Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Helpfully, our friends in the EU have just published:-
Infographics - EU budget explained: expenditure and contribution by member state
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20141202IFG82334/eu-budget-explained-expenditure-and-contribution-by-member-state
Here's the 'infographic' showing the UK's contribution:-
Amazingly if you divide the total by 52 you get, erm, roughly €350m a week (almost the sort of figure you could stick on the side of a bus?)
Oh, and we also passed over 75% of €4.27bn ( €3.2bn) in tariffs for goods coming in through the UK.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
And what is it that our EU friends want from us now, 100 billion euros?
Perhaps they think that they are still dealing with Cameron who rolled over to their demands at every given opportunity and they can offer us a derisory deal similar to that offered to Dave prior to the referendum?
It's time we told this dictatorship to do one or get real.
Another viewpoint............
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- Location: Dover
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The Customs duty (tariffs) is handed over because it's not revenue but levies designed to protect producers within the customs union; a proportion is retained to cover the cost of collection by HMRC. I say 'the customs union' because it's not the same as the one between the EU and Turkey.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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At my time of life do I care, I live by the very old saying,"IF YOU HAVE GOT NOTHING THEY CANNOT HAVE ANYTHING,"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Our Brexit negotiators said originally that we did not have to pay anything upon leaving, now they are haggling over how much.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39789903Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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It was obvious from the start it would cost us to get out of their cosy little club, the big debate has always been how much they would fine us for our great escape.
The extortionate amount being spoken of is to put the breaks on other countries following us and wanting to leave, as I have said before they need our stable economy. I am sure those countries that export to us will want to continue so they are the ones we should be lobbying.
As an example look at the fruit and veg we buy from Spain we could easily go without any of their produce. It would simply mean either we grow it which would benefit our farmers, we go back to seasonal foods, or supermarkets look elsewhere.
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Brian Dixon
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planet thanet have acers of polly tunnels that grow salad veg all year round.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I have absolutely no confidence in our politicians to protect British interests, their record says it all. My prediction is that the demand will go to 120 billion, our lot will say 60 billion which will be accepted as that is what the EU were looking for in the first place. Mrs May thinks it is a good thing to be "difficult" but clever would be much more useful.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon wrote:planet thanet have acers of polly tunnels that grow salad veg all year round.
Exactly Brian so why the hell do we keep on seeing all the Spanish stuff, I even saw Kale the other day surely we grow that here.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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yes jan tons of the stuf
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This article is not very clear as it implies that our citizens living in the EU are guaranteed full rights of residency then later states the usual mantra that we must give guarantees to EU citizens living here including undocumented ones before any negotiations take place.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-brexit-citizens-amnesty-three-million-european-uk-no-proof-of-residency-theresa-may-latest-a7721201.htmlhoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Many traditional Labour voters are switching to the Tories because they trust the Prime Minister and her commitment to leaving the EU, quite extraordinary.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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We shall soon know who a cynical French public have chosen to be their President, either way it will be bad news for us. Macron is a committed Europhile who thinks we should be punished severely for having the temerity to talk back to the bureaucrats. Should Le Pen win the EU high and mighty will be desperate to save their collapsing empire making any negotiations even more fraught than before.
Still never mind.
Button- Location: Dover
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There see; had France entered into a union with the UK back in June 1940, we could've left the EU together. Not sure how one would pronounce this '..exit' though.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Mrs Merkel was heard to utter "that is the third time France has surrendered to us and this time we didn't even have to invade".
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Interesting idea from the new French President.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Maybe this is why Cruella rushed into an Election? Mind you the owner of the Indie was a great Remain proponent and even made Georgie the editor of his other journal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-families-poorer-bank-of-england-warning-food-prices-economy-uk-incomes-a7731336.htmlJan Higgins- Location: Dover
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The Bank of England always seem to be full of doom and gloom these days, much the same before the referendum if I recall correctly.
We all warned some prices would go up for a while so that is not exactly a surprise.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And there was me thinking the 'squeezed middle' was a technique for delaying orgasm.
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
