To show exactly where the £115 million (net) Britain lavishes every week on the European Union at the cost of public services actually goes, we've put together a little collection of links to recent newspaper articles about the activities of Britain's Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
We'll leave it to you to decide whether these people deserve to wield the 63% increase in funding that Gordon Brown approved gifting them at the start of this year, and which will be backdated to the start of 2007.
Or whether spending these large sums on the other causes and purposes highlighted on this blog might be a better use of scarce public money.
MEPs 'expenses abuse' hushed up by Brussels
The Times, 21 February 2008
MEP in £500,000 allowances probe
Sunday Times, 1 June 2008
Second Tory MEP loses position over expenses
Daily Telegraph, 7 June 2008
Tory MEP Sir Robert Atkins flew to wedding on expenses
Sunday Times, 8 June 2008
Fresh names in Tory MEP expenses row
EUobserver, 9 June 2008
EastEnders MEP pays gay lover £30,000 to be his secretary
Daily Mail, 10 June 2008
MEPs say expenses troubleshooter risks a timebomb of further sleaze disclosures
The Times, 11 June 2008
The Fatcat Parliament: How MEPs pocket a staggering £630,000 a year
Evening Standard, 14 June 2008
Tory MEP Den Dover faces quiz over cars worth £65,000
Sunday Times, 15 June 2008
Despite these shocking revelations, and many more, the government keeps throwing our £115 million every week into this EU black hole of waste and fraud.
What will it take for the government to Stop the Cheques and put that money to many more essential purposes that could make life better for those who need it most?
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