THE EU
Tony Blair’s recent generosity with English taxpayer’s money has been insufficient for our EU ‘partners’. They have demanded more.
Despite offering to forego £1billion a year of Britain’s rebate, and a further offer to increase Britain’s contribution by another £1billion a year for the years 2007 to 2013, Britain was still savaged by other EU countries including the new members from eastern Europe.
Mr Blair’s generosity with our money also comes just after, for the eleventh year running, the EU auditors have refused to approve the EU’s ‘accounts’ due to the scale of ongoing fraud and mismanagement.
Mr Blair has not won any concessions from the French and their allies regarding the Common Agricultural Policy [CAP]. The CAP remains completely unscathed in the present rounds of negotiations.
The demands that Britain’s rebate is completely phased out remain un-placated.
This is another failure in the policy of appeasement, and another failure for Britain’s effete Foreign Office. It was the French demands, in the wake of the failed French referendum, which started off the attack on Britain’s rebate. President Chirac was determined to draw attention away from his own failure and unpopularity.
Instead of rejecting those attacks out of hand, Labour has tried to negotiate the orderly surrender of the British rebate. That policy is a failure, and in all likelihood Labour will make yet further concessions of offers of more English money to the EU.
This once again highlights that the only course open to the UK, given the considerable differences between the interests of the UK and the demands being placed upon us by the EU, is to leave. And the sooner the better.
Despite offering to forego £1billion a year of Britain’s rebate, and a further offer to increase Britain’s contribution by another £1billion a year for the years 2007 to 2013, Britain was still savaged by other EU countries including the new members from eastern Europe.
Mr Blair’s generosity with our money also comes just after, for the eleventh year running, the EU auditors have refused to approve the EU’s ‘accounts’ due to the scale of ongoing fraud and mismanagement.
Mr Blair has not won any concessions from the French and their allies regarding the Common Agricultural Policy [CAP]. The CAP remains completely unscathed in the present rounds of negotiations.
The demands that Britain’s rebate is completely phased out remain un-placated.
This is another failure in the policy of appeasement, and another failure for Britain’s effete Foreign Office. It was the French demands, in the wake of the failed French referendum, which started off the attack on Britain’s rebate. President Chirac was determined to draw attention away from his own failure and unpopularity.
Instead of rejecting those attacks out of hand, Labour has tried to negotiate the orderly surrender of the British rebate. That policy is a failure, and in all likelihood Labour will make yet further concessions of offers of more English money to the EU.
This once again highlights that the only course open to the UK, given the considerable differences between the interests of the UK and the demands being placed upon us by the EU, is to leave. And the sooner the better.
posted by erc @ 10:45 pm
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