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[Varche]

EU Commission to propose 6.8% budget increase for 2013

Outrageous. Just where do they think strapped countries are going to get that sort of money? have they not heard there is a crisis? I wonder if their perks will go up 6%?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17835821

[tigers_gonads]

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[Varche]

Vote UKIP
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No UKIP option for us in Spain. In fact due to a cruel trick played on immigrants (i.e. me) I can vote in local elections or MEP elections but not for the government of the country I pay taxes to. We are stuck with a Cameron/Osborne lookylikey who is hell bent on toeing the Merkosy line and imposing austerity like you haven't seen on citizens. New tax on electricity of 7% for the government and 5% on gas for the government. That will be a nice increase in the cost of living for the countries poor! 

[tigers_gonads]

Vote UKIP
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No UKIP option for us in Spain. In fact due to a cruel trick played on immigrants (i.e. me) I can vote in local elections or MEP elections but not for the government of the country I pay taxes to. We are stuck with a Cameron/Osborne lookylikey who is hell bent on toeing the Merkosy line and imposing austerity like you haven't seen on citizens. New tax on electricity of 7% for the government and 5% on gas for the government. That will be a nice increase in the cost of living for the countries poor!

How long do you thing it will be before you tell then to stick the euro and we can have cheep holidays again ?

[Nickbat]

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What he said! 

Seriously, though, this is disgusting and it shows how out of touch the Brussels clique is. 

[cleggy]

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Simples again from me


REFERENDUM NOW!!!!

[tigers_gonads]

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What he said! 

Seriously, though, this is disgusting and it shows how out of touch the Brussels clique is. 

Imo, its just a gravy train for retired no-mark's like Kinnock, Bliar and his chums 

They have only one ambition, to turn europe and anybody they can con into joining into one big socialist super state which will be run from Berlin.
Each and every country will become nothing more then a province in the United States of Europe 

I fear for my children future 

[Varche]

Vote UKIP
simples 

No UKIP option for us in Spain. In fact due to a cruel trick played on immigrants (i.e. me) I can vote in local elections or MEP elections but not for the government of the country I pay taxes to. We are stuck with a Cameron/Osborne lookylikey who is hell bent on toeing the Merkosy line and imposing austerity like you haven't seen on citizens. New tax on electricity of 7% for the government and 5% on gas for the government. That will be a nice increase in the cost of living for the countries poor!

How long do you thing it will be before you tell then to stick the euro and we can have cheep holidays again ?

Holidays in Spain are not too bad pricewise already. A lot of places do All inclusive now.Still not a long flight. Exchange rate is not bad either now compared to last year. Now a £1 is about 1.22 euros. For a really cheap holiday I could collect you at the airport and then put you to work mixing concrete, painting, tiling, digging. It would look good on your CV too. "Went to third world country and helped the poor folk ..........."

[Kevin Wood]

Holidays in Spain are not too bad pricewise already. A lot of places do All inclusive now.Still not a long flight. Exchange rate is not bad either now compared to last year. Now a £1 is about 1.22 euros. For a really cheap holiday I could collect you at the airport and then put you to work mixing concrete, painting, tiling, digging. It would look good on your CV too. "Went to third world country and helped the poor folk ..........."

Great! Where do a sign? Do I get to drink the end results?

Ah! Hang on, you grow Olives, not grapes?.. Shucks!

[jimac]

I don't think they expect to get 6.8% though, they're just playing the budget game.  They'll ask for 6.8% when they know they'll accept 2.8%, which is still more than last year but everyone will feel good about knocking them down!

[Dishevelled Den]

Vote UKIP
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No UKIP option for us in Spain. In fact due to a cruel trick played on immigrants (i.e. me) I can vote in local elections or MEP elections but not for the government of the country I pay taxes to. We are stuck with a Cameron/Osborne lookylikey who is hell bent on toeing the Merkosy line and imposing austerity like you haven't seen on citizens. New tax on electricity of 7% for the government and 5% on gas for the government. That will be a nice increase in the cost of living for the countries poor!

Still, you get some nice weather V.

[Varche]

Holidays in Spain are not too bad pricewise already. A lot of places do All inclusive now.Still not a long flight. Exchange rate is not bad either now compared to last year. Now a £1 is about 1.22 euros. For a really cheap holiday I could collect you at the airport and then put you to work mixing concrete, painting, tiling, digging. It would look good on your CV too. "Went to third world country and helped the poor folk ..........."

Great! Where do a sign? Do I get to drink the end results?

I'll send you a blank piece of paper right now for your signature.

Ah! Hang on, you grow Olives, not grapes?.. Shucks!

We grow two types of seedless, masses of a sweet white seeded grape and one red seeded. You would have to pass "clean feet " muster to be involved in wine production but not for testing..

[Dishevelled Den]

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What he said! 

Seriously, though, this is disgusting and it shows how out of touch the Brussels clique is. 

It may not be enough to promote the fundamental change needed Nick:  Westminster, as it presently exists, will continue to be burdened by the baggage of past profligacy and lack of effective sanction - so ably practiced and enjoyed (and exploited) by its duly elected members. 

In this regard I'm coming to the sad conclusion that we might well get more of the same - how that can be averted I don't know at the moment - but I fear that the schism between those who would seek to rule, and those of us who are ruled as a result of their tenure, is too deeply ingrained within that establishment to provide the traction needed for real change.

It seems to me that the notion where people elected to serve in the governmental institutions of this nation should be doing so while having the best interests of the people of it at heart - rather than those of their own – is rapidly becoming an unattainable goal.

The lust for power and influence, and the ever menacing presence of ‘Brussels’, have all conspired to render the qualities of both decency and honour – essential in public servants -  to be traits practiced only by fools and those deemed to be inconsequential.

[Rods2]

With politicians, the rot really started when they wearn't allowed to work and be an MP, as many professional people, had real world experience and they did the public service to put something back into society.

Now we have career politicians, who if they were any good at anything, they would be making far more money doing that compared to an MP's pay. So they are only their for the money and vanity, which is boosted by every successful sound bite.  There are a few exceptions like John Redwood, Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith but they are exactly that, exceptions.

Change can happen relatively quickly in politics, if enough people vote UKIP, the Conservatives, will have to pay attention to this audience and change their policies, but as an example the Labour party got its first MP in 1910 and formed their first Government in 1924.

Vache did you register to keep your UK national election vote for up to 15 years? You can do this by registering with the council that covers your last address you were on the electoral role at, before you emigrated.

Will the MEPs and the reset of the officials get a 6.8% rise in their pay and perks, of course not they will expect at least 20%. 

Plus you know the money is being well spent, with so little fraud, the auditors have refused to sign off the EU accounts for years as a true and fair reflection of the situation. In Italy and Greece they pay more subsidies for acreage of oil groves than their is agricultural land in the country. 

[Kevin Wood]

Nail on head, Rods2.

We have lost the "elder statesman" from politics whose presence, if even on the back benches, provided some sanity drawn from much broader experience than the forty-something shower of etonians we have now.