It will cost UK Taxpayers £250 million for an Airport in St Helena, why?

Has this Government got any sense at all?

Why have they agreed to spend £250 million of taxpayers money on an airport for St Helena when there are plenty of good and necessary causes right here, with our own people suffering like never before?

I say roll on the elections and welcome Nigel Farage and UKIP. Lets get things sorted, lets dump Europe and lets start living again!

What say you members?

Unfortunately, Ron, £250 million is chicken-feed compared with the net contribution to Brussels. For the year 2010, it  was £9.2 billion. The overall figure is far worse, since this does not take into account the huge negative trade deficit with Europe. All of the major parties are reluctant to do a cost benefit analysis on the advantages of being in Europe, but most analysts seem to think our chumminess with Europe costs us over One Billion Pounds a week !!!

Based on financial data from

 http://www.globalbritain.org/BNN/BN75.pdf

 PS If you really want some EU loony stories...

 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/baroness-ashton/

I think we need to stop giving it away Edward what say you?

Without all the handouts we would be a really wealthy country, instead we are virtaully a 'third world country' now and that is what will get Nigel Farage elected.

We can but hope, but both Cameron as well as Labour are done for!

Nigel Farage and UKIP that is.

You know James if I were in control I would deal with 'offenders' in such a way that others would not wish to undergo the same punishment. I would make an example of he/she who thinks they are above the law.

As for the Brind Party, can't ever see anything like that happening because throughout my life the 'Brinds' have been 'disliked' and I personally have been tagged with the label 'an attitude problem'. I don't think I have, but I do speak my mind and that is what mr/mrs average can't cope with.

No prisoners! lol 

Ron, I think you speak for many in the UK who are fed up with the UK spending more than it can afford and going down the debt plug-hole as a result. As a nation, we need to observe the same rules on financial management as we need to do personally (as a pensioner, I am acutely aware of the need to balance the books) - and we definitely need to put the brakes on taxation. 

The EU 'gravy train' is just one of the  many examples of profligate spending of tax-payers money. The other thing I realised in my working life is that although our continental neighbours give lip-service to the stranglehold of EU rules, they conveniently ignore the rules when it suits their own national interests. We are the idiots and actually comply with EU legislation. Maybe it's the same mentality that would make us Brits form an orderly queue for a firing squad.

Little wonder that most people are deeply cynical when it comes to politics, but I look forward to reading the Brind Party Manifesto when it comes out, it should make interesting reading !

 I totally agree with you there Edward far too much cash is given away   mainly to the wrong countries its time we looked after our own and give  us pensioners a bit more --what do you say ??

the Brind Party --lets get him in quick

James, you are preaching to the choir ! 

I don't expect more money, I just want less taken in taxes !

Your right Ron..if we are held accountable to stay within our wages...then we have to have services that help us keep within our wages....that's not stating an "atitude" problem...that's simply telling the truth.

BUT...when you have schools that have people running them, that refuse to do it...or politicians...or service industries likewise....they live in an different world Ron....the everyday problems are not THEIRS...they think they are ours....but only as long as they can tell us with no questions asked as to how they spend thier money...and rather we want to spend our money for them. THEY can not see where they should be held accountable to stay within thier means...they  have NEVER had to technically. Of course they don't care now that they have made themselves an plush little cushion to fall back on even if it all bankrupts us to the dime and dollar or not. Boy, if you people over there think that your country is given out the money with little in return..you ought to see the USA these days. Much of it is "buy off's " no doubt for stragetic armament to keep the world blissfully "safe" when we all know one nuke anywhere will set off an hundred more possibly...and no one lives thereafter...no one.Everyone over these days..first thing they ask...did someone hack the local Power station?...and wasn't Japan's earthquake an doozy...it's sending us all over here radiation to make our kids have huge toe nails for years to come. People are claiming their powerplant was hacked before the earthquake ever happened. One was to hush down the asking questions(earthquake) of the other event.

Let's take our up coming runners for President...right now neither one of them can muster up even 50 per cent of an favorable vote. That includes by their own party also. We have been lied to so much that people don't trust Government. That goes from local all the way through to national also.

I would tell you to not give them the satisfaction of ruining your health by even thinking about it all...tell them like they tell us....take care of yourself. That's why the east side of town basically looks worse then it did 50 years ago.

Maybe Nigel Farage (UKIP) will read these posts and feel confident that the tide is turning his way, for his kind of thinking. The time is right for change so how about giving them a chance, because they couldn't do worse than what we have suffered for the last 15 years thats for sure!

As for the Brind Party? If only I was 20 years younger!