Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-11-20-Speech-4-043"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-11-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report - 20072
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20081120.3.4-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-11-20-Speech-4-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerard Batten2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, as my friend Mr Bloom quite rightly said earlier, it is simply not true to say that the accounts have been fully signed off by the auditors. It seems that about EUR 6 billion cannot be properly accounted for. At current exchange rates that is about GBP 4.7 billion. Britain’s net contribution to the EU budget in 2007 was GBP 4.3 billion. The net amount is after the UK rebate and our own money spent in our own country. There is of course no such thing as ‘EU money’. An amount of money exceeding the UK taxpayer’s net contribution to the EU budget is quite possibly finding its way into the pockets of fraudsters. This neatly sums up British membership of the European Union: a complete and utter total waste of money. More and more British people are realising that the European Union..."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; UK Independence Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut off the speaker.)"1 "Gerard Batten (IND/DEM ). -"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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