Britain’s annual bill for being in EU hits record £19.2 BILLION
Classic reactionary stuff on our relationship with the EU from the Mail in this article. It does however make me reflect on what rural and farming policy might have looked like should it have had a share of our net contribution of over £80 billion over the last 33 years. Or is that far too short sighted?
And after taking into account what the country gets back in subsidies for forming and regional development projects, Britain paid £8.4billion more than it received last year compared to £7.3 billion in 2010 – an increase of £1.1 billion.
In total since 1979, Britain has paid in about £228 billion and has received back in benefits just £143 billion.
After Angela Merkel’s Germany, Britain is the second highest contributor of the 27 EU members