Well Darlings,
You pays your money and you takes your choice: is the 2.9% increase, instead of the proposed 6% increase in the EU budget, a victory for David Cameron, or a defeat? One thing is for sure, though: when it comes to the European Union, Britain sure pays its money!
An extra £430 million in contributions from a nation so poor it relies on the US for its "independent" nuclear defence, and will soon be relying on France to provide planes for its aircraft carriers, and on a French "spy in the sky" to detect anything tailing its naval fleet, seems a bit steep to me. It also seems more than a little stupid!
Have we forgotten about the Falkland Islands already? Did we learn nothing from that war? The US wouldn't openly back us in defending British people (so much for the special relationship!), and the Exocet missiles our lads were dodging were being provided by France, a country that made no bones at all about declaring which side it backed! Let's get real here, the way things are going, we might as well have an army of chocolate soldiers, an airforce of paper planes, and a navy of cockleshells!
We are spending a fortune in taxpayers' money on a defence system which, if push ever came to shove, is almost totally dependent on the cooperation of other nations. Has no one in government ever thought to question: at what price would that cooperation come, should it ever be needed? Or perhaps even more importantly: can we guarantee getting that cooperation in all matters concerning British sovereignty? If history tells us anything, it is that the answer to both those questions is not favourable! In times of war, treaties are often not worth the paper on which they are written!
It is time for our government to wake up and smell the coffee! It stinks! There is not only an elephant in the room, it has undoubtedly dumped!
In the Human Development Report for 2009, where statistics were compiled by the United Nations Development Programme to rank countries according to their education, wealth and life expectancy, Britain slipped a further five places and is now ranked 21st, only marginally ahead of Slovenia and Greece. In the report two years previous to this, we were rated as 16th. And if proof were ever needed that "Things Can Only Get Better" under Tony Blair, but never did: way back in 1990 we were ranked 10th. Those figures make me question: is it really right to expect Britain, a country so drastically in decline, to pay as much it does towards the European Union?
I'm not anti-Europe, or even a sceptic, but fair's fair! We may never have a better time, than under a coalition government, to stand up and say: sorry, but enough is enough. We need every penny we can get our hands on to put this country back where it deserves to be: somewhere near the top of the league, and once more able to defend itself competently, without fear or favour!
The Bitch! (29/10/10)
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