year with EU officials having spent far more than they were allocated under last November`s approved budget. Now last year`s demand by the Commission for a 5% budget increase was refused by member states, arguing that at a time of deep spending cuts in individual countries it would be unacceptable for the EU Commission to have the increase they were seeking.
But, the Eurocrats merely shrugged their shoulders, carried on regardless and went ahead and spent the extra money they had demanded anyway, leading to an £8billion `shortfall` which those same member states are now expected to fill, with the £976million being the UK`s share. Someone somewhere needs to tell these unelected, unaccountable Eurocrats and the remote self-serving EU elite, all of whom seem to be having a laugh at our expense, that taxpayers like me have had enough of pouring untold billions into the European black hole and being taken for a ride. Cue David Cameron? Hmmmm.......but at least a good rant makes me feel better. Well, a bit.
In other news, we in this country now face an even bigger bill of £976million from Brussels because the European Commission has already blown its budget for the year with EU officials having spent far more than they were allocated under last November`s approved budget. Now last year`s demand by the Commission for a 5% budget increase was refused by member states, arguing that at a time of deep spending cuts in individual countries it would be unacceptable for the EU Commission to have the increase they were seeking.
But, the Eurocrats merely shrugged their shoulders, carried on regardless and went ahead and spent the extra money they had demanded anyway, leading to an £8billion `shortfall` which those same member states are now expected to fill, with the £976million being the UK`s share. Someone somewhere needs to tell these unelected, unaccountable Eurocrats and the remote self-serving EU elite, all of whom seem to be having a laugh at our expense, that taxpayers like me have had enough of pouring untold billions into the European black hole and being taken for a ride. Cue David Cameron? Hmmmm.......but at least a good rant makes me feel better. Well, a bit.
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