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So in your view it is entirely reasonable and logical that when laws are created they remain cogent and lawful regardless of any environmental developments, whether social, political, economic or otherwise? This law was written in 1957..............a time when many people in this country...

I suspect old people from year dot have always lament the loss of places connected with their youth and the behaviour of other generations, however that should not be confused with the immeasurable change that now means London is ethnically 45% white British, that nearly a quarter of all births...

I am pretty sure we have always been a net contributor maybe save the initial join phase, as I think we were paying 19% of the contribution in late 70s. That was when the CAP was around 80% and shortly after Mrs T got the rebate. Whatever you say about the mess around the communication of...

To some extent I can agree with this, the freedom of movement arrangement was known, however how many nations were in the EEC then.......six? That is not the case now, yet the UK, not mention EU electorate, have never got a say on something as important as EU enlargement, or did we ever know...

You are on the money as far as Directives go……………….. http://ec.europa.eu/eu_law/introduction/what_directive_en.htm However these are not the only legislative instrument at the Commission’s disposal, as we also have regulations……………...

Exactly, and what's more do they understand that the EU got many of these executive powers in the Lisbon Treaty, which was a repackaged version of the treaty rejected in referenda in Holland and France. The same treaty Labour promised they would also put to the electorate in their 2005...

You could not be more wrong. EU Regulations go straight to the member state's statute book without any requirement to be approved by the members state's democratically elected representatives. As it states on the Commissions own website...

To be fair I think the vast majority of people possess exactly the same belief on opportunity and fairness for all regardless where they sit on the political spectrum. The question here, and particularly with regard to the EU is.........where are the limits of that ideology. Many people want...

I see..........how about the EU tightens its belt and reduces its budget. That after all is the medicine being prescribed in the EU, and particularly the EZ. Workers there are having their wages cut, and are being made redundant. How about the EU acts in solidarity with its citizens and...

Evidently not, and certainly not in comparison to 19 years of frail performance by that well known economic basket case that is Germany. And there is the point, once again, this demand is based on the UK's performance against our EU peers. That is not how you or anyone else in the UK is taxed...

Sure, but that wasn't the point you were making when you stated that you would expect to pay more tax if you earn more money........as if that was the basis (and therefore justification) for this demand. The EU budget is essentially fixed and therefore it will require paying regardless of how...

Ignoring the back dating to 1995 and estimation of growth on the back of the black economy (like drug dealing and prostitution), this analogy doesn't work does it? The EU funding budget is effectively fixed in advance, and all the member states have to generate the funding to meet the budget...

Would appear the Treasury knew about this last week, seems incredible that the story would break on the first day of a EU conference. It's either rank incompetence or something more politically Machiavellian.........

It's not based on a short term blip of growth this is a re calibration of growth and tax going back to 1995, and includes estimates of monies "generated" within member states black economies. This is closer to the HMRC sending you a pay demand because they changed the tax rules, then backdating...