U K Must Pay E U Extra £1.7 Billion

[ChillDoubt]

Because our economy is growing faster than everyone else's:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4246269.ece

So Dave gives it 'one last go to get a good deal for Britain' and gets ambushed because we're doing better than France. You really couldn't make it up.
I wonder how many still supposedly want to stay in the EU, in reference sp's poll thread the other day.
Farage must be splitting his sides at the news that the EU are doing his work for him.

[Gromit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10861170/Drugs-and-prostitution-add-10bn-a-year-to-UK-economy.html

[jno]

aog, yes, as Gromit's link shows, this black economy stuff really does add up. Looks like our "working girls" are contributing a lot more to the economy than people are prepared to admit.

I'm not sure about the net effect of drug-dealing, though: the pushers may all have BMWs, but their clients may not be economically active at all.

[Gromit]

It is interesting that when the rule change was first reported, it was given the spin of a £10billion boost for George Osborne.

This AOG thread is a reminder.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1340242.html

For the Government to now claim it is a sudden change and the revised payment is a surprise is just poppycock

[dave50]

How can the UK be FORCED to pay this sum? Just refuse point blank, end of story?

[Ric.ror]

No lets pay it but take over the running of this whole lot of it
Why not as we seem to be the only ones funding it

[ToraToraTora]

I'd stop paying anything at all. Bleedin sh0wer!

[youngmafbog]

If only we had Maggie in No 10.

[jno]

did you read the story, ric.ror? The Germans have been paying so much they're getting a refund. The UK have been underpaying.

[VHG]

Maybe a solution to the EU AND Immigration problem is as follows.

If you take a lot of people from other EU countries (like UK does) you pay LESS to the EU.

If people leave your country (like say Poland) to go to other EU countries you pay MORE to the EU.

Seems fair to me.

[Zeuhl]

/If you take a lot of people from other EU countries (like UK does) you pay LESS to the EU./

I'm sure the Germans would love to receive their discount based on the massive numbers of eu migrants working in the German economy

[jno]

I can guess how Poland would feel about that - they lose people to Britain, iimpoverishing their own economy, so then the EU steps in to impoverish it even further by demanding more payments.

That'll teach countries to be poor!

[New Judge]

Well if they can't take a joke they shouldn't have joined.

[ToraToraTora]

were you born anti British jno or did you learn it?

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// aog, yes, as Gromit's link shows, this black economy stuff really does add up. Looks like our "working girls" are contributing a lot more to the economy than people are prepared to admit. ///

Yes about time we got our own 'work-shy' females off their couches and onto the streets.

/// I'm not sure about the net effect of drug-dealing, though: the pushers may all have BMWs, but their clients may not be economically active at all. ///

According to Gromit's link they are very active.

[Hypognosis]

Eject! Eject! Eject!

[anotheoldgit]

Cameron has announced that he will refuse to pay, oh this is really getting exciting, watch this space.

[anotheoldgit]

I wonder if the EU will send the bailiffs in, lock up the Crown Jewels, oh wait a mo they are locked up aren't they?

[Ken4155]

Big Dave says he's not going to pay. And he must have really, really meant it because he was banging his fist and going quite red in the face!

[Hypognosis]

It's long been joked that the EU is a club created so that Germany and France (ok, mainly France) can siphon money from the UK, because that's how much they hate us.

Now we have this (AOG posted it earlier but worth repeating).
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/24/article-2805663-2283666200000578-93_964x415.jpg

And remember: the TGV does not run on electricity, it runs on massive public subsidy. Count us out of chipping in for that, please.

[jourdain2]

I think we should exit the E.U. for many, many good reasons ..... but today I was moved to give a donation to a hard-up guy who was standing outside the supermarket with a notice. We struggle, by the way, now that we face big medical bills.

It's bad, in France. My hairdresser posted an open letter to M le President on her facebook page - it is a cry of despair from moderate people who now face losing their homes because they cannot pay all their bills and taxes. I wish that I were clever enough to know how to put the letter on here.