The European Council has approved Labour’s rejoining the EU’s Erasmus scheme for 2027 this morning. Higher taxes to pay billions to the bloc…
That means two new negotiations are starting. One on placing the UK inside the EU’s internal electricity market – which will likely entail massive rule-taking and bill rises – and one on a new payment mechanism for sending cash to the EU:
“The agreement would establish a permanent mechanism for an appropriate financial contribution of the UK towards reducing economic, social and territorial disparities between the regions of the EU, applicable to the electricity agreement and any further agreement affording the UK access to the Union’s internal market. The financial contribution of the UK should appropriately reflect the relative size of the UK’s economy and the proportion of the internal market in which the UK aims to participate in line with consistent EU policy.
It is important for the EU that both agreements should follow parallel paths and enter into force and apply simultaneously.”
Labour working hard to reduce friction and barriers on taxpayer cash it has earmarked for lining EU pockets…
UPDATE: Mike Wood MP, Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, said:
“This deal goes far beyond rejoining schemes like Erasmus.
The UK is now being subjected to pay into funding EU infrastructure, regeneration and cross-border projects across Europe that bring no direct benefit to the British public.
“Keir Starmer appears ready to sign up to substantial payments to Brussels without securing meaningful returns – raising serious questions about value for money for hardworking British taxpayers.“
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”