Is our Prime Minister’s thumping of the lectern in Brussels over the latest EU £1.7 Billion rip-off on us the way to win Euro-friends and influence bureaucrats? More demeaning than the theatricals was afterwards the PM apparently laughing and joking with arch foe Barroso or perhaps the TV footage was wrong. Something doesn’t quite meet the eye. Is it creditable that events unfolded as reported and what are we not being told?
Many British Eurocrats, government officials and MEPS loyal to David Cameron’s Conservative Party, are implicated in the EU Commission’s machinery and in managing our country’s decline. It would be logical to deduce that some actually played a part in the latest EU-burden being placed on us. How can they justify the extra borrowing required to fund it, which will ultimately be paid by future generations of taxpayers? Or was this something to be ignored, along with democratic accountability, transparency and economy?
Unfortunately, only now and then do we see in public the top of the EU iceberg, much of the destructive burden is below the surface and needs careful investigation, analysis and thought to identify and quantify. And ruling establishment obfuscation, deceits and denial make the task that much harder. So please excuse the following explanation, which even a rapacious Eurocrat or cliché repeating Conservative, Labour or LibDem Spin Master could understand – pocket science.
Money when used has some economic benefit. When we have money in our pockets or companies have reserves we can use it for our benefit and to get the best ‘value for money’. When this money is taken from us and used by someone else, we don’t benefit much, if at all. So to get back to where we would have been before being robbed we need to acquire, usually through hard work, another approximately equal amount. Total cost to us, twice what was stolen, but alas in a competitive world, we may not be able to acquire that other tranche of money, and so the quality of life, social mobility, macro economy, investment, reserves or savings for difficult times and competitiveness suffers.
And if we need to employ someone to deal with red tape and bureaucracy, we again don’t have the money available for research and development, expanding production, marketing, training and improving competiveness. We would have to work twice as hard to get it, even if possible. Consequently, we are forced into lower value-adding production, a more stagnant economy and a poorer quality of life. The only way to keep going is through wage compression, hence a vicious cycle especially for poorer people, which is exacerbated by a ready oversupply of cheap labour.
Further, many potential opportunities cannot be followed up because the money isn’t there to support them and they are not viable with the existing higher cost base worsened by taxation. Many small businesses cannot start or grow as a result and legislative or bureaucratic burdens further tilt the economy towards existing bigger businesses, which can be aggravated by a large public sector following EU procurement legislation, which favours them.
So the more money in our pockets and the less in those of bureaucrats the more we benefit individually and the more the economy grows. EU Taxation without representation is a denial of democracy, a brake on prosperity, a worsening of the potential quality of life and blatant theft.
In order to pay this extortionate ‘adjustment’ the UK will need to become more efficient, more productive, and more ‘profitable’. It now appears that the necessary improvement in our economy to cover the increased costs will, in itself, become the subject of a further ‘adjustment surcharge’.
Even Kafka couldn’t make this up!
The UK seems to be held in a “Stockholm syndrome”.
Indeed, it’s the old American colonies refrain of “no taxation without representation” which I remember from my schoolboy history lessons, and the idea is equally valid to day.
I wonder if people woke up and saw it as that? “no taxation without representation” or just another increase in the membership fees.
For many I would imagine it is just “other peoples money” that the government gives away. That’s what socialists do anyway, spend other peoples money until it is all gone. I sometimes wonder if they have no concept of where wealth is generated and create thousands of non-jobs, which again are financed out of taxation. It doesn’t effect them personally, in the pocket, not directly anyway, so the EU has become an extension of this. Some might actually benefit from the non jobs created, but for every “non-job” it takes at least 4 wealth creating jobs who pay income tax,NI etc to finance it. I’ve often wondered how many tax payers it takes to finance 73 MEP’s wages and all the membership fees, bailouts. A fair number I guess. A completely superfluous layer of Bureaucracy.
What UKIP needs to do now, is say what that £1.7 billion would have been spent on. As the government redirects money to pay for it. What services are now to be reduced, closed, delayed because of it, or will we be borrowing another £1.7 billion to add to the £1.5 Trillion debt mountain. Don’t quote figures though, because you can almost see peoples eyes glaze over. If that could have paid for 2 brand new hospitals though, or upgraded a railway line, or how about bought nearly 2 battleships, to defend these islands.
It should also be pointed out, our American cousins saw it and they voted with their feet and guns when we tried to tax them and they had no representation. lets hope this latest bout of taxation, spurs on an even larger “People’s Army”.
We will have to wait for as long as it takes for the British public to fully wake up to the reason for our economic struggles and the source of all the insults to our freedom of speech, national dignity and our autonomy in the past few decades. Many people are already completely awake: they have joined UKIP or vote UKIP. Some are struggling toward consciousness, but aren’t quite ready to open their eyes yet. Some sleep on in a dreamland created by years of artful brainwashing that the EU is a Very Good Thing And Britain Can’t Survive Without It. It’s up to UKIP to keep banging the drum of truth, common sense and national pride until no one can sleep any longer.
Theft yes just like when they raided peoples bank accounts in Cyprus
How very very true!
Will nobody rid us of these pestilent Politicians?
How much longer will we have to wait?