ONE RULE FOR THEM AND NONE FOR THE EU

There was once a time before I became active in politics, back in the days when this blogger lived a normal life. In the mornings I would get up, feed my menagerie of dog and cats, make a cup of tea for Mrs Blogger, have quick slurp of coffee and then go off to work in our little family business where I would juggle with the books to ensure every last penny was accounted for and all tax records were spot on. If I failed in any of these tasks, which I did with little pleasure and for no profit, just to ensure some faceless Government, tax or Customs and Excise official could ensure I wasn’t withholding an extra penny or two. Added to this, if I failed to get this mass of paperwork to them in time, then woe betide me and our miniscule company as the might of officialdom would descend upon us from a great height and hit us hard. Many struggling companies, which possibly could survive in times of recession continuing to give their staff employment, are often finished off by the power and might of the state when falling foul of all this bureaucracy, which shows no mercy.

As a limited company our books had to be audited each year and accounts sent to Companies House, and as stated, every last penny and brass farthing accounted for. However, whilst our Government and all its myriad agencies with their thousands of paper shuffling staff were keeping an eagle eye on us struggling to survive and actually producing goods, no one could give a monkey’s fart about what the EU was up to with the £billions of our taxes, being paid by little companies like my old family business, and then shipped off to our masters in the EU, who in turn promptly squandered, lost and spent it on all sorts of EU frivolities – and no one cares – not even the EU’s own auditors who have now refused to sign off the EU’s books for the sixteenth year in succession.

Why do we have one vast and complex set of rules for those who wark hard and our countries wealth creators, who actually produce and manufacture goods and provide useful services, and then another for the EU which is a self serving, utterly useless and pointless organisation which is of no use to man nor beast?

It seems that vast sums of our hard earned and ill afforded money was lost by the EU mainly on agriculture, development aid and fisheries. Marta Andreasen who as a one time employee of the European Union, and now a UKIP MEP, said: "The Auditor´s annual report reveals that the largest policy group in the EU budget is Agriculture and Natural Resources, which pays out €56.3bn per year – almost half the total EU budget – and it has seen an increase in the error rate from 2% to 5% this year.

While we in the UK struggle, with the prospects of things becoming even harder soon, and while our students are faced with a lifetime of debt and misery, the EU continues blithely as if nothing in its gold plated world is wrong – who cares if a £billion here and £billion there drops off the edges of the books.

As long known about, and common with the way the EU goes about things, no one actually bothers to check if the crops which the EU subsidises actually exist. A few years ago someone made the comment that if Spain had all the olive groves that were being paid for through EU subsidies, then there would be little room for anything else in Spain.

This and the vast sums of money this country gives to the EU to lose is a scandal which no British politician, other than UKIP MEPs and activists, actually bother about – it is almost as if it was normal for the EU’s accounts to be in such a mess and £billions to go missing – try telling that to the hard pressed and hard working businesses in the UK who are paying for it. There is one rule for them and none for the EU.