A few moments research would have revealed the vast amount of taxpayer’s money that the EU spends on infrastructure projects. I was astonished when driving in Portugall, at the miles and miles of brand new motorway (complete with bridges) - all paid for by the EU. Our own highways agency isn’t paid for by the EU, which is odd, seeing as we pay so much to the EU.
When a country keeps changing its government (66 in Italy since WW2) long-term projects get shelved for short-term expediency and votes. Add traditional corruption and criminal control of construction and maybe the surprise is that so many bridges are still functioning.
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Spending money on stuff and wasting money on stuff because you didn’t spend anywhere near enough, giving out proper contracts for the work - are very different in execution.
The EU’s history of “funding infrastructure” is as poor as Theresa May’s “I’m funding the NHS more than ever - honest!”
Whatever anyone says - we just don’t see any evidence of that from the public on the ground level.
The EU should have cracked down on organized crime in particular, especially across the national boundaries, and within the shengen zone. They dream of being this federalist super-state and a rival to the USA - but they just don’t spend the right amounts on the right things… Key words being “Right” there!
Poor policing, high corruption, lapse border controls, shoddy materials, and any “future visions” get wasted on “Man-Made Climate Change” which is nothing but a load of rubbish dressed up as some new age religion almost.
Actually crushing the criminal fraternity instead of “Right Wingers” around the continent - might have made a difference - but no. 
The EU’s ■■■■■ strings have been taken advantage of like a drunk millionaire staggering around a brudder camp - and there’s still no sign that it is going to stop being thus any time soon!
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Think you’re in the wrong thread mate. 
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You reckon?
Winseer is making a coherent argument for an EU wide police force, to check their monies are being spent honestly. Good to have him supporting a more complete EU !
I’ll shup up about that now in this thread.
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Yes, that is correct. I wanted Cameron to come back with the EU’s plans to “Reform” - and it was only when he came back empty-handed - that I became the hardline Brexiteer I am today. 
I once had a lot of faith that the EU could come to solve ALL it’s new problems it was creating by way of achieving “superstate status” - but no. Even now - there is NO sign that the EU is going to Reform. They didn’t even offer the UK an immediate promise to do thus when Leave won the referendum!
…So the same old infrustructure funding corruption scandals - continued… And still do of course. Corners cut on materials, less money spent on maintenance than the explosion in EU traffic would suggest was needed. No provision made for natural climate change instead of all this carbon credits “preventative” bull.
The EU wasted, wastes, and continues to waste money on all the wrong things, rather than “Doesn’t spend it at all”.
People are dying on Italian bridges, just as they are dying in hospital corridors in the UK. “Money that could have been spent saving lives for the future - wasted on the wrong things instead”. 
