BRUSSELS THIEVES "ADOPT" A NEW BUDGET

BRUSSELS THIEVES "ADOPT" A NEW BUDGET: "The European Parliament, not content with awarding themselves a thieving pay rise of 20% at a time when most lesser mortals are lucky to have a job at all, has now also decided to increase the EU's budget as a whole by 6% a year to a staggering 122bn euros. The UK's contribution to the total is also going up massively - thanks to a sell-out by Tony Blair in 2005 - by an horrific 60% (to 7.2bn euros). Bearing in mid that the EU has failed to file satisfactory accounts for more than a decade this is larceny on a massive scale from the British tax-payer. Our money, your money is being used like water to fund the most bloated and unnecessary bureaucracy in the world.

How does the BBC report this ratcheting up of the EU's self-aggrandisement? Are they worried at all, do they think it's a subject for investigation? Does it occur to them that a time of recession, these kleptocrats should be exercising restraint? Not at all. To the BBC, their friends in Brussels have merely 'adopted' a bigger budget. Just like that.

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