I WAS very pleased to read (Times, October 12), that Tavistock is to receive a cash injection in order to give the town's viability a much-needed boost.
However, I would like to take the opportunity to point out where exactly this Euro cash originates — it comes from us.
Membership of the European Union costs us, the British, or rather I should say, we the citizens of the western regions of the EU, over £1-million per hour for every hour in the year and you'd be surprised how many people don't know that.
We than have to go cap in hand to get even half of it back and that's if we're lucky, and that usually has to be match-funded pound for pound or is that Euro for Euro now? — well, whatever, and then it is tied up with so much bureaucratic rules and red tape it makes you wonder why you want to bother to even try and get your own money back in the first place.
Presumably, the other half is kept for the administration purposes and I must say that in all fairness to them as I don't with to sound biased in any way, they do work hard for it. I mean, they must produce more paper work for our benefit that Andrex does toilet rolls.
eg Just the EU directive on the export of duck eggs is a mere 26,900 words long and yes, it does last longer than a roll of Andrex.
If we didn't give all this money to Brussels in the first place we would have bucket-loads of money to fund schemes such as this and other areas that need our monetary attention.
Ask an accountant what's two plus two and he'll answer four, ask some politicians and they'll tell you what ever they think you'll vote for.
And there I rest my case.
Graham Palmer
Lambs Park
Sheepstor