Chancellor Osborne breaks £1.7bn promise

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Osborne breaks £1.7bn promise

Last autumn, Osborne claimed he had forced Brussels to cut in half the £1.7 billion “prosperity tax” Britain had been billed by the EU, promising he had secured a “better deal” and that he had got a “result for Britain“. At the time the PM called the original bill “appalling” and “completely unacceptable“.

As PM said EU bill unacceptable. Now we've halved the bill, delayed the bill & pay no interest on the bill. Result for Britain

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) November 7, 2014

Guess what?

Osborne delayed the payment until after the election, then this month quietly paid the bill in full. In fact, we paid £2.9 billion, and will only get back the difference at a later date. Eurosceptics and hard-working taxpayers alike will be furious at this capitulation to Brussels.If Labour are going to be any sort of opposition whatsoever, this is the sort of thing their new Brexit-backing leader should be leading on at PMQs…

I wasn't stupid enough to vote Conservative.

Many saw through the spin last year - we knew this was coming.

A taste of things to come when Dave comes back from his wonderously successful 'renegotiation' of our relationship with the EU.

Thoughts?

[AgnesIO]

So they'll get the money back inna rebate.... moving on.