DID YOU KNOW?
NO 5-
BEHIND
SCHEDULE
Buckets of
taxpayers money are currently being poured into the
EU'S Galileo Global Positioning System Programme.
This is
behind schedule, massively over-budget and entirely
unnecessary since we can use the
American GPS
System
FREE OF CHARGE.
No
commercial partner has been found as was originally
intended to be the case. Britain is expected to pour
£1.7
BILLION
into the
project.
The late
Gwyneth Dunwoody, Chairman of the Commons Transport
Select Committee, said of Galileo:
"This is not one pig flying in orbit, this is a herd
of pigs with gold trotters, platinum tails and
diamond eyes"...
There is a
complex thicket of contractual and political
obstacles to straightforward withdrawal from the
project. However, doubts about its spiralling costs
and equally widespread doubts about its technical
viability mean a decision to threaten to suspend
payments until such concerns are adequately
addressed could well be sufficient to
KILL
OFF THE PROJECT.
Of course really big cuts in
EU RELATED SPENDING
Can only be
achieved as a result of withdrawal or by decisions
that would, at the very least signal Britain's
intention to depart at an early stage.
A statement
from the British government to the effect that on
ECONOMIC and MORAL
grounds
Britain was no longer prepared to go on funding the
CAP (to which Britain contributed over
£6 BILLION GROSS
would
fall into this category. In this country it would be
met with universal joy and approbation while
signalling unambiguously that Britain had finally
found the RESOLVE to place its RELATIONSHIP with
CONTINENTAL EUROPE on a different footing.
Britain's standing in the emerging economies of the
THIRD WORLD-in which this country will increasingly
have to look for export opportunities-would be
greatly enhanced.
[Of course
the FATCATS
receiving the lions share of the CAP genorosity will
not be pleased to lose their £250,000 a year gift
from the EU]
If the
Budget Commissioner's estimate of the impact of the
Community
Agricultural Policy-CAP
is
correct the saving resulting from the ABOLITION of
the CAP would be between
£40 and £60
a week
a huge saving for
every
FAMILY in the LAND
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eurofacts
28th November,2008
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