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"Mr President, when we think of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, or the ACP as we have been calling it here, we think, of course, of the sun. It has become increasingly apparent that the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, which supposedly started as a force of good, has become nothing more than a front for lavish holidays and massaging egos. Who funds these trips? Well, of course, it is us, the taxpayers.
In 2011 a short excursion to sunny Togo by a group of 33 MEPs cost the beleaguered taxpayer, at a conservative estimate, GBP 435 000. In 2014, a 34-strong ACP-EU delegation went to the beautiful island of Tenerife and accumulated a bill of close to GBP 600 000, all courtesy of the humble taxpayer.
The most laughable case of these fact-finding missions was when five delegation members went out to the tropical island of Fiji in 2012. It was supposedly a mission to learn about the political crisis in that small island nation. Reading the four-page report they compiled, it becomes apparent that it was nothing more than a holiday, with a conclusion that the most humble politics student could have googled.
At a time when families can barely put food on the table, the political elite of the EU are taking lavish holidays on their behalf. It is time for Britain to leave the EU and start putting food back on the tables of the British people."@en1
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