The Trillion Euro Question

Today, France and Germany have called for attendees at the Council of Europe meeting to compromise on the European Unions hotly disputed trillion-euro budget, after David Cameron turned up in Brussels threatening to wield his veto.



If you were to earn €1 per second, how long do you think it would take to pay off the European Union budget?

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

vague magazine

David Cameron said he would be “negotiating hard” against an "unacceptable” EU spending increase and defending the British rebate at today's European Council meeting.



Bernard Jenkin, a senior backbench Tory, today said the EU budget is the "one of the biggest scandals of public life" as it is open to fraud and bad management.

EU = mc18
It doesn't mater how fast you chase the European Commission, you never catch up with the money. This fact can be expressed as EU = mc18, where EU is the immovable object, mc = mass corruption and 18 is the number of years that it has been impossible to perform a budgetary audit.

WTF Mr Nussbaum

WWF chief executive David Nussbaum involved in a bit of Insider trading

in a circle

If a body is moving around a circle, even if it is moving at a constant speed it is accelerating.



The cryptic cat crept in, crapped, crept out again.

'DiMocracy' a company limited by guarantee

The Harrogate Agenda

a wrong turning

http://witteringsfromwitney.com/a-contrast/

SHAME

A company limited by guarantee is usually appropriate where some or all apply:

the organisation is to be quite large;

it will have employees;

it will deliver charitable services under contractual agreements;

it will regularly enter into commercial contracts; and

it will own property or leasehold land.

So What is the real 'Agenda' here?

No Mandate Mr Rhodes

The turn-out for the police and crime commissioner [PCC] elections in Cumbria was only 16.38 per cent.

The turn-out figure for Carlisle was 14.92 per cent, Copeland 14.21 per cent and Allerdale 16.7 per cent. In Barrow, only 8.37 per cent (4,464 people) took part while South Lakeland had the highest turn-out in the county at 23.78 per cent.

In total, 64,270 Cumbrians voted and of those who turned out 2,014 spoiled their ballot papers

Which one next hunt

Follow them on Twitter

Lord McAlpine to sue Twitter users who called him a paedophile

"get a grip"

The new acting director general of the BBC, Tim Davie, vows to "get a grip" after George Entwistle's resignation

whistle in the wind

European Union Groundhog Day

EU accounts not signed off… for the 18th consecutive year

EU = mc18

It doesn't mater how fast you chase the European Commission, you never catch up with the money. This fact can be expressed as EU = mc18, where EU is the immovable object, mc = mass corruption and 18 is the number of years that it has been impossible to perform a budgetary audit.

The European Union and the EU Commission draws upon its LEGAL BASIS on budgetary maters from Article 268 to 280 of the EC Treaty. As the European Union has not performed or been in legal compliance for 18 years we should now withdraw from the European Union using the provision of Article 61 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Article 61 Supervening impossibility of performance
A party may invoke the impossibility of performing a treaty as a ground for terminating or withdrawing from it if the impossibility results from the permanent disappearance or destruction of an object indispensable for the execution of the treaty. If the impossibility is temporary, it may be invoked only as a ground for suspending the operation of the treaty.

18 years of non compliance feels fairly permanent to me.

it takes all 27 to budge it