Failure to promote EU spin costs dear

Date published: 31 August 2010

Local businesses and organisations will be seeing stars as they face being hit by massive fines for failing to display the EU flag, warned an MEP today.

Public bodies, companies and projects which have received European grants must prominently display the EU symbol on their buildings, letterheads and websites or face hefty fines from Brussels.

And the British Government has been instructed to collect around £150 million in fines from those which have not ‘prominently’ displayed the EU flag or logo.

"This is yet another demonstration of how the EU is attempting to brainwash the people of Britain and erode our national identity," said Paul Nuttall, Euro MP for the UK Independence Party.

"If our Government tried to force businesses and public bodies to fly the Union Flag just imagine the huge outcry.

"We should be proud to be British and we should fly our own flag, when we wish to do so. Why promote the EU which is destroying our sovereignty?

“UKIP is the only party standing up for Britain and fighting the EU power grabbing monster which is hell-bent on devouring our sovereignty and national identity.

“Only UKIP is committed to withdrawing Britain from the EU. Our laws should be made in Westminster not in Brussels,” said Mr Nuttall, MEP for Bury.