Eu Budget Is Illegal

[lindapalmara]

surprise, surprise! This is the 21st year the accounts could not be signed off. They expect us to reman in this corrupt organisation.

[Gromit]

// Please go and lie down in a darkened room! //

Good idea. Might save me from your blatant lying.

The budget is NOT illegal. They have been signed off by the auditors.

[lindapalmara]

As usual Gromit gets offensive when confronted with some clear facts.

[Togo]

linda the books would not be signed off by any accredited auditor, for a legitimate company, by the 'standards' applied by this bunch of thieving shysters.

[lindapalmara]

I agree Togo

[sevenOP]

http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/AB_2013/AB_2013_EN.pdf

[Togo]

The above link is a carefully crafted synopsis for the 2013 accounts!!
But if you look at the very last page it shows(in the form of a bar graph that is not to scale) that in the Expenditure Transactions there is an error of 4.7%. It does not give the figure which turns out to be 7.05 billion Euros. That is only of course the detected 'errors' (that is what they call them) in the expenditure. Who decides this expenditure? What is being done to correct (fiddle?) the errors?

[Gromit]

The whole thread is based on a lie. The accounts are not illegal.

To call out a lie is not being offensive. The facts are easily found, and do not support your argument.

[Togo]

/According to the annual report of the European Court of Auditors, seen by The Telegraph, £5.5 billion of the EU budget last year was misspent because of controls on spending that were deemed to be only “partially effective” by experts.
The audit, published this morning, found that £109 billion out of a total of £117 billion spent by the EU in 2013 was "affected by material error”.
It means that the Brussels accounts have not been given the all clear for 19 years running.//

This was Nov 2014 nothing has got better since. 2 decades and the EU accounts have not been signed off.

This is how they fiddle it.
“[Auditors] examined a project in Spain which consisted of the purchase of four helicopters, to be used 75 per cent of their operating time for EU border surveillance and control. However, the ECA found the helicopters were only used 25 per cent of the time for this purpose,” said the report.
In another case, the commission handed out £1.4 million in funding for social development in Moldova “for which no underlying expenditure had been incurred”.

[lindapalmara]

Thanks Togo. I notice Gromit is still in denial! Black is still white!

[Togo]

Ta lindpalmara. Enough to drive us mad.

[Bazile]

What are you euro sceptics all worrying about ?

Angela , has given the nod to Dave, with respect to his key demands .

He'll be doing a Del Boy and knock it out to the public soon .
We will then go to the polls and as directed by Dave , vote to stay put .

We can then go back to worrying about important things like why there are no black or white actors in Bollywood .

Dave will be given his knighthood and all will be well