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Membership of the European Union costs Britain £60.1 billion per annum UKIP wants to leave the European Union and spend the money here in Britain.

To put this figure in perspective, just £1 billion would pay for:

222,000 hip replacements
Or 46,893 nurses
Or 38,782 teachers
Or 34, 585 police officers

Agree? Join UKIP
www.ukip.org

Anthony Butcher

And here is the Lib Dem view:

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HM

So what would happen to IndDem if it gets passed?

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eublues

As soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky said: 'I've lived in your future.'

HM

So by destroying 1 of 7 groupings, this will somehow reform the whole EU parliament?

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Anthony Butcher

Well, it is slightly irrelevant, IMHO. If UKIP loses just four or five MEPs (from the original 12) in the next EU elections, and the rest of the group stands still, the group would disappear anyway. At the moment, UKIP doesn't show any signs of doing particularly well. That may of course change as the EU elections approach and it becomes a hot topic again.

However, if you think that UKIP will hold on to 10-12 MEPs or even gain some, then the group would still disappear unless they could find eight more members from somewhere.

If, like Mr Farage, you are, er, optimistic, and think that UKIP is going to double its number of MEPs (presumably to 20, rather than 24), then the Ind/Dem group will be fine anyway.

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steve fowler

And again this plan they want for Europe's future still wont work! no matter how much the EU may wont it to.

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Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill.

When Labour won the 1997 General Election, Enoch Powell told his wife that the electorate had voted to break up the United Kingdom.

HM

I realise about the next elections but the vote is to be July 9 - nearly a year away from our 2009 Euroelection. If we lose out on the 9th, would UKIP MEPs go independent? Or try to find their nearest grouping?

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When/where was that prediction made?

Anthony Butcher

I think that it was in his leadership election manifesto, but he has repeated it since, I am sure.

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