Britains EU membership bill (direct payments) to RISE to £10.3bn per year

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-n...-to-pound103bn
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7150196.ece

Britain’s EU membership fee will soar to £10.3bn a year by 2014 according to a revised estimate from the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR). The hike is due to Tony Blair’s disastrous decision to give up part of Britain’s EU rebate in 2005 – a decision described by UKIP deputy leader Lord Monckton last week as a foolish attempt to secure the EU presidency.

The OBR – a new watchdog chaired by economist Sir Alan Budd – also revised upwards Britain’s contributions to the EU budget for 2009/10 to £8.3bn, from the previously estimated £7.6bn. Sarah Gaskall, from the Open Europe think tank, said: “It is now shockingly clear just how poor the deal Tony Blair negotiated in 2005 was for the UK.”

While we are being forced to cut back out own services that we pay for, the European Union just keeps spending and spending and spending - our money is going to an organisation whos audits have not been signed off in the past eleven years with suspected billions missing as the reason, an organisation which uses British taxpayer money to fund wasteful programmes and propaganda machines and more to the point; we are paying for things such as new roads in Romania, the Czech Republic and the disasterous CAP policy which hugely benefits France.

With all this in mind (not to mention the huge deficiet we face);

Do you think we should altogether halt our EU payments, not increase them or increase them?

Thoughts?

[Bun]

what's your point?

[-:Undertaker:-]

My point is that a) Tony Blair sold us out for his own personal gain & b) we are having to cut vital services such as the armed forces but the EU just keeps spending. I would have thought that blitheringly obvious really, or do you think the EU should spend more while countries across Europe such as the UK are having to cut back vital public services by a large margin thanks to the devastation left behind by failed left wing governments and a currency that is as much as a joke as the monopoly currency?

[FlyingJesus]

We can't afford to be doing this. If we sort ourselves out then I have no issue with what we spend elsewhere, but it makes no sense to send more money out of the country when we're struggling ourselves. For those who fancy being communist: if we're more stable then we are better equipped to help everyone else out and everyone wins that way.

[GommeInc]

We can't afford to be doing this. If we sort ourselves out then I have no issue with what we spend elsewhere, but it makes no sense to send more money out of the country when we're struggling ourselves. For those who fancy being communist: if we're more stable then we are better equipped to help everyone else out and everyone wins that way.

^ Same as Jesus. We shouldn't be sending money out of the country when we need it for ourselves. If we weren't in the pro-verbial toilet, then it would be okay to send this money out to be splashed around, but in the current climate it's dangerous and unnecessary. It's our money, we should spend it on ourselves. And as Jesus said again, we'd be more help if we were stable and have everything under control, at the moment the EU is the least of our worries :/

It's shocking the amount we send over to the EU already. The EU shouldn't be getting any extra money at the moment when it's member states need it more than some over-glorified organisation which doesn't disperse the money equally or provided any extra help, especially when the UK is one of the main countries :/ Hopefully Cameron sticks by his word, or we've somehow wasted our votes on a terrible government.

[Alkaz]

We shouldn't even be in the EU. Its just like Eurovision, we pay the most out of any country to be a part of it yet get the worst deal. I swear most countries see us as a meal ticket and when they've exhausted all of our services and resourves they will be the dominating powers as we wont have a leg to stand on. Ridiculous.

[Adamm]

We are a laughing stock.

[alexxxxx]

We shouldn't even be in the EU. Its just like Eurovision, we pay the most out of any country to be a part of it yet get the worst deal. I swear most countries see us as a meal ticket and when they've exhausted all of our services and resourves they will be the dominating powers as we wont have a leg to stand on. Ridiculous.

that's where youre wrong. in eurovision we get automatic qualification for the final.

not to mention eurovision pulls in more views than a drama in that timeslot for less money

[GommeInc]

that's where youre wrong. in eurovision we get automatic qualification for the final.

not to mention eurovision pulls in more views than a drama in that timeslot for less money

You kinda proved his point lol - we pay alot, but for what? We don't really get acknowledged for doing anything.

And dramas are at least a little bit easier to watch, not the carp they put in Eurovision (especially our dreadful entries). Carp I say, carp!

[dbgtz]

I wanna know where all of this goes to be quite frank. I actually do not see anything except a bunch of douchebags deciding rules for us, surely we couldn't just get the people we ALREADY pay to do that?
Oh but easier travel. Hmm is that worth £10.3bn? And to someone who doesn't go abroad it's pretty damn pointless.
And why should we have to pay for other peoples welfare? Sorry but it's true, you have to fight (not literally guns and crap) and work in this world in order to get somewhere, so what do we do? Give it to people who could make some effort and get money themselves.

Off topic sorta but how much do we pay atm and how much does Germany pay atm?

EDIT: Also what happens if we decrease/increase our payment?