I don't think it does - the fact auditors never sign off the EU accounts mean it was already public
snoopcester Send a noteboard - 25/02/2010 12:50:18 PM
She didn't actually reveal anything that wasn't already in the public domain, so far as I'm aware. So I tend to take her sacking at face value.
I think incompetent is a better fitting word. The way corrupt is used tends to imply a gain is being made while there is nothing here to suggest that.
In addition, there are attempts on going to try and sort it out - there is still work being done to try and tidy up the previous years' accounts... which is a pain in the neck given a big chunk of EU funding goes through the government department I work in. A lot of the problem is that in the past the checks weren't up to standard which they now are.
And you could argue that maintaining a system that makes corruption impossible to detect is itself corrupt, even if nothing else improper happens.
I think incompetent is a better fitting word. The way corrupt is used tends to imply a gain is being made while there is nothing here to suggest that.
In addition, there are attempts on going to try and sort it out - there is still work being done to try and tidy up the previous years' accounts... which is a pain in the neck given a big chunk of EU funding goes through the government department I work in. A lot of the problem is that in the past the checks weren't up to standard which they now are.
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The UKIP makes a spectacle of itself in the European Parliament... why am I not surprised
- 25/02/2010 10:45:56 AM
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Yeah, I saw about that
- 25/02/2010 11:17:48 AM
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Is there a "No Confidence" box on voting slips?
- 25/02/2010 12:26:40 PM
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There should be
- 25/02/2010 12:34:13 PM
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Re: There should be
- 25/02/2010 01:56:46 PM
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A. Whitney Brown had a bit like this 'long about the Bush/Dukakis election.
- 01/03/2010 02:14:11 AM
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What I don't get about the Lib Dems is their stance of ruling out a coalition government
- 25/02/2010 04:03:11 PM
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Marta Andreasen has something useful to say.
- 25/02/2010 11:56:30 AM
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Not sure your link title is true
- 25/02/2010 12:09:45 PM
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The fact that she was fired for it and nothing was fixed strongly suggests a cover-up.
- 25/02/2010 12:25:58 PM
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I don't think it does - the fact auditors never sign off the EU accounts mean it was already public
- 25/02/2010 12:50:18 PM
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"Pretty much a non-country"
- 25/02/2010 02:41:33 PM
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Well, you know... it is a fairly accurate description of belgium.
- 25/02/2010 08:08:38 PM
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It might not actually be all that bad of a tactic.
- 25/02/2010 05:03:01 PM
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The thing with Farage's comments is that they're completely inconsistent.
- 25/02/2010 05:59:14 PM
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Re: The thing with Farage's comments is that they're completely inconsistent.
- 26/02/2010 06:22:29 AM
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