Cameron has not
cut the EU Budget.
My main point in
this note is to emphasize that Cameron’s government has not cut the EU Budget. On the contrary,
the EU Budget is running at the highest-ever levels and in the last couple of
years has been out of control, while the UK government has done nothing
meaningful to check over-spending. Further, the UK’s own contributions to the EU
have soared, even as George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pretends
to be tough on public expenditure. An
extraordinary feature of the situation is that Cameron’s claim is contradicted
by readily-available statistics in official documents from the government of
which, in some sense, he is meant to be “the leader”. Yes, official rhetoric and
practical reality are often different things, but this is ridiculous.
Prof Tim
Congdon.
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