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CASH-STRAPPED Britons were tonight handed an extra £1billion tax burden by Europe.MEPs rejected calls for restraint and voted to increase the massive EU budget to a staggering £99 billion for next year, 2009............................................Bloggers 4 UKIP: HOW THE EU WILL NOW COST £99,000,000,000 EVERY SINGLE YEAR

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European Citizen

£99 billion? Do you have any idea how insignificant that is compared to the UK government's budget?

£876 million (The amount the UK will pay) is also significantly less than the £1billion headline figure you and the express are peddling.

I also *love* how you're deriding EU spending on Objective One funding. I wonder what will happen to your support base in Cornwall when you tell them you want to take those grants away from them?

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Daily Express | UK News :: How the EU will now cost £99,000,000,000 every single year

HOW THE EU WILL NOW COST £99,000,000,000 EVERY SINGLE YEAR

Europe costs taxpayers a fortune every year

Thursday October 23,2008
By Nick Fagge Have your say(5)
CASH-STRAPPED Britons were tonight handed an extra £1billion tax burden by Europe.

MEPs rejected calls for restraint and voted to increase the massive EU budget to a staggering £99 billion for next year, 2009.

The £876 million increase is on top of the £10.4 billion Britons already fork out to keep the Brussels gravy train rolling.

The hike is £7.65 billion more than the bloc’s 27 governments had agreed to and £7 billion more than the ruling European Commission claims it needs.

The EU already spends astronomical sums on agricultural subsidies, cash aid for poorer regions and programmes to boost employment and economic growth.

All EU governments have said they want to cap on spending.

But MEPs claim they need the extra money for pet projects such turning the EU in a world model on how to combat climate change.

Brussels takes and wastes more than enough of our hard earned money as it is
Mark Wallace, TaxPayers Alliance

And under EU rules the budget cannot be passed without European Parliament approval.

However there was growing concern that Europe was wasting money when Britons could least afford.

Britain’s Conservative Party opposed the increase but were out voted in the assembly in Strasbourg.

Richard Ashworth MEP, the Conservative’s budget spokesman in Europe, said: "We didn’t want the increase and tried to peg it back.

"We voted against a lot of the issues in the budget but there are only a small number of us out here."

UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: "The European Parliament is behaving like a kiddie in a sweetie shop.

"More money, always more money, and for what? Subsidising the destruction of our fishing stocks. Paying for more and more propaganda.

"It is amazing isn’t it how though Eurocrats never want to listen to the taxpayer when they say ’No’ but they always want to dip into their pockets".

Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers Alliance said: "The government must give a simple answer to this greedy request - no!

"British tax payers are struggling to keep their heads above water in the financial crisis and we don’t have any more money to pay in tax.

"Brussels takes and wastes more than enough of our hard earned money as it is."

And even a European Parliament spokesman admitted MEPs often seem greedy.

With surprising frankness the spokesman said: "The parliament often asks for more money, but of course MEPs don’t have to raise it, they just spend it.

"As far as the latest increase is concerned there are still a few more meetings to bash out the final figures."

Newly promoted Europe Minister Caroline Flint was unavailable for comment when contacted by the Daily Express.

However Treasury a spokesmans said this vote was "merely the beginning" of the procress to reach agreement on the budget.

He added: "The 2009 EC Budget will not be agreed until late November"

Next month the EU court of auditors is expected to refuse to give the budget a clean bill of health for the 14th year in a row.

Mr Ashworth said: "This gnaws away at the EU’s credibility.

"It makes the EU look like a banana republic

Independent UKIP

£99 billion is insignificant is it? Not in the real world.

£124 million is significant is it? Make your mind up!

I'm not aware that much of that money goes to those in Cornwall who actively oppose the UK's membership of the EU. If it does those persons will all be well aware that the UK pays out far more than it ever receives so an independent United Kingdom would be able to assist Cornwall with far more resources, far more cost effectively and directed to those best placed to benefit than is or will ever be the case so long as we remain in the EU.

European Citizen

£99 billion is insignificant compared to HM Government's annual budget.

The headline is misleading by trumpeting a £1 billion figure, when this is somewhat off the mark.

Cornwall has consistently been underfunded by the UK government. It was underfunded before the UK made payments to the EU, and I have little reason to believe that the situation would be different if the UK withdrew.

Objective One has made huge differences in Cornwall - helping to stimulate the rural economy and transforming Truro College into one of the finest (and leading) Further Education institutions in the country.

Cornwall is the poorest region in the United Kingdom. As it stands, the EU is the only body trying to rectify this. The UK government still does not fund Cornwall adequately even today.

The EU also provides protection for Cornwall's unique heritage - recently agreeing to recognise Cornish clotted cream and Cornish pasties as regionally protected products. You don't get that from the UK government either.

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eublues

"The EU also provides protection for Cornwall's unique heritage - recently agreeing to recognise Cornish clotted cream and Cornish pasties as regionally protected products."

I don't think even Kinnock would use such a weak argument for the EU these days!

Charlemagne

You better pony up if you know what's good for you.

Anthony Butcher

£1 billion is an additional £33 for every economically active adult in the UK per year. If people were made to pay their EU subsidy like a TV license there would be uproar at an increase of this size.

I am not sure of the specifics, but it looks like a 15% increase or so, at a time when we are already fighting massive energy bill increases, high petrol prices, inflation, recession and a looming depression.

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European Citizen

Why's it weak? It stops companies outside of Cornwall producing them - helping boost the local economy.

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European Citizen

Except the EU is trying to govern 27 member states. The BBC's remit is slightly smaller...

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