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Hypothetically If Britain Votes To Remain In Europe And At A Later Date France, Italy, And The Netherlands Later Voted To Come Out, What Would The Repercussions Be For Britain?
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Yes, what individual nations pay in (their “gross” contribution) is not at all useful. It is the net contributions (after they have benefitted from the munificence of the Euromaniacs in allowing them some of their own money back) that are appropriate.
Nobody asked the UK electorate whether they wanted to contribute to the improvement of Bulgaria’s airports or the upgrade of Poland’s rail network. But that’s effectively what they are doing (among many other things) with their net contributions. Even the money that is kindly returned to the UK has to be spent as directed. Essentially, it is just an extension of our Foreign Aid programme with a bit creamed off for the upkeep and welfare of distressed EU officials (10,000 of whom take home more than the UK’s Prime Minister).
If the UK votes to leave today I believe it will be the start of a domino effect across the continent. People are finally and belatedly wising up to the confidence trick that the European Project has become.
Nobody asked the UK electorate whether they wanted to contribute to the improvement of Bulgaria’s airports or the upgrade of Poland’s rail network. But that’s effectively what they are doing (among many other things) with their net contributions. Even the money that is kindly returned to the UK has to be spent as directed. Essentially, it is just an extension of our Foreign Aid programme with a bit creamed off for the upkeep and welfare of distressed EU officials (10,000 of whom take home more than the UK’s Prime Minister).
If the UK votes to leave today I believe it will be the start of a domino effect across the continent. People are finally and belatedly wising up to the confidence trick that the European Project has become.
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BYW, Islay, I forgot to add that the availability of French cheese and Dutch salami here in the UK are in no way dependent upon our or their membership of the EU. Incredible as it may seem to some, those products, along with everything else, were freely available throughout the UK (barring the war years) long before the EU existed.
I think there are going to be repercussion which ever way they vote swings.
If we leave, then an entire and unknown chapter opens for the UK, and hopefully the Leave campaign's leaders will be proved right in their analysis of the future.
What concerns me if we remain, is that the EU will know beyond doubt that the UK is a powerless minnow in its wake, which can be ignored or forced to suck the mop, probably both!
The lines were drawn when Call Me Dave popped over to 'negotiate' and got his bottom kicked - politicians never learn, that's why we keep getting into wars.
If we leave, then an entire and unknown chapter opens for the UK, and hopefully the Leave campaign's leaders will be proved right in their analysis of the future.
What concerns me if we remain, is that the EU will know beyond doubt that the UK is a powerless minnow in its wake, which can be ignored or forced to suck the mop, probably both!
The lines were drawn when Call Me Dave popped over to 'negotiate' and got his bottom kicked - politicians never learn, that's why we keep getting into wars.
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