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UK's EU Bill Up 20%
"Britain's contribution to the EU rises by 20 per cent in a year, as the UK's booming economy props up the EU budget...
An “eye-popping” £15.5 billion was sent across the Channel in the year ending March 31, compared with £12.9 billion the year before - an increase of 20 per cent.
The extra money would be enough to put 50,000 more police officers on the streets, or fund 81,000 social care beds.
Brexiteers said the increase was yet more evidence that Britain must leave the EU as soon as possible to stop taxpayers’ money “pouring into the bottomless EU coffers”...
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"The UK has a trade deficit with the EU" = The UK imports more from the EU than the EU imports from the UK. Therefore, to safeguard its lucrative exports to the UK, it is in the EU's own interests to agree a Brexit "deal" with the UK...
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7851/CBP-7851.pdf
researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7851
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@baybizz wrote:
"The UK has a trade deficit with the EU" = The UK imports more from the EU than the EU imports from the UK. Therefore, to safeguard its lucrative exports to the UK, it is in the EU's own interests to agree a Brexit "deal" with the UK...
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7851/CBP-7851.pdf
researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7851
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That argument doesn’t really hold up. You are comparing two different things.
Comparing like with like there will be some countries in the EU that will have a trade surplus with the UK and others with a deficit. Trade decisions have to be ratified by all EU members which is why the trade agreements that the EU does have, have each taken years to come into force.
Can the UK really afford to have trade with the EU disrupted whilst an agreement is concluded?
Agree with him - or not. A Farage extended interview with American TV. Personal back story and reminicenses from come-back kid Nigel Farage - cancer, plane crash... Brexit shambles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gVSHk3CAI4&t=12s
"Twenty-five years ago I felt that the political establishment in Britain and the whole of Europe had got things wrong. In 1945 there was a post-war settlement and reconciliation... you start to trade with each other, and become neighbours again...all of that made sense...
"But what I began to see in the late 1980's was that this idea of close co-operation was actually morphing into something else - that rather than being a co-operative structure it was actually becoming an entity in its own right, a State in its own right, the European Superstate that they are trying to build. And that this was being done without anybody being asked if they wanted it. It was being imposed upon them, and there was nothing voters could do to change the structure, because the people in power were appointed, not elected.
"So these were the first alarm bells. I thought then, and I think now, that the nation state is the model that actually works - that's the thing that we feel an allegiance to.
All these supra-national structures - whether it's the European Union, whether it's the annual gathering at Davos, whether it's elements of the United Nations in New York - these are all attempts actually to diminish the nation state and what it stands for...
