Douglas Carswell

What could we do with our money if we did not send it to Brussels?

The UK currently sends £350 million per week to Brussels. Does that make you or your family better off?

Every penny we send to Brussels is money we can't spend on our public services. Just think what one week's worth of EU fees could pay for:

· A year's salary for over 950 more GPs,

· ...and 2,300 new nurses

· Plus lifesaving breast cancer drugs – blocked by NICE over cost - for 500 patients

· 7 new free schools

· ..along with annual wages for over 2,200 new teachers

· Upgrading East Anglian rail lines and building a new rail terminal in East London or expanding Liverpool Street station

· And saving 15 police stations and 190 police jobs in Essex

Or we could reduce borrowing by £18 billion per year, and immediately cut the deficit by 20%.

Alternatively, we could let the EU spend our money on what it wants. £350 million almost pays off the UK's annual bill for the EU's corporate PR. Or goes towards essential projects like lifts to nowhere, airports for ghosts, and homeopathy for farm animals.

Don't expect the Prime Minister to "renegotiate" our membership fees either. This is the man who last month paid a £1.7 billion bill to Brussels that he described as "appalling". In fact, as we cut our public spending across the board this year, our EU contributions are projected to rise. This Government really believes that taxpayers' money is better spent on Brussels than Britain.

The only people better off from Britain's EU membership are the Eurocrat elites collecting our cheques. The EU is not only holding us back from growing our economic links with the rest of the world but wasting public money that is desperately needed at home.

It's time for British taxpayers to take back control over their money. We're better off out.

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