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thomas davison

ANGER AS TAXPAYERS FUND FIJI BID TO DROP UNION FLAG

Thursday January 3,2013
By Macer Hall
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THE military ruler of Fiji plans to remove the Union Flag from his country�s national flag � and British money is helping him do it.

Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who seized power in the former colony in a military coup in 2006, has announced that a new flag is being designed to signal a clean break.

It also emerged yesterday that the new fl ag is being introduced as part of a constitutional shakeup funded by the European Union and the Foreign Office.

There was anger last night that taxpayers� cash was being squandered on a diplomatic snub.

William Dartmouth, foreign affairs spokesman for Ukip, said: �For this to happen under the order of a dictator, via a process designed by him and an assembly stuffed with cronies is wrong.

"That it is being funded in part by the Foreign Office and the EU just makes it worse.�

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That it is being funded in part by the Foreign Office and the EU just makes it worse
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William Dartmouth

The current flag was adopted when Fiji gained independence in 1970. Fiji has received cash from a �1billion EU fund for encouraging democracy and human rights and has had backing from the Foreign Office.

But its slow progress to democracy led to suspension from the Commonwealth in 2009.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: �The appearance of the Fijian flag is entirely a matter for the interim government of Fiji.�

Its time the waste of spaces in the government were voted out, its our money they are giving away not theres and we are back to ACCOUNTABILITY, THERE IS NONE.