Re: Trade with other nations
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We get a rebate on our contribution
We pay a gross figure of about 350 million a week but get a rebate of about 100 million a week - a net figure of about 13 billion a year.
We don't get any of that back as loan repayments ... it's what we give to the EU.
Hi
Your figures are at odds with those published in our Parliamentary Reports.
Your figure at £250 a week is very different to the £164 million a week in our accounts.
We do get cheap loans from the EU, we do very well out od them.
Our loans from the Strategic Investment lending is !0% of all such investment in the EU.
Amongst other things the EU are giving cheap loans to finance 3 new hospitals and part of Cross rail.
Our payments also allow us access to the Single Market for Services, something which disappears on Brexit as WTO does not cover services.
We are losing the Tax on these services, which are our main export to the EU.
Leaving the EU will produce no cost savings, contrary to what some promote.
If it was solely about money, we would not have left.
It is about far more than money, it is about self governance, no more integration and not letting Merkel unilaterally opening up the Borders to Economic Migrants and then insisting others take those she does not want.
It is about spending our money on our priorities, not the priorities of the EU.
I really do not give a damn about French farmers, I care about our own.