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Theresa May's government attempts to leverage the UK's power over Europe to get the best possible deal.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 11 Apr 2017, 14:49,
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If anyone has shot themselves in the foot it's the EU.
How are they going to plug the gap left when the second largest net contributor leaves? Over £12 billion a year. That's a lot of paperclips.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 11 Apr 2017, 15:19,
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I think your figure is gross not net.
You've based it on the 350 million a week claim, which was not technically untrue, but was misleading.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 11 Apr 2017, 15:27,
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and how have the EU "shot themselves in the foot" ?
Britain triggered article 50. If there was a dad whose son shit his pants you wouldn't tell him he'd shot himself in the foot, even if he was likely to get shit on him in trying to clean up the mess. It's not the dad's fault. It's going to be shitty all around because the son, little Brexit, is a dribbling gullible idiot who was told it would be a clever idea to shit his pants so he wouldn't have to go to school
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 11 Apr 2017, 16:25,
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What an extraordinarily apposite metaphor.
Doesn't really answer my question about how the EU will plug the funding gap though.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 11 Apr 2017, 16:35,
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no, I agree with you on this one. The EU will be a little worse off with the UK leaving
there really are no winners, just different scales of losers. It's going to be a huge pain in the arse for all involved, so integrated are the economies. I just didn't think the EU were to blame. If anything, they went out of their way before the vote give special concessions to the UK that they didn't offer to other members.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 12 Apr 2017, 10:19,
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Where are you getting £12bn from?
Is that with or without the rebate and indeed subsidies? That looks suspiciously like you've taken that number the fat trolls like Johnson spouted as true, when even Farage disavowed it.
"• €13.8bn is the total raised from the UK. This includes money raised in duties within the UK and passed on to the EU. The UK receives a 25% fee of €850.6m for this. Within that…
• €11.3bn is the UK's national contribution, which is largely based on the size of our economy. It also includes other adjustments and €2.5bn from VAT
• -€3.6bn in rebates negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, called the 'UK correction' in the official data. This is paid for by other EU member states. Mostly France, which pays €965.9bn towards our rebate"
So you're talking shit again.
edit: Also you'll note that euros still aren't quite the same as pounds, although the brexit vote has fucked our currency. Good job.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Wed 12 Apr 2017, 9:38,
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So based on your sums
How much money exactly is leaving our country to go to the EU? Because it still looks like several billion no matter how you cut it.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 12 Apr 2017, 9:51,
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Let's at least use the proper figures
Prufrock is a Boris Johnson sock-puppet account and thanks to him and his ilk travel will be now be a pain, we're going to have work opportunities across Europe reduced, our currency has suffered and we're going to have to pay sub-standard, lazy, thick British workers to do jobs that grateful Europeans would do twice as well for half the price.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Wed 12 Apr 2017, 11:02,
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Exports to the EU account for 12% of the value of the UK economy. Whereas our imports only account for 3-4% of the EU's. This is a very unbiased (for or against) breakdown of the figures: https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-eu-trade/
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