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"Mr President, today’s debate has been slightly more heat than light. Mr Barroso, who has sadly now departed, told us that the EU budget is a catalyst for growth. He is right, assuming that you are a cow or a pig. They do extremely well out of the EU budget and I am sure they will grow very well if Mr Barroso’s spending plans go through.
Let me remind you of the history of this. It is not just Mr Cameron that is calling for a budget freeze. Two years ago six Member States signed the same letter as he did looking for a budget freeze and it is now of course only the socialists, the UK socialists, who are calling for a budget cut. Mr Cameron’s position is still for a budget freeze if he can achieve it.
Let me pick up on Mr Šefčovič’s slightly pathetic remarks about Birmingham City Council and the comparisons to the EU civil service, which would be laughable if he were not so serious. Birmingham City Council employs street cleaners, it employs garbage workers, it employs teachers, and those same civil servants have had a pay freeze for the last three years. What is more, they pay high levels of income tax. They do not pay the 16 % income tax that your EU civil servants pay.
When you cut out the waste, when you cut out the fraud, when you cut out the irregular payments, when you cut out the errors in the budget, then come back to us and ask for more money."@en1
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