Great interview

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Oh, dear what Gove actually said was "We've had enough of the 'experts' ", the political class who think you are better than you or I. Off the top of my head: Blair/Mandelson - The Iraq debacle, Major, privy council enforcer, The Kinnocks £1m/year from the EU (inc expenses), Ken Clarke (The Tobacco barons stooge), the EU benificiaries of our payments. They think they know better than us, but by-and-large they only want to feather their own nests.

Oh no he did not! - Here's the interview;

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As for the cost of the EU, 40% is spent on CAP. Measures show it has little or no social benefit.

Indeed.  However, CAP is a little more complex than some would have us believe.  It’s one of the reasons I want us to stay in the EU.  The Rural Development Fund comes under Cap.  We’ve derived huge benefits from that fund in Scotland.  From 1979 onwards we endured 17 years of Tory rule that we did not vote for, if it wasn’t for CAP and the Rural Development fund many of our more remote communities would have perished and died, communities that today with investment are now thriving and contributing to the economy.  So oh yes there is social benefit. 

Stupid practices like once monthly taking the whole parliament to Strasbourg are unjustifiably wasteful, yet one country got it's way and the rest had to fund this ridiculous process (do you like your income tax being spent on that? I bloody don't)

I’ll agree with you there pilninggas, yes it a total waste of money and some of these practises give the EU and air of arrogance which is coming back to bite it now.