UKIP's Toby Horton slams shopping centre monomaniacs |
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UKIP candidate Toby Horton today criticised the main parties in the by-election for concentrating solely on the local issue of the Newton Aycliffe shopping centre. Mr Horton added:
"Today the European Union was forced to admit that it had lost £777 million to fraud or poor paperwork"Mr Horton also pointed out that the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown had obviously suffered a short term memory loss.
"That is a huge amount of money. It's money that could be better spent at home.
"If you like, it could even pay for the now infamous shopping centre", he added.
"It is now 14 years since the EU last had its accounts signed off by the auditors, because of the billions of pounds lost to fraud and corruption."
"Last year in Dunfermline Labour lost to the Lib Dems. Mr Brown,who campaigned hard in Dunfermline, complained that the election had been fought on a local issue and not on policies.
"Mr Brown has abviously forgotten that", said Mr Horton. "Because here in Sedgefield he is backing the Labour candidiate who has publicly announced that the shopping centre is the main issue. The word 'hypocrite' springs to mind."
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