Should the UK pay up? UK told to pay £1.7bn extra to EU

[bigdavs83]

We already pay £55m a day! What the hell do they £55m a day for?! And that's just from us. I'm with MDJ I'm all for the EU but they absolutely must be reigned in. It's expenditure is incredible and for what?

 

[Guest77]

We need an act of parliament which limits the amount of money in percentage to our GDP, and it should be fixed, if the EU don't like it we should threaten them with a referendum, although I am a for the EU myself I and others who agree with it would be outvoted 2 to 1 and the europeans know it, so they need to be careful or we will be out, then we will suffer for sure but they will as well, JMO.

 

[Guest77]

Watching the news at the moment and it looks like Cameron is trying to avoid paying this 1.7 billion the EU has insisted on, I bet if there were a labour government he would say he wouldn't pay it, now he is in power he will say he has no choice, For once I agree with him, I hope he shows some backbone this time and doesn't back down, we pay 55 million a day now, it needs to stop. I feel his hands may be tied, lets see what happens.

 

[telectrix]

Aye, we do at that, I thought you sat in a wheel chair

thought yours was a permanent fixture at gloster rfc.

 

[Newbyspark]

No no no no no no.

 

[brucelee]

They need it so they can give Germany 700 million euros back and France 1 billion

Amazing we have been carrying out many austerity cuts to everything most working or people are worse of, people starving, or freezing in winter. welfare cuts. To so called pay the national debt down while promoting growth (TORYS WORDS NOT MINE) even though they are spending more than ever.
France as done F??? all and is getting a billion back maybe it better if the economy struggles as you then get money back lol

Tell them where take a running jump back into the English Channel and swim back to Brussels to waste billions yearly and as Tel says pull up the draw bridge and repel boarders.

 

[amberleaf]

Anything been left out Chaps . EU

Take the Great out of Britain

Lobby group Business for Britain warned today that the EU repeatedly ignores the UK's calls for tape cutting and has created 1,139 new laws over the last year alone.

 

[Darkwood]

Just on news Cameron has stood his ground and says he refuses to pay ....

 

[trev]

We'll see. If he told me it was raining outside I'd open the door to check.

 

[trev]

Should we pay? No! Not when we have people here who are forced to use foodbanks to survive, not when people have a choice between heat or eat, etc. etc.
A withdrawal from the EU would be tremendously bad for this country, it's estimated that 4 million jobs will be lost if we bail and there's no way on earth that Farage and co can dress that up as beneficial. Businesses wanting to sell to into the Eurozone would still have to comply with reams and reams of EU legislation to allow them to do this so where is the benefit for exporters?
Farage has, very craftily, gotten people behind UKIP by the very careful use of language which portrays him as a "one of us" type of figure however, it should be remembered that he is a privately educated, very wealthy, former banker, former tory so isn't really all that different from Cameron, Osborne, Johnson et al. He is as much a part of the "political class" and the "self appointed elite" he often professes to despise.
UKIP MEPs have a disgraceful attendance and voting record yet are happy to shove their noses in the EU trough while doing nothing to represent the people who put them there.

 

[Besoeker]

Anyone know what all this money is buying for us?

 

[Guest111]

No way,in fact we should stop giving any money to any foreign country,even those to whom we give money for so called humanitarian aid,the governments of many of these so called destitue countries have loads of cash but choose not to spend it on their own people.If we stopped all financial aid and the vast amounts we give to the EU for just a year it would be a huge step towards sorting out our own problems.In the words of the late great Frankie Howerd nay ,nay and thrice nay.

 

[Guest77]

Just on news Cameron has stood his ground and says he refuses to pay ....

Well I will be suprised if true, but happy as well.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Anyone know what all this money is buying for us?

I was wondering about that as well.
This may shed some light on the matter... 130 Billion Euros!!!!!!
(a few years old)

EU budget: how much does each country pay and where does it get spent? | News | theguardian.com

 

[Octopus]

As usual the UK will stand alone and "voice their concerns" whilst all the "takers" will say what bad "europeans" we are.

The Dutch are in the same boat as us, anyone know what they are saying??