It's not a lie Creeky....that is the amount it costs us to be a member of that failed corrupt organisation . That is the gross amount...and it is GROSS. But then...they give us some back, and they tell us how to spend it. I live in one of the poorest towns in the UK. The EU trumpeted their generous grant of £30.000...and then told us it had to be spent on 'street furniture'. Every person who sees this street furniture is appalled..at the ridiculous design, and more so at the crazy waste of thousands of pounds which could have done so much more good. It is OUR money that is sent there in such large amounts, and our money that they condescendingly cast into into our little begging bowls. There is a whole industry and thousands of people working in the 'grant application' sector. The waste is unimaginable.

As for immigration...we are not doing well at the moment while we are in the EU...when we have our sovereignty back we will be calling the shots and will be better placed to reduce it. But the will has to be there, and I am not sure it is at this moment. Hopefully that will change in the future, when the government wake up to the fact that the British people have had enough.