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Fraud is absolutely rampant yet no one seems to care.
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The Editor
The Yorkshire Post
Wellington Street
Leeds
LS1 1RF
30 November 2005
Dear Sir
I wonder if you would allow me a little space to put right Mr Dods of the European Movement when it comes to budgets and Mr McShane. On the morning of Tuesday 15 November I sat through a budget debate in the European Parliament. The fate of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was discussed, much of it British. The chamber was empty for most of the morning. At one stage UKIP members made up 40% of the parliamentary representation from all countries. In other words the chamber was virtually empty. We heard again for the eleventh year how the auditors could not sign off the accounts.
Fraud is absolutely rampant yet no one seems to care. There were no representatives of Labour, Conservatives or Liberal Democrats for most of the morning.
When the voting started the chamber quickly filled and the budget was voted through again.
If this were a public company the directors (i.e. the Commission) would long since have been sent to prison. We send £1.25 million an hour to this corrupt and failing institution yet our MEPs who never miss an opportunity to claim their £180 attendance allowances in committee, to discuss the harmonisation of windscreen wipers or spirit bottles cannot be bothered to show up for the main event.
It is the duty of the British government to stop sending this large amount of money every year until the organisation puts the house in order.
Apologists like Mr Dods and the European Movement and Mr McShane do their cause no service by defending this scandalous misuse of taxpayers money.
Yours faithfully
Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
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