EU Budget - New Labour Lies Exposed
This is from the website of Conservative MEP Roger Helmer:
“We are so accustomed to the Prime Minister's detachment from reality that we take his lies for granted, and discount them.
In June, he said "The UK rebate will remain, and we will not negotiate it away. Period". Even last month he insisted "he would not give up the British rebate". Yet Jack Straw said in Brussels on November 7th that "only the size of the hike in British payments was now in question ... We are ready to discuss the rebate". There would be no repeat of Britain's hard-line stance in June. The government is preparing public opinion for a climb-down.
Worse yet, the "red-line" issue of the size of the budget, which the government insisted should not exceed 1% of EU GDP, has been abandoned (Telegraph May 8th, quoting Whitehall sources).
We used to have words to describe this kind of behaviour. Lies, appease¬ment and surrender spring to mind.”
Little more needs to be said – except I suspect that Blair is so determined to get some positive press out of his failed Presidency of the EU that he will resort to anything to resolve the budget problems. Once again it means that Britain will suffer because of the New Labour passion for putting positive PR ahead of doing what is right.
“We are so accustomed to the Prime Minister's detachment from reality that we take his lies for granted, and discount them.
In June, he said "The UK rebate will remain, and we will not negotiate it away. Period". Even last month he insisted "he would not give up the British rebate". Yet Jack Straw said in Brussels on November 7th that "only the size of the hike in British payments was now in question ... We are ready to discuss the rebate". There would be no repeat of Britain's hard-line stance in June. The government is preparing public opinion for a climb-down.
Worse yet, the "red-line" issue of the size of the budget, which the government insisted should not exceed 1% of EU GDP, has been abandoned (Telegraph May 8th, quoting Whitehall sources).
We used to have words to describe this kind of behaviour. Lies, appease¬ment and surrender spring to mind.”
Little more needs to be said – except I suspect that Blair is so determined to get some positive press out of his failed Presidency of the EU that he will resort to anything to resolve the budget problems. Once again it means that Britain will suffer because of the New Labour passion for putting positive PR ahead of doing what is right.
posted by Martin Curtis at 11:24 AM
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