Dan Hannan has egotubed his latest speech in the Strasbourg Parliament. In it he points out that though the European Police College sits in the South East of England and is there part of his consituency, it is dodgy and should be closed down. Bravo Dan. I quite agree with you, and not solely; over the money and its dodgy accounts.
The very premis of the Bramshill College is dodgy. Why do we need a European Police College at all? Anyway it is good to see Dan following where others lead.
Others such as the UKIP MEP and former Commission Chief Accountant who 5 months ago, called for the college to be scraped, and yes it is in her constiteuncy too,
Andreasen, a former European commission chief accountant, said, "Nearly two years ago the Euro cops were given a final warning on getting their own house in order. They haven't done so", she said. "Now we must cut off their funding for good."
Or maybe back in 2009, when the then UKIP MEP on the Budgetary Control Committee Jeffrey Titford highlighted the problem,
"Yet another EU funded institution is found to have no proper accounting system and public money has been washing through it with abandon as the staff appear to have run the college like a holiday camp."
Update,
As has been pointed out elsewhere Dan has had his eye on the College for a long time, so the above is not entirely fair.
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