Parlamentet bruger £1 mia ud af £300 mia i offentlige udgifter, og at forvente, at det budget skal kunne imødekomme de krav, som konvergenskriterierne fra Maastricht stiller, er det rene nonsens.
The United Kingdom consumes £1 billion out of £300 billion of public expenditure and to expect that budget to satisfy the demands of the Maastricht convergence criteria is a nonsense.