Wrong to give a Knighthood to LibDem’s Nick Clegg

SO, it’s arise Sir Nick Clegg for services to politics (read LibDem, EU). How amazing that, after being awarded the Order of the Boot, by the British public, the establishment rallies around to support one of it’s “own”. We must thank the LibDems for having nominated him and yet again defied and rebuked public opinion! If it wasn’t for Brexit, I am sure Sir Nick would be in Brussels mixing with “his” people!

When Lord Kinnock was an ordinary MP from Wales, you could not find a more vociferous opponent of the EU, which he hated more than the House of Lords. But then his (political) career went pear shape and the Labour party got him a job as Commissioner to the EU.

Joined by his wife as an MEP, they went native on us as they got their snouts into the Commission trough, that gave them riches beyond their wildest dreams.

Under his remit (as commissioner) came the audit function of the EU, so when the commissions chief auditor gave him irrefutable evidence of corruption, fraud, and wasted expenditure, he promptly sacked her, and did nothing about it?

On his return to this country, the Labour party got him a peerage, for his “services”. And nothing has changed. Honours given out to the “Europhiles”, money wasted and so on!

The UK foreign aid budget is now so big (£13 billion, of borrowed money), that the Department for overseas Aid hasn’t the resources to spend it all? So it off-loads billions to other organisations to spend the money on it’s behalf. We give the EU, £1.9 billion a year to spend on foreign aid and help the poor in the world. Last March, the government asked the EU for a report as to how they had spent the money? They could not even identify having received any money from us for aid?

In an act of crass stupidity, the government is to continue paying the EU £1.9 billion a year for aid, until we leave the EU. What about the needs at home?

Yet we have people who say we must remain in a totally corrupt organisation as this and be governed by unelected people, from the same school of failed politics as Sir Nick, and Lord Kinnock. Dream on!

Steve Vickers, Hollycroft