EU Funding. Waste

More top draw socialism via Calling England and Old Holborn, comes this little bit of fun (read: despair).

It's a database of how the EU wastes your money. I suspect it's been made as difficult to use as possible, although simply selecting a country and a year will pull up results where relevant.

One of my favourites is this, from last year:

In line with the communication strategy of teh ECD ; 1. Improve public knowledge and understanding of teh European Union 2. explain the process of accession and its implications for Turkey and built support for EU membership

Fuck me! Spelling, people! Looks like this is newspeak for "Turks are being prepared for indoctrination".

All was mysteriously quiet on the Libya front in 2007/8. For Pakistan, I noticed a lot of entries labelled "confidential" for 2008. Whatever could it mean? A cool half a million Euros also goes to Nigeria under the confidential label. Not to mention three entries for funds given to Workers' Paradise Cuba with no disclosed purpose attached. I could toy with this database all evening but I'm running out of hair to pull out and I drank all my wine yesterday.

So what do we think? Care to share any others you found?

Give Me Fucking Strength!

Today is the day when it becomes illegal to sell lightbulbs that actually work.

From the above linked article:

In Britain, trading standards officers will be carrying out inspections and members of the public will be able to report any shop continuing to stock the illegal bulbs.

Any individual found importing the bulbs into the EU will face a £5,000 fine and it could be an unlimited amount for big companies.

If I should happen to spot any retailers selling offending lightbulbs whilst out later I shall save them the worry of prosecution and buy the fucking lot!

Besides, what kind of sad, anal, submissive, arselicking wanker is actually going to report their local Wilkinsons for stocking a product that is perfectly functional and decent value for money? I'd love to meet such a person, I don't think I'd stop ripping the piss out them for the rest of time :-)

Oh, and if the EU really wants to cut carbon emissions that much, perhaps it should stop fucking expanding.