Tim Aker is the Campaign Manager at the new campaign Get Britain Out
We currently pay £53 million a day into their coffers as our gross contribution. Professor Tim Congdon has estimated our overall cost tallies to £150 billion a year, that is the cost of regulation and associated costs our EU membership brings.
Yet they haven’t stopped there, they are still content to spend and squander more of our money. They enforce austerity onto Greece, Spain and Portugal, yet they don’t practice what they preach. Any plans to cut the EU budget are met with reactions as if it was the end of the world.
Last month Get Britain Out uncovered an EU plan to use taxpayers’ money to propagandise the benefits of the EU to British citizens. A report on the European Year of Citizens 2013 forecast to spend €2 million on this exercise. All of it is your money.
Another EU scheme aims to use taxpayers’ money to pay for unemployed EU workers to gain interviews in other EU countries at £250 a go. How do you think this feels to our one million young unemployed? The EU won’t pay them to resettle from Bath to Birmingham. Yet come from Brussels to Bridlington and the EU will pay you to the tune of £830 a pop to relocate.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in the EU’s record of wasteful spending.