Cuts- not in the Euro wonderland where money grows on trees.......

I have been out with a severe bout of flu for the past week, so I am sorry for not really writing about the various political news stories.

Last week we saw the full measure of the austerity that Britain now has to face in order to avoid bankruptcy, including the near destruction of our defence forces under the convenient title of a 'strategic defence review' (GREAT idea of building aircraft carriers which won't have ANY aircraft on them, in order to save money or the ironically named 'Astute Class' submarine which is so undetectable it ran aground in its trial- don't tell me, it didn't have an propeller?- is typical), the cutting of £7 billion off welfare, the retirement age at 66 (the French are currently destroying their capital on a proposal for it to be raised to 62!- my heart bleeds for them...) and cuts of 19% around all the other departments save the health service. Except the international development budget- we must keep the third world dictatorships going in the manner to which they are accustomed.

So we are in full austerity drive. Unless it is the EU. Naturally one of the huge problems with getting into bed with the power mad liberal democrats is that they are slavish EU fanatics, who would say 'how high' when the EU overlords say 'jump'. And lo, we have a 6% increase in the EU budget, of which we have to pay £9.2 billion. Call me insane, right wing or nationalist, but I think that if  "we're all in this together", the first thing we should be cutting is this Baronial tithe to the EU.

Imagine what could be done with £9.2 billion, if it were not poured down the drain of the EU Behemoth-  if your from the right this could mean a tax cut, deficit reduction, or a way of stopping the cuts to the defence budget, if your a labour supporter, this could mean a  poverty initiative, extra stimulus or a way of not cutting so severely.  This is why I can never understand why both the right and the left have a current love in with the EU, given the scale of the crisis at home and the amount of money which we give to the foreigners. But will Cameron and our coalition overlords challenge this? Of course not. We have a liberal conservative and a conservative liberal running the country.

This means that whenever anything to do with the EU- note the desire of the French and the Germans to  enforce uncompetitive practices on British industry- the current government will do nothing other than cave in. Forget the "EU treaty lock" of Cameron make believe, the lib dims and the Cameroon loyalists will see to it that the EU interest, not the British, always comes first.