Putting figures on anything leads to questions as to how the figures were worked out, who compiled the figures, are they right or wrong and so it goes on depending on which "side" you are on.

In several news items and campaign reports I've seen a claim that Britain pays £350 million per week in to the EU. Others claim that figure is wrong because the Iron Lady negotiated a rebate so after the rebate we pay in only £280 million per week. Right or wrong, either figure's a lot of money.

Now what is that money for? Why are we paying it? When the issue of "The Common Market" first came up, the idea was for some sort of trade agreement? I asked "if it's just some sort of trade agreement, why do you have to pay anything in?"  What's it for? Where does the money go?

You can't pay in to something forever and forever get back more than you're paying in. It seems to me like one of those scams where "investors" pay in and those "in" first get what seems like vey high returns but those in late lose all their money when it's discovered that the promoters were using the payments from later investors to pay the high returns to those who "got in on the ground floor" after creaming off loadsa money for themselves.