The Alice in Wonderland costs of being in the EU

[Park Life 71]

European legislation and the UK regulatory environment

 

The UK Government works closely with other member states to reduce the burdens of legislation agreed at this level. It actively engages with other countries to share best practice and learn lessons from abroad. A key part of this has been the introduction of the Standard Cost Model (SCM), which several countries – including the UK – now use to measure the impact of regulation. You can read more on the SCM Network website.

 

The Government has also welcomed the European Commission’s efforts to introduce better regulation principles and practices into its own work over the last few years.

Target for reducing the administrative burden

 

In March 2007, EU Heads of Government agreed a target to reduce the administrative burden resulting from EU law by 25%, by 2012. The Commission estimates that this could save European businesses a total of €150 billion (£100 billion). The UK Government was delighted with this agreement, which complements its own work to reduce the administrative burdens of domestic legislation.

 

On 22 July 2008, the Government published the report 25 ideas for simplifying EU law (PDF) which puts forward suggestions to the Commission, and Council on how to realise savings worth an estimated €937 million for the UK and €6.6 billion for the EU as a whole.

 

Find out what the EU is doing to reduce administrative burdens from the European Commission: Administrative Costs page.

 

 

Can we still get out??

 

 

http://www.bis.gov.uk/Policies/better-regu...ean-legislation

Edited April 4, 2010 by Park Life

[Rob W 0]

why? So you lot can try and invade us again???

[Guest alex]

If you've ever stayed in a hotel in Brussels you do get the feeling the place is one big fucking gravy train.

[Park Life 71]

Cost of the EU's 8,500 quangos now £167 billion pa

The Cabinet Office confirmed the cost of quangos in Britain was £167 billion in 2007 (all the national newspapers reported it). That makes it by far the Treasury's biggest expense - the NHS comes next at £90 billion (itself packed with an internal quango bureaucracy costing £60 billion).

 

In 2006 the Cabinet Office reported a quango cost of £124 billion. Only the Westminster News, and the Telegraph six months later, picked it up. This is the reason the Treasury is unable to pay its bills and the pound is falling against even the fragile dollar - ten years ago the cost of quangos was negligible. The massive increase is almost entirely due to the EU.

 

These quangos exist to buy patronage - thousands of influential people are bribed with £100,000 - £300,000 salaries to do nothing but smooth the way for the EU. If quangos do anything, they generally enforce EU regulations.

 

EU Regulation - £100bn pa

The annual cost of regulations to industry, together with the cost the government quangos who enforce them, is now £100 billion per annum or 9% of our economy, according to the 2005 Anual Report of the Government's Better Regulation Task Force. David Arculus, its Managing Director says EU regulation is now our biggest industry (larger than tourism at £67 bn.) There are 113,500 regulations now; only 2% of them are not from the EU.

 

We lose £30 billion pa trading with the EU

Before we joined the EU we broke even on our balance of trade with the EU. Now, according to the Treasury Pink Book, we lose £30 billion on our foreign exchange with the EU. Even this was a lie by politicians - they said the EU would be good for trade. It has been a disaster.

[AgentAxeman 199]

Cost of the EU's 8,500 quangos now £167 billion pa

The Cabinet Office confirmed the cost of quangos in Britain was £167 billion in 2007 (all the national newspapers reported it). That makes it by far the Treasury's biggest expense - the NHS comes next at £90 billion (itself packed with an internal quango bureaucracy costing £60 billion).

 

Before we joined the EU we broke even on our balance of trade with the EU. Now, according to the Treasury Pink Book, we lose £30 billion on our foreign exchange with the EU. Even this was a lie by politicians - they said the EU would be good for trade. It has been a disaster.

 

 

been saying this for age's but like cassandra was never believed.

[Guest alex]

Aye, I don't think anyone ever commented on the price of EU red tape before

[Rob W 0]

and quangos exist in the Uk without any EU influence - its a way to get jobs out of the civil service and into the hands of your friends and allies...............

 

Still the EU is cheaper than another war against the Jormans I guess

[Happy Face 29]

Cost of the EU's 8,500 quangos now £167 billion pa

 

The Cabinet Office confirmed the cost of quangos in Britain was £167 billion in 2007 (all the national newspapers reported it). That makes it by far the Treasury's biggest expense - the NHS comes next at £90 billion (itself packed with an internal quango bureaucracy costing £60 billion).

 

Is that really true? The UK taxpayer has spent...

 

£280bn to Agree in principle to provide insurance for selection of bank assets

 

£250bn to Guarantee wholesale borrowing by banks to strengthen liquidity in the banking system

 

£200bn to Indemnify Bank of England against losses incurred in providing over £200bn of liquidity support

 

£76bn To purchase shares in RBS and Lloyds Banking Group

 

£40bn to Provide loans and other funding to Bradford & Bingley and the Financial Services compensation Scheme

 

Have we got all that back?

[Park Life 71]

Can't really talk about EU budgets and whatnot cause you tend to get fired even if you are the in charge of the budget.

 

 

 

EU budget rejected by the European Court of Auditors – again

 

 

 

 

For the fourteenth year in a row, the European Court of Auditors has refused to certify the EU budget. Not that anyone seems to care. Even in Britain, people are responding with a shrug so dismissive as to be downright Gallic. Yep, the EU is corrupt: et alors?

 

I have blogged before about our indifference to Euro-fraud and about how, strangely enough, I find hope in our cynicism. Think of it as a marriage. So long as there is bickering, the relationship is alive: each partner cares enough about the other’s point of view to want to change it. But when the arguments give way to indifference, the plate-throwing to scorn, the rows to contempt, the marriage is over. If, as a people, we have given up on any hope of reforming the EU then, in our hearts, we have already determined on separation.

 

Still, I wouldn’t want you turn away from this blog without feeling even a spark of anger. So please have a look at this list (hat tip, Open Europe) of the top 100 scams that have been funded by your money over the past year.

 

A final observation. Britain is the second-largest net contributor to the EU budget after Germany. If we withheld our subs, we’d have enough to give the entire country a two-thirds reduction in council tax. With all three parties now scratching around for tax-cuts, I thought that might be worth mentioning.

Edited April 6, 2010 by Park Life

[Park Life 71]

Mrs Andreasen raised her criticisms and proposals for overdue improvements and changes internally, but made no progress with her superior. She then submitted her report to the Commissioner Michaele Schreyer and the Commission President Romano Prodi. She again received no answers and so approached members of the EU Parliament’s Budget Control Committee.[citation needed]

 

She, consequently, refused to sign off the 2001 European Commission accounts. With this, she is not alone – The EU's Court of Auditors can only fully validate 5% of the money spent and have criticized the system every year since 1994. In the discharge procedure in 2003 the Commission promised comprehensive reform [4][5].

 

At this stage the media began to investigate and to report. Mrs Andreasen went public with her concerns on 1 August 2002 [6].

[edit] Sacking

 

Mrs Andreasen was fully suspended from her job by the Commission in May 2002 (for "violating Articles 12 and 21 of staff regulations, failure to show sufficient loyalty and respect"), underwent a disciplinary procedure and in the end was fired in 2005. She said to have been suspended from her job and ultimately fired because she refused to sign accounts she believed were unreliable – in 2002 alone, her office found 10,000 possible cases of fraud in EU accounts. The Civil Service Tribunal of the EU confirmed the sacking of Marta Andreasen in its decision of 8 November 2007.[7]

 

 

 

We need to get out now.

[Park Life 71]

Cost of the EU's 8,500 quangos now £167 billion pa

 

The Cabinet Office confirmed the cost of quangos in Britain was £167 billion in 2007 (all the national newspapers reported it). That makes it by far the Treasury's biggest expense - the NHS comes next at £90 billion (itself packed with an internal quango bureaucracy costing £60 billion).

 

Is that really true? The UK taxpayer has spent...

 

£280bn to Agree in principle to provide insurance for selection of bank assets

 

£250bn to Guarantee wholesale borrowing by banks to strengthen liquidity in the banking system

 

£200bn to Indemnify Bank of England against losses incurred in providing over £200bn of liquidity support

 

£76bn To purchase shares in RBS and Lloyds Banking Group

 

£40bn to Provide loans and other funding to Bradford & Bingley and the Financial Services compensation Scheme

 

Have we got all that back?

 

 

Ybf those are exceptional costs in exceptional circumstances.

 

We should have a referendum about getting out and repeal the Lisbon treaty. It's a road to nowhere...

[AgentAxeman 199]

Britain is the second-largest net contributor to the EU budget after Germany. If we withheld our subs, we’d have enough to give the entire country a two-thirds reduction in council tax. With all three parties now scratching around for tax-cuts, I thought that might be worth mentioning.

 

 

this.

[Rob W 0]

the centre for Policy Studies reckons we will average £ 6.5 Bn a year through to 2017

 

about the same as we'll save on "civil service wastage"

[Park Life 71]

Britain props up the EU superstate with billions of pounds. And the bill is about to rocket by 60 per cent.

24/08/2009

 

Britain is the second biggest financial contributor to the vile EU superstate, which takes our money - £257 a year from every home in Britain- and bosses us around. Now the EU, about to become a single political superstate, just as they always said it wouldn't, is grabbing 60 per cent more of our money! Does anyone care, or even notice? I do- and you should, too! Remember, it was Tony Blair who gave up the financial concessions negotiated by Margaret Thatcher, and started this downward spiral. ALAN FRANKLIN.

This following story is hardly news and was widely forecast, but with attention spans being so short it is good that all are reminded of it - frequently!

 

But if the government had any guts at all it would stand by the principle that if France and the others don ‘t keep their side of the bargain, nor should we keep ours!

 

Christina Speight

[Park Life 71]

EU president's palace will cost us millions

The new folly in Brussels will cost UK taxpayers millions of pounds, says Christopher Booker.

 

 

By Christopher Booker

Published: 7:51PM BST 26 Sep 2009

 

Comments 22 | Comment on this article

 

The EU, we learn. is to spend £280 million building a vast new presidential palace in Brussels for Tony Blair, or whoever becomes the EU's first permanent president, if and when its constitution is ratified. Nearly £40 million of the money needed to erect this bizarre avant-garde creation, looking like a gigantic skittle in a glass box, will come from UK taxpayers.

 

Curiously, this almost equates to the £40 million we are told the Queen needs for urgent repairs on several of her increasingly dilapidated Royal palaces here in Britain. Her Majesty is so desperate to raise the money that she is having to sell off chunks of the Royal estate, starting with the Hampton Court stables, for which she hopes to get £2 million.

[ewerk 31596]

Britain props up the EU superstate with billions of pounds. And the bill is about to rocket by 60 per cent.

24/08/2009

 

Britain is the second biggest financial contributor to the vile EU superstate, which takes our money - £257 a year from every home in Britain- and bosses us around. Now the EU, about to become a single political superstate, just as they always said it wouldn't, is grabbing 60 per cent more of our money! Does anyone care, or even notice? I do- and you should, too! Remember, it was Tony Blair who gave up the financial concessions negotiated by Margaret Thatcher, and started this downward spiral. ALAN FRANKLIN.

This following story is hardly news and was widely forecast, but with attention spans being so short it is good that all are reminded of it - frequently!

 

But if the government had any guts at all it would stand by the principle that if France and the others don ‘t keep their side of the bargain, nor should we keep ours!

 

Christina Speight

 

Do you honestly expect any of us to take notice of an article that uses the phrase 'vile EU superstate'?

[Rob W 0]

Britain props up the EU superstate with billions of pounds. And the bill is about to rocket by 60 per cent.

24/08/2009

 

Britain is the second biggest financial contributor to the vile EU superstate, which takes our money - £257 a year from every home in Britain- and bosses us around. Now the EU, about to become a single political superstate, just as they always said it wouldn't, is grabbing 60 per cent more of our money! Does anyone care, or even notice? I do- and you should, too! Remember, it was Tony Blair who gave up the financial concessions negotiated by Margaret Thatcher, and started this downward spiral. ALAN FRANKLIN.

This following story is hardly news and was widely forecast, but with attention spans being so short it is good that all are reminded of it - frequently!

 

But if the government had any guts at all it would stand by the principle that if France and the others don ‘t keep their side of the bargain, nor should we keep ours!

 

Christina Speight

 

Do you honestly expect any of us to take notice of an article that uses the phrase 'vile EU superstate'?

 

 

or is written by someone called Christina................ a Jorman name that is