The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166861   Message #4024683
Posted By: Steve Shaw
19-Dec-19 - 05:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK General election December 12 2019
Subject: RE: BS: UK General election December 12 2019
"Control of our money..."

Do you actually know how much of our money is tied up with the EU, Al? Well, it's approximately one percent of our GDP. That's it. Yes we are net contributors, as we are one of the larger and wealthier members. But our poorer regions (Cornwall, where I live, for example) and our farmers, who benefit from large subsidies, get some of that money back. Once we leave, the farmers will no longer get that money and the country will be in danger of turning into a huge country park. The poorer regions will no longer get those grants. The benefit of being a net contributor is that it smooths the path for easy trade deals with EU countries via the goodwill that will now be lost, and we contribute to the stability and the maintenance of democracy in those countries, a massive benefit over half a century of the common market/ EC/EU. You've swallowed the Tory brexit bullshit hook, line and sinker, Al. And you'll realise it sooner rather than later.