EU to charge Britain more money due to success of economy....

[KingstonSeagull]

We are experiencing a short blip of growth largely thanks to our government propping up an already over valued housing market. Meanwhile the Germans aren’t doing as well as the world is going through a slow down and there is less demand for their manufactured goods

Makes perfect senses that when economies growth you pay more, the Germans and French were paying more a couple of years back when they were growing.

Yet again our right wing increasingly euro-skeptic press are hyping things up and we’re increasingly looking like the idiot in the room

Go away Karl Marx

 

[El Presidente]

I think it's a disgrace. If I earned more money under this government I would expect to pay less tax, as Gideon rewards the rich and demonises the poor, so why should it be different in the EU?

 

[brighton fella]

EU officials say the calculation simply reflects the longstanding practice of adjusting contributions of countries according to their pace of growth. “Britain’s contribution reflects an increase in wealth, just as in Britain you pay more to the Inland Revenue if your earnings go up,” said Patrizio Fiorilli, a Commission spokesperson.

in other words you get punished for prospering and rewarded if your economies in a mess, f*cking great incentive that

have always said this lot are a load of wrongens, how much more damage do they need to inflict for the pro EU brigade to wake up

 

[wellquickwoody]

Seems the new commission which takes office on the 1st November can cancel this payment.

All a bit stage managed to deliver a 'win over Europe' for Cameron in a week or so

Diana was killed by MI5 don't ya know?

 

[jimhigham]

The Tories had been suggesting that they were confident of holding Rochester and Strood. That confidence has probably taken a knock in the light of this.

 

[larus]

What I don't get is why it's being re-based back to 1995. WTF! If this was a regular occurrence then no problem, but why now and why 1995?

The EU is corrupt and inefficient. We need more localised power in the regions and less dictatorial edicts from unelected, left-wing, statist zealots. This will help ukip at the expense of both labour and the Tories.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Answer to the immigration debacle....get a fleet of British Lorries,leave them at a French port overnight,don't check the lorries in the morning...just drive off...full of immigrants...and drop them off,say Strasbourg on the doorstep of the EUs other palace.
Give us control of our borders,fishing grounds etc. Plenty of countries thrive on being out of the EU. Out! Out! Out!
Nobody can,or tried to give a reason for being in this corrupt,undemocratic union.

 

[Brovion]

Quite right. Well said that man.

Is that the best you can do? Support a POV that's already been comprehensively trashed, not least by your opposite number on here, the EU thread heat-seeking missile that is cunning fergus.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I think it's a disgrace. If I earned more money under this government I would expect to pay less tax, as Gideon rewards the rich and demonises the poor, so why should it be different in the EU?

But at least Gideon tells you how much you will pay in advance.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Is that the best you can do? Support a POV that's already been comprehensively trashed, not least by your opposite number on here, the EU thread heat-seeking missile that is cunning fergus.

Yes, because I really cannot be arsed to argue this. Everyone knows my view, I do not need to reiterate it again and again and have the same arguments with the same people using the same reasoning and examples and I include myself. It's a Friday morning, and I have some nice bluesy music on, a nice coffee on the go and I have much better things to do today, including my laundry, quite frankly.

 

[Brovion]

Go away Karl Marx

He's not a Marxist, he's a right-of-centre social democrat like Herr Tubthumper.

Here is the Marxist view on the EU: http://marxistupdate.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/european-union-marxist-view.html

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'll be blowed if we are going to bail out the frogs and the bloody krouts!

Yeah, bloody krouts.

PS who are the krouts?

 

[Czechmate]

With Serbia , Albania and Ukraine wanting to join the EU in years to come then we will have to pay for their bad economies . Get out now !

Plus freedom of movement for these countries

 

[Notters]

Eh? Do you really think Britain's current growth is largely down to the 'Help to Buy' scheme? That is the single largest factor? It's not the EU-sceptics (plenty of whom come from the Left) who are the 'idiots in the room'.

That and quantitative easing.

 

[piersa]

I can see UKIP getting some power
and closing our borders

How many times!!! UKIP want controlled borders, not closed borders.

 

[brighton fella]

the EU will not back down over this, if Cameron believes he's in with a chance of negotiating a deal he's a bigger fool than I first anticipated. no f*cking chance

 

[Skylar]

With Serbia , Albania and Ukraine wanting to join the EU in years to come then we will have to pay for their bad economies . Get out now !

Plus freedom of movement for these countries

Not forgetting Turkey as well.

 

[The Fifth Column]

This is propaganda gold for UKIP who will seize on this with glee. In all fairness the UK has had significant rebates in the past whilst other nations have had to pay more so its swings and roundabouts however that will be all be immaterial once the national media see it as an opportunity to scream their anti Europe headlines. Dont get me wrong i fervently want out of Europe as soon as possible but it is a story being skewed by the media.

 

[Greyrun]

Best description of the EU"worlds biggest ponzi scheme"

 

[Return of the Rev]

Yeah, bloody krouts.

PS who are the krouts?

FEMALE FROGS?