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[Leeds Wire]

TOSSER who claims to represent me gets involved in another pathetic UKIP publicity stunt.

[bowes]

No excuse for Nazi comments, but the guy he said it to was a nasty piece of work wanting to massively raise EU spending at a time when countries are having to make huge cuts, and blaming us for blocking it

[Millman]

No excuse for Nazi comments,

Quite right. Sadly followed up by an excuse;

but the guy he said it to was a nasty piece of work wanting to massively raise EU spending at a time when countries are having to make huge cuts, and blaming us for blocking it

[WearyRhino]

... but the guy he said it to was a nasty piece of work wanting to massively raise EU spending at a time when countries are having to make huge cuts ....

Good - EU spending might be the only thing that saves and creates jobs in this country and others.

[Northern Sol]

Good - EU spending might be the only thing that saves and creates jobs in this country and others.

Who is going to pay for it?

[Millman]

Who is going to pay for it?

Surely this could be funded from the revenue from the Royal wedding?

[Northern Sol]

Surely this could be funded from the revenue from the Royal wedding?

Then why would give the cash over to the EU to distribute?

Let them see if anyone gets excited about one of the EU President's sprogs getting hitched.

[waistline expansionist]

Good - EU spending might be the only thing that saves and creates jobs in this country and others.

Putting the unemployed into unnecessary unproductive "jobs" is as useful as putting the unemployed on incapacity benefit, and equally hard to undo when you need to.

Indeed given the interfering nature of many of these non-jobs and their need to justify themselves, sticking people on incapacity benefit (or whatever its called these days) is arguably a less bad idea.

Bloom's comments are childish and unjustified.

[bowes]

Quite right. Sadly followed up by an excuse;

It's not an excuse for calling him a Nazi, but it is right to be more than a bit annoyed at him for wanting countries struggling to stay afloat to waste even more money in the EU. The anti-democratic comment was perfectly fair enough though

Edited by bowes, 24 November 2010 - 03:43 PM.

[bowes]

Good - EU spending might be the only thing that saves and creates jobs in this country and others.

It will create plenty of jobs in the Belgian champagne trade or paying farmers not to grow crops but the UK would be better off keeping the extra money to spend itself

[WearyRhino]

It will create plenty of jobs in the Belgian champagne trade ...

Christ, has Belgium moved?

[JohnM]

Good - EU spending might be the only thing that saves and creates jobs in this country and others.

Er....I don't think so. Its certainly not working in other countries.

[JohnM]

Good - EU spending might be the only thing that saves and creates jobs in this country and others.

Er....I don't think so. Its certainly not working in other countries.

[marklaspalmas]

What an outrageous gravy train the European parliament is. Snouts in the trough doing eff all on expenses.

[bowes]

Looks like we know the real reason the German wanted the higher budget rise:

http://www.dailymail...ges-ruling.html

Apparently the 6% EU budget rise was to see a doubling of the entertainment budget, free lunches for all Eurocrats and an increased propaganda budget. Hmmm...