What price freedom? The EU – in or out?

On 23rd June we have a choice – to remain a member of the EU or wrest control from the unelected Brussels bureaucrats who have slowly eroded our ability to make our own laws and govern ourselves.

To understand the choice we face we need to understand where the EU came from, what it is and what it does.

The video attached to this post contains facts about the creation of the EU, not assumptions, not projections, not scare tactics, but facts.

Many of these should deeply trouble everyone.

Our government is telling us that if we exit the EU our world will end. It won’t.

The politicians and corporate heads, telling us to vote remain, all have a massive vested personal interest. It’s about what’s best for them – not what’s best for Britain or the British people.

Next time you read about some think tank or other predicting doom, gloom and financial ruin if Britain exits, run the organisation through Google. Without exception you will find the organisation is funded by the EU – or have some personal or corporate financial interest in Britain remaining.

Even prime ministers can’t be trusted to tell the truth – Edward Heath lied through his teeth, when pressuring the British public to vote to join the EU. He said the British fishing industry would not be damaged by Britain’s membership – in truth it was decimated.

Remember Tony Blair – he told us we would face hardships if we failed to adopt the Euro.

David Cameron says World War III will break out if we leave. He is a career politician. His reward will be a long and lucrative political life riding the EU gravy train.

The same goes for George Osborne.

On the Labour side Neil (Lord) Kinnock is urging us to remain – his reward will be adding to the £10 million pot he and his wife Glenys have already received from the EU.

So you get a flavour of the figures involved, Lord Kinnock earned £1.85million in salary during his 10 years at the EU and qualified for a residence allowance for living in Brussels worth £276,962, an entertainment allowance worth £64,564, an installation allowance of £25,348 for taking the job, a resettlement allowance of £13,745 for leaving the job and a transition allowance, to help adjust to life outside Brussels, worth £355,143.

He also qualifies for a pension which pays out £83,089 a year that would cost £1.16million to buy in the private sector. The terms of his pension require him to remain supportive of the EU project.

Lady Kinnock earned £774,838 during her time as an MEP.

She was also entitled to a daily subsistence allowance worth £505,818 over that time, travel allowances worth almost £1.25 million and general allowances worth £577,071.

Perhaps the most outlandish of the European Union’s excesses is the travelling circus that once a month sees the European Parliament decamp from Belgium to France.

Over the course of the weekend, some 2,500 plastic trunks are loaded on to five pantechnicon (huge) lorries and driven almost 300 miles from Brussels to Strasbourg.

On Monday, around 1,000 politicians, officials and translators make the same journey on two specially chartered trains.

A few thousand more will go to Strasbourg by other means, as the European Parliament switches from Brussels, its permanent base, to its ‘official’ home in northern France.

In all, the EU admits that the monthly Strasbourg sitting, which lasts just four days, costs an additional £93 million a year. Interestingly The Conservative Party in Europe estimates the cost at £130 million, or about £928 million in the seven-year cycle of an EU budget.

The attached video runs for over an hour.

Watch it it, consider it, then decide.

I’m voting for exit – not for me – but for my children, my grandchildren and for Britain.