For readers in the UK, will you be voting tomorrow to elect MEPs in your area? There are 31 parties putting up candidates for these EU elections tomorrow, 22nd May. Yes, that is thirty-one.
Those parties who had candidates elected in the 2009 big yawn event included Conservatives with 25 MEPs, UKIP with 13 MEPs, Labour with 13 MEPs, Liberal Democrats with 11 MEPs, the Green Party with 2 MEPs, the BNP with 2 MEPs, the Scottish National Party with 2 MEPs, zzzzzzzzzz..... sorry, almost nodded off there for a moment.
What is my point? Well, I guess my point is that most of us do not know what the fuck these 'elected' MEPs do for us apart from turn up in Brussels or Strasbourg or wherever else the fancy takes them, earn ridiculous salaries, draw untold expenses, keep their heads down and have no influence whatsoever on the legislation that matters to us because that has already been decided upon by unelected EU Commissioners.
Nick Clegg would have you believe that you are unpatriotic if you do not want the United Kingdom to stay in the EU. Unpatriotic?! I know where my patriotism lies Mr. Clegg...
Do you know how much the United Kingdom pays into EU coffers? Britain's payments to the EU have soared to an eye-watering £53 million a day. Even taking into account Britain's receipts from the EU we taxpayers are still contributing a net figure of £30 million to Brussels every day. These figures show just how much we are being bled dry by our membership of the EU. Can anybody show me the benefits? After Germany, the UK is the second biggest net contributor to Brussels of the 27 EU member states.
If you would like to see an end to this, like me, get out to your polling station tomorrow and vote, or, if you are happy with the status quo, don't bother but please don't put your faith in the promised EU Referendum offered by David Cameron. Pipe dreams...
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