European Budgets 2014 to 2020

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Photo of Peter Bone Peter Bone Conservative, Wellingborough 4:57, 8 November 2011

It is a great pleasure to follow Mr MacShane, although I did not agree with a single word he said.

I rise to support the motion in the name of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, which is signed by me, my hon. Friends the Members for Kettering (Mr Hollobone), for Bury North (Mr Nuttall), for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron), for Worthing West (Sir Peter Bottomley), for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) and for Harlow (Robert Halfon), and my right hon. Friend Mr Redwood. It is disappointing that no Member from Her Majesty’s official Opposition or any Liberal Democrat felt able to sign the motion. How can anyone disagree with a motion that says that the EU budget proposed by the Commission is

“completely unacceptable and an unwelcome distraction from the pressing issues that the EU needs to address”,

that declares it

“supports the Government’s ongoing efforts to reduce the Commission’s proposed budget”,

and that states that

“the Commission’s proposal for very substantial spending increases compared with current spend is unacceptable, unrealistic, too large and incompatible with the tough decisions being taken in the UK and in countries across Europe”?