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 Use Government Resources Act 2000 to control UK money to Brussels

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A very good point from Ashley!

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Subject: Use Government Resources Act 2000 to control UK money to Brussels

For the 18th year in a row, the EU’s Court of Auditors has failed to approve the Annual Accounts. What a surprise!

Yet again, the unlawful disbursement of many billions of pounds to a body where fraud and corruption is endemic is publicised, complained about, and will then be ignored.

One senior EU bureaucrat once described Brussels money-management to me as “institutionalised looting”.

Yet we have a weapon. This loss and waste of public funds is contrary to the UK’s Government Resources Act, 2000.

The Act calls for public accounts to ‘present a true and fair view’. The EU’s do not.

The Act also demands ‘that money provided by parliament has been expended for the purposes intended by parliament’.

That legal requirement has never yet been enforced on Brussels. It could, and should, be applied to the EU’s disbursement of UK funds.

Mrs Thatcher drafted a Bill to set up an escrow account to hold funds due to Brussels in London until the EU’s financial management was brought up to acceptable international financial accounting standards.

Resurrect that and everything changes. Instantly. In Brussels and London.

 Ashley Mote