After all the work that Margret Thatcher did in 1984 with the EU, Tony Blair has taken it away and more with his self importance.
We all knew he was after the Presidency of the EU and in doing so, he sold the UK PLC.
His decision to cut Britain's EU rebate is set to cost the British taxpayer billions of pounds and equal to at least STG 700 a year per person, on top of the current STG 5000 it's costing in austerity measures.
New figures from the UK Treasury indicate that the cost of the decision, dubbed the 'surrender' will continue after the period covered by Mr Blair's negotiations end in 2013.
The cost to each working household between 2009 and 2015, the date of the next general election is put at STG694.61.
Mr Cameron will need to claw some of this back when he begins the next set of negotiations on the rebate in 2012.
Mr Blair said that the 'anomaly has to go' and gave up large chunks of it in return for a promise of a root and branch reform of the Common Agriculture policy which has NEVER happened.
So basically, Mr Blair gave another STG 11 bln for nothing.
This just proves his lack of brinkmanship and European immaturity and the fact that he was in it for what he could get.
Oh yes! he never did get the Presidency!!
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