Express view: EU Army is reminder of why we need to leave European Union – Express.co.uk
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But in the meantime the bills from Brussels keep dropping on the mat. Pricey security arrangements for MEPs are just one item, a unit of 46 bodyguards, with 12 of them assigned to protect the European Parliaments president Antonio Tajani.
It is being called a private army and this is clearly no exaggeration.
Both the guards and their drivers will also have to make a monthly round-trip to Strasbourg which will cost a further million or so euros. The profligacy is never ending.
But this extravagant outlay is simply part of a 1.7billion spending binge as the EU tries to squeeze as much as possible out of British taxpayers while it still can.
Our contribution is expected to be around 230million.
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Another expense is what we will put towards a pro-EU publicity campaign (a strong citizen-centric message) in advance of the 2019 European elections.
Britons of course will not be taking part in these elections as we will have left the EU by then.
On one hand this vast expenditure is cause for fury.
But it is also a useful indication of how much British taxpayers money is sucked into the bottomless pit that is the EU.
While any further expenditure is deeply regrettable it is a salutary reminder of the wisdom of more than 17 million British people when last June they voted to leave.
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Mrs May had a tough message for Nicola Sturgeon in her address yesterday to the Scottish Conservatives in Glasgow.
She accused the First Minister of treating politics as if it were a game and the SNP administration of tunnel-vision nationalism.
She stated forcefully that there was no economic case for breaking up the United Kingdom.
She also pointed out the failings of the Scottish government in education and health.
It was stirring stuff and brought to mind that the union of our four nations England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is precious, unique in the world and not something which we should abandon lightly.
The independence referendum showed most Scots are aware of this. Nicola Sturgeon is indeed playing a dangerous game.
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IF the Queen moves her handbag from hand to hand or places it on a table then it is a secret signal to her people that she wants to talk to someone else or is preparing to make her exit.
Mrs Thatcher was accused of handbagging but this is far more subtle.
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