dingodan
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- Feb 16, 2011
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From the 250m we did pay we then got around 100m back in regional development funds (helping to create jobs in areas of high unemployment for example) and things like widening participation in education. These are genuine benefits that the UK government didn't/couldn't/wouldn't spend money on but play an important role in underpinning our economy.
This is what it comes down to. The EU forces us to spend money on things you agree with, our democratically elected government may (in your view) not have spent that money in the same way. But we control the UK government, we don't control the EU government. So when they force us to spend money on things you disagree with, and say we have a Labour government who has plans you agree with that it cannot implement due to a lack of resources, then maybe you will understand what I am saying. You are chosing a dictatorship which (today) you agree with, over a democracy which (today) has polcy views you don't agree with. But you can change one if you want to. You cannot change the other.