The EU made moves to settle the dispute over Vote Leave’s £350m a week figure – if the UK stayed, the contribution would be much, much larger.
the refugee crisis, faltering investment and high youth unemployment
caused by themselves, Eurocrats demanded a huge hike in member state cash. They admitted there is NO democratic oversight of money sent to Turkey:
On top of this come ad hoc expenses, like the money promised to Turkey and the African trust fund, which have forced the EU to empty its pockets while allowing no democratic oversight. The Parliament does not have the right to scrutinise these expenses
The EU now wants to stop member states debating their EU contributions by assuming the functions of a single nation state – direct tax raising powers. That is right, the EU is proposing directly to tax EU citizens, including business taxes. UK businesses have clearly dodged a bullet
“Member states want to protect their national budgets, so we are at a dead end,” Thomas added.
“The only solution would be for the EU to have its own, incontestable resources, coming partly from a minimal business tax and partly from a financial transaction tax. Member states also need to understand that this will give them breathing room in their national budgets,” she noted.
But hey! The EU can’t take on debt. So Jean-Claude Juncker has been robbing science and technology to pay for his little plans:
the so-called Juncker Plan, setting up a European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), ..poached funding from other parts of the EU budget…like Horizon 2020, focused on research and innovation
And just to make you even happier, here’s the EU describing what it does when it has a debt crisis – it just adds it to next year’s budget! Woooh!
Recurrent payments crisis
Spending has outstripped the EU budget and delays in payments are increasingly common. As the EU is not allowed to acquire debt, overdue payments are simply transferred from one year’s budget to the next.
This leaves many programmes unfunded, with social projects hit hardest.
At this time of the EU’s mad foray into direct tax and military spending – oh, did I forget that bit?
the executive needs to find an extra €2 billion to launch a European border guard service
Theresa May, instead of leading a campaign to unite Remainers and Leavers, has gone full Remain, literally hiring the head of Stronger In to run her campaign team, as reported by Guido Fawkes:
Theresa May has hired a leading Remain campaigner to work on her Tory leadership bid. Alison Griffiths says she will be May’s Director of Operations, fresh out of her role as Chief Operating Officer for the doomed Conservatives In. On her CVGriffiths says she was “COO of The Prime Minister’s campaign for the UK to vote to Remain in the European Union”, hardly something to boast about. Griffith’s Conservatives In colleague Charlotte Vere, who was the group’s executive director, is also backing May. Will this convince the membership of May’s commitment to deliver on Brexit?
I’d say the answer is no. Andrea Leadsom has Remain support such as Dr. Dan Poulter MP, but she is quietly resolute on Brexit and voting to leave. As the EU doubles down on its USE, military and tax raising, budget-busting chaos, Leadsom offers security. Cabinet minister Theresa Villiers and former leaders Michael Howard and IDS, a man who resigned over austerity, are backing Leadsom as the moderate choice.
