Re: The EU Cannot Ever Be Trusted1
Originally Posted by
Zaphod
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Now I know you're having a laugh.
How much exactly will those nations contribute to EU coffers?
Well it get anywhere near the £12 billion-odd per year the UK has been paying?
Whoever told you that is important? You contribution amounted to 12,000 mln/ 68 mln inhabitants = approx. 176 per inhabitant. For the EU (with 445 mln inhabitants) your contribution is 27 € / inhabitant. In other words, the UK contributed peanuts.
However, the EU is intended to keep states from armed war by having them trading. Which is sort of a war, in its own way.
When referring to the UK trade deficit, you are in fact saying you lost that trade war big time