Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-10-22-Speech-2-088-000"
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"en.20131022.5.2-088-000"2
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"Mr President, businesses – small, medium and large – have been contacting me in their droves about this much-vaunted EU investment, this mythical EU money that the pro-European argument says the UK is so heavily dependent on.
Let us put aside the argument that EU money actually does not exist. The fact is that there have been no calls, from 2000 onwards, for grants. This is because delays in agreeing budgets have led to indecision and confusion over such EU funds. Civil society, the bedrock of democracy, is promised EU grants, but again there has been too much uncertainty and, more disastrously, inaction.
I note, on the other hand, that the EU is not too slow when taking our money – our taxpayers’ money – but is too arrogant and negligent in throwing back some crumbs. No wonder the people of the United Kingdom have decided – and want to decide in a referendum – that they no longer want to be part of this sham and that they want to spend their money in the United Kingdom, not propping up some failing countries across Europe."@en1
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