Graham Watson - Liberal Democrat MEP for South-West England and Gibraltar

MEP condemns £79 Million Treasury theft

4.46.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Thu 8th May 2008

Flooding

South West MEP Graham Watson has reacted in fury to news that the Treasury will keep £79 Million of the £110 Million granted by the EU's Solidarity Fund to help with the clean-up from last year's floods.

"For the Treasury to deny the Department of Communities and Local Government over two-thirds of the EU flood solidarity money is thinly disguised theft. It also shows the absurdity of the so-called "rebate" negotiated by Mrs. Thatcher, which has always enriched the Chancellor at the expense of ordinary citizens".

Mr. Watson will visit the European Commission on Tuesday with Gloucestershire Councillor Jeremy Hilton to discuss the situation.

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