EU Contributions

[youngmafbog]

New figures reveal that Britain will have to pay �2.3 Billion more to the EU next year. The hike was of course triggered by the grinning used car salesman Blair when he gave back the hard won rebate Maggie won us.

This means every household in the UK has to cough up �257 to effectivley sponser Blairs presidency campaign.

Will people ever begin to understand how much Noo Labour have sold us down the Swanee ?

[Gromit]

We joined 36 years ago. Get over it please.

[Julnar]

Why does everyone blame Labour when it comes to problems with the European Union. Maggie Thatcher talked a good anti EU policy, while signing treaties that gave greater and greater control to a more centralised EU. She was a hypocrite. Heath took us in initially and New Labour just climbed onto the same political bandwagon.

[R1Geezer]

Gromit, we joined the Common market, not the United states of Europe. Heath was treasonous in hiding his true intent and lying to the people.

[Gromit]

R1Geezer

Every British Government since 1973, including the 18 years of Tory rule were involved in the process of progressing the European community.

All organisations develop, they do not remain the same as the day they came into being. After the referendum in 1975 when the people voted to stay in, it is rightly down to the elected Government of the day to negotiate the next steps on our behalf.

[jake-the-peg]

Get over it.

The EU is very much in the interest of people in this country but there's so much parochial small mindedness they can't see it.

Mind you as a French friend of mine said

"It's not surprising the British don't like European Union - they can't even keep their own country unified!"

Take a bigger view and embrace the mainland

[rov1200]

Now that the US is to take retaliation over the Lockerbie affair regarding our exports makes you glad we can devote more of our time to Europe. We exported 64% of our goods to the EU last year, we'd better stick with it.