Bring out the clowns! - EU wastes millions on circus skills and hip hop

[AlexOC]

As a soon to be tax payer and local uk resident, i have no problem that my future earnings will go towards funding such things.

[Catzsy]

UKIP have commented on the article, if Labour wanted to comment then they could. Do you not like seeing how wasteful the EU and this government is with our money? - the truth hurts. If you want to post the great work Labour is doing then please do so although i'd say you'd be pretty hard pressed to find any. As for hip hop and the circus, if you like it then nobody is preventing you from going to a hip hop studio or your local circus - the question is, why should I and millions of others who have no interest pay for it?. You say no links, no its very simple Rosie and its something most other countries do so dont label me as 'stone age' - I want to be friends with Europe but not taxed by and ruled by the European Union, which most of the European people despise anyway.

Probably because it's just your opinion which you are entitled to but there is no evidence anyway that there is a
huge protest against it. It is no different to lots of things you bring up. If people are that fed up they take to the streets to protest or support like the 1500 bikers showing their support in Wooton Bassett in support of the troops. Like the strikes in the winter of discontent and the huge anti protests in respect of the Poll Tax, Fox HuntingBan and Iraaq. Whether I agree with some of these protests or not they took to the streets in large numbers. Now that's an issue.

[Jordy]

I am against this tbh. If people want to go to Circus's (And Rosie rightly pointed out they are part of our culture) then they can pay to see them. It's all about having a small state, if ideas such as this were scrapped, taxes could be lowered and then individuals would have the money to spend it how they like (On drama schools or circus's if they wish). The government (or EU) shouldn't decide how to spend our money on the likes of this.

Couldn't they just save money and get the clowns out the EU Commission to perform in circus's?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Probably because it's just your opinion which you are entitled to but there is no evidence anyway that there is a huge protest against it. It is no different to lots of things you bring up. If people are that fed up they take to the streets to protest or support like the 1500 bikers showing their support in Wooton Bassett in support of the troops. Like the strikes in the winter of discontent and the huge anti protests in respect of the Poll Tax, Fox HuntingBan and Iraaq. Whether I agree with some of these protests or not they took to the streets in large numbers. Now that's an issue.

You go and ask any taxpayer on the street, just go and ask them if you dont believe me and see if they think this is a good idea. Why do you think the European Union has such a bad reputation Rosie? - apart from being dishonest, left-wing and unelected (all three usually come together) they have a reputation for wasting money hence why they havent been had their own audits signed off for over a decade. You may like higher taxes and wasteful spending, but personally I have never met or spoke to anyone off these forums/in real life who holds such a view.

Ever heard of the terms silent majority or middle england? - I am them.

I am against this tbh. If people want to go to Circus's (And Rosie rightly pointed out they are part of our culture) then they can pay to see them. It's all about having a small state, if ideas such as this were scrapped, taxes could be lowered and then individuals would have the money to spend it how they like (On drama schools or circus's if they wish). The government (or EU) shouldn't decide how to spend our money on the likes of this.

Couldn't they just save money and get the clowns out the EU Commission to perform in circus's?

Thank you Jordy, common sense.

[alexxxxx]

Ever heard of the terms silent majority or middle england? - I am them.

you must be a troll

[-:Undertaker:-]

you must be a troll

Nothing to say on EU waste alex?

Then again you have said in the past you believe most of the British people actually want a federal Europe so i'm not suprised.

[Invent]

Well I'm happy for a part of my wage to go towards this so it's cool with me. Why do you try and speak for the nation Undertaker when there are thousands of people like me who are happy for some of our tax money to be spent on things such as this - why don't we get an opinion on what our tax money should be spent on?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Well I'm happy for a part of my wage to go towards this so it's cool with me. Why do you try and speak for the nation Undertaker when there are thousands of people like me who are happy for some of our tax money to be spent on things such as this.

Thousands may support it, I can gurantee that millions will oppose it.

All you Labour supporters on here are pretty happy for it, mainly because its the EU doing it which you all mostly support and the fact that i'm the one posting it so thus you will oppose it naturally. Although why dont you understand the fact that if people want to pay money towards a circus and so on they should do it with their own money rather than that of everybody else? - is that really a hard concept. I just wonder whether you and others here are as generous in real life as you are on here with your preaching.

I very much doubt it.

[Invent]

Thousands may support it, I can gurantee that millions will oppose it.

All you Labour supporters on here are pretty happy for it, mainly because its the EU doing it which you all mostly support and the fact that i'm the one posting it so thus you will oppose it naturally. Although why dont you understand the fact that if people want to pay money towards a circus and so on they should do it with their own money rather than that of everybody else? - is that really a hard concept. I just wonder whether you and others here are as generous in real life as you are on here with your preaching.

I very much doubt it.

Why can't you understand that perhaps the majority of us may actually want our money to fund things such as this? What makes you think the entire british public is 100% against it like yourself? I also don't really care that you posted this thread as I don't actually know who the heck you are so it's not like I dislike you.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Why can't you understand that perhaps the majority of us may actually want our money to fund things such as this? What makes you think the entire british public is 100% against it like yourself?

Then why not let you all pay for it and let me and the 'minority' keep ours - that way you can get to watch your circus acts/clowns and we can spend our money on something a little more useful. You're local circus must be minted with the likes of you around;- i'm sure you donate on the side as well yeah because its such a great cause? - oh wait, that wouldnt work would it because its infact the majority who dont want to waste money on things like this and without our money these useless schemes would not run/close because in reality there is no real demand for them.