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Re: Brexit (New Poll Added)
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Originally Posted by denphone
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And if the lies are repeated often enough (which they were, in the Express and Mail), people accept them as truth.
Sort of like "E.U. Corruption"...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi...endum-36276175
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Claim: The European Union is so corrupt that the European Court of Auditors has not signed off its accounts for 20 years.
Reality Check verdict: The Court of Auditors has signed the EU accounts every year since 2007, while pointing out that EU countries, once they receive the EU funds, misuse about 4.4% of the total budget...
...The latest report, published in 2015 for accounts in 2014, explicitly said that the auditors were "signing off the accounts" as they have done every year since 2007.
The Court did point out that some of the funds - 4.4% of the total in 2014 - were not used in accordance with the EU rules. But it stressed that this "is not a measure of fraud, inefficiency or waste", but money that: "should not have been paid out because it was not used in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations".
The auditors said typical cases involved roads or airports that attracted insufficient traffic.
Poor value for money
It is important to stress that around 80% of the EU budget is managed by member states themselves, and not by EU institutions. The EU transfers funds to the national treasuries and then the countries themselves decide which projects to spend the money on. The auditors have called on EU countries to take more care in their spending.
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---------- Post added at 10:20 ---------- Previous post was at 10:19 ----------
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I did caution my examples with “you know what I mean”. Everyone else got the point - regulations.
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So you used things that had been proven to be false to prove your point - fair enough...
You could also have said "Leave means that in the "other restaurants" you don’t have to pay your bill or that they will give you a haircut and shave before you start your meal - you know what I mean"...
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Last edited by Hugh; 03-05-2019 at 10:25.
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