for me I have never found a compelling reason to join the EU, let alone take on it's ailing currency, but here is a fact of membership I did not know, it is that Brussels penalises UK museums, firms and councils financially if they do not fly the EU flag, for instance, Advantage West Midlands, a regional development agency, was fined £201,801 for not using the EU logo on publicity material promoting the region to tourists and investors, Birmingham Chambers of Commerce was hit with a £77,609 penalty for using its corporate branding rather than EU logos at an event, but wait a second it was for corporate branding, not a show case for Brussels,
even the YMCA fell foul of Brussels when it's Peterborough branch was fined £1,325, after failing to display the correct material on leaflets, the National Museum of Labour History in Manchester was hit with a £7,233 fine after officials realised there was no logo on a billboard, Merseytravel was fined £13,600 for ‘insufficient publicity’ at the start of a project, while Sandwell Council’s failure to acknowledge the EU or display logos led to a £5,046 penalty, the thing I do not understand is why the UK pays £6.4billion more to Brussels than it received back, then to add insult to injury they fine us for not flying the flag! I wonder if these same officials are walking around say, Greece, France, Spain and lets say Portugal and Ireland handing out fines as they go?
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