ONCE again Lib-Dem Diana Wallis MEP misrepresents the true nature of EU money paid to the UK (August 14).
She and her friends in the Campaign for EU regions (CFER) endlessly congratulate themselves on the amount of grants we receive in Yorkshire as a result of "successful lobbying" by councillors from their plush offices in Brussels paid for out of our local council tax.
The truth is we get back in EU grants less than half of the money which we have to pay into it. In the near future we are to get even less because of EU enlargement.
This will result in the loss of many local jobs.
Regional development agencies and regional assemblies should now be abolished. They are increasingly expensive Trojan horses awaiting the demise of our local councils and conversion into Brussels controlled regional government in 2005.
Bob Lewis,
UKIP NEC Regional Government Co-ordinator,
Boothgate Close,
Howden.
Updated: 10:35 Thursday, August 16, 2001
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