IsAC regulars will know that I have a visceral hatred of the EU which borders on the pathological. Hardly a day passes without something new to remind me of my abject loathing of the bastards, and today is no exception.
So what’s boiling my piss this time? Well in April, Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a £2.7 bill. ‘coronavirus relief package’, with funds to be distributed throughout the bloc. The UK recently paid £750 mill. into this fund, but now the EU is demanding that we throw another £270 mill. of our wedge in the direction of the financial Black Hole of Brussels. This is on the basis that (get this) ‘the UK remains fully liable to contribute to, and fully eligible to benefit from, the fund’. So cough up, say the Brussels’ bandits, or guess what, the UK-EU trade talks will be ‘jeopardised’.
Now I stand to be corrected, but I was under the impression that the UK left the EU on 1st January. Okay, no doubt we have residual obligations to contribute to EU finances under the Withdrawal Agreement, but as I see it, the ‘recovery fund’ was formulated in the wake of the C-19 pandemic, ie AFTER we had left. On this basis, it’s unclear to me why we’ve actually ended up agreeing to contribute anything at all to this fund in the first place.
Notwithstanding the circumstances, the Brussels weasels are maintaining that we are ‘fully eligible to benefit’ from the scheme. Now I call that downright neighbourly of them, so let’s have a look at how this might actually work in the event that we throw this extra £270 mill. into the pot (put the matter of our involvement and initial contribution to the fund to one side for now). Let’s say that in its infinite generosity, Brussels graciously awards us £50-60 mill. (we could of course get fuck all, but that that would put Brussels in a very bad light politically). The funds will arrive with due fanfare, wrapped in sparking paper with a huge red bow, labelled ‘a generous gift to the people of the UK from the EU’. Remoaners will jump up and down, cheering such munificence, and shout from the rooftops about the abundance of benefits which flow from EU membership. ‘Look how foolish we were to leave!’ they’ll trill. Meanwhile of course, the reality of the situation is that we’ll be out of pocket to the tune of another £200 mill. plus.
The are two things absolutely nailed on when it comes to the UK’s financial dealings with the Bastards of Brussels; no matter how much we give them, they always want more, and we always get back less than we put in. No wonder they’re gagging for an extension to the Brexit transition period. They see us as their ever-full ATM. You honestly couldn’t make this shit up. Fuck off you grasping, parasitic cunts. Enough already.
Nomintated by Ron Knee




