That's not quite what I said in #299, I said:-

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.

I was looking at numerous sites and they all gave similar (nay, identical?) figures and I'd not seen your lower figure of £250 million anywhere.

Also, I said (#299) that you can't keep paying in to something forever but getting back more than you pay in but nowhere have I seen this explained away. Does no-one question this or pick up on it?

What's the point of paying in to something without getting any benefit back? Before anyone claims we get back more than that in trade, well, all the EU countries could scrap ALL the payments and just carry on trading so what's the point of all these payments if they only go to pay for the monstrous bureaucratic machine of the EU? In the end, it only seems to be fuelling an ever increasing stream of rules and regulatins which far from encouraging trade, actually make it more difficult and expensive for firms to do their trading.