EU Punishment For UK Is RANK Hypocrisy.

'Hypocrisy of the first order': Outrage as Europe fines UK £642m for poor accounting.

ANGER flared yesterday (Mon) after the European Commission brazenly fined Britain £642 million for poor accounting.

The draconian financial punishment was imposed because Brussels bean counters claimed the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had failed to properly administer EU farm payments.

The huge fine was last night (Mon) branded “hypocrisy of the first order” as the European Court of Auditors has failed to give the EU a clean bill of health for the past 19 years.

Details of the fines were uncovered by Whitehall’s spending watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO).

“Disallowance penalties” imposed by the European Commission on payments made to farmers in England had cost £642 million since 2005, the NAO said. Express.