Douglas Carswell's Blog

Austerity spending

�12.5 Billion to prop up the Euro.

�1 Billion on a half-hearted intervention in Libya.

A 70 percent hike in our net EU budget contribution this year alone.

An overseas aid budget ring-fenced, with large sums for Pakistan.

It looks to me like austerity only seems to apply at home.

Tomorrow MPs have the chance to do something about it by instructing the government to challenge the legal basis of the Euro bailout payments. Let's do something worthwhile before the recess.....

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