British jobs for Russian workers, paid for by taxpayers

In May 2009, The EU launched a partnership with ex-Soviet states Armenia, Azerbaijan, elarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and there have been moves afoot to get Russia to join.

We weren't told about that.

In the meantime, Mike Nattrass, UKIP MEP, has warned that the EU has a financial stake in exporting jobs to Eastern Europe. The EU holds equity in a General Motors plant in Russia, to which it loaned € 70m in order to finance yet another plant.

Nattrass said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the Peugeot scandal in 2005, when it moved its Ryton (UK) plant to Slovakia, courtesy of an EU grant.

Therefore, the EU is financing the moving of British jobs to Russia.

We weren't told about that, either.

Evidently Brown meant British jobs for Russian workers - paid for by taxpayers.