Who robbed the Goose blind is revealed by Gavin Hewitt in his newly released book of revelation titled: The Lost Continent, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-1-444-76479-6.
This book is for EU supporters and agnostics. The scale of corruption within the Eurozone is truly epic. You will not believe the sums involved. Here are some samples:
…”Rising out from Spain’s arid central plain is Ciudad Real’s airport. It sparkles in the sunlight; all glass and brushed steel. It boasts one of Europe’s longest runways. Its vast, airy, light terminal is designed to handle 5 million passengers a year. The total cost of building was just under one billion euros. It hasn’t yet seen an aircraft. It is a ‘white elephant’ funded by the taxpayer. It is not alone. There are other ‘ghost’ airports. All over Spain are half finished projects, testimony to the corrupt politicians who used taxpayer’s cash to fund their grandiose schemes and ambitions…”
Aided by EU taxpayers, Ireland built in excess of 500,000 buildings of one kind or another. 300,000 remain unsold. Ireland’s budget deficit was 32% of its Gross Domestic Product. The EU was supposed to average 3%.
In Greece, homelessness is running at about 25%. Roadside soup kitchens are a way of life now for tens of thousands of Greeks. The Greek credit rating ranks alongside of Mongolia.
Hewitt’s book reveals the true sickness at the heart of this failed enterprise. The depth of EU indebtedness is such that it is impossible to even imagine how it can be contained much less repaid.
“An era can be said to end when
its basic illusions are exhausted”
Arthur Miller
By: charliehunt - 11th May 2013 at 19:33
No it won’t change soon or even later, so your distrust is destined to accompany you to the grave.
By: MSR777 - 11th May 2013 at 19:11
Well, we’ll have to agree to differ. I trust no kind of institution, be it political or otherwise, and please spare me the bit about some of them being accountable by way of a ballot box. The names may change, the system does not. At the end of the day, in their quest to maintain the status quo, they all look out for each other, and for those who they must use, in order to keep it. Sadly, I don’t think this situation will change anytime soon.
By: charliehunt - 11th May 2013 at 11:37
Not true. The EU is the only “institution” where a minority of members of the club subsidise the majority and where there is no accountability of the executive, which is unelected, to its members.
By: MSR777 - 11th May 2013 at 11:27
They’re all as bad as one another. The only differences between these institutions, are the ideologies they espouse, the badges that they wear, and the flags that they fly. I wish it was otherwise.
By: John Green - 10th May 2013 at 21:03
True. But it is the EU’s mastery of the art that affects us most.
By: MSR777 - 10th May 2013 at 20:44
Corruption, incompitance, and nepotism, seem endemic in a great many of the worlds economic, business, and political institutions. We cannot credit the EU with sole mastery of ‘the art’
By: charliehunt - 10th May 2013 at 19:23
I doubt that many of us will be surprised. It has been endemic for decades and has been written about for decades. The only truly surprising thing is that so many still perpetuate the myth of its greatness.
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May 10, 2013 at 6:41 pm