General Discussion
@Dil the EU funding has to be agreed by ALL member states after being discussed by the EU council and EU parliament. Some countries pay in more and receive less in funding based on a number of factors. The UK is the 4th biggest contributor to the EU budget. Do you know why? Because we have 4th biggest GNI of the EU countries. Germany pays almost double what we do, France 2nd pay over 7% more than ...
To be honest the Leave campaign didn't overspend by that much and I don't believe that overspend had anything to do with the way the referendum went. £9 million on a leaflet that was a pretty awful promotion for remaining was a waste of money. Both amounts are a pittance compared with how much the Brexit process has cost so far! What did make a difference because it came up in discussions ...
I love how the Remoaners accuse the Leave campaign of overspending and all other kinds of skullduggery, but conveniently forget the £9 million that Cameron spent on sending a leaflet to every home in the country imploring us to vote remain, and by some shenanigans he managed to avoid the spending limits imposed on the Remain campaign. Don't lecture me about fair rules, Remoaners make me vomit.
Just to give a bit of substance to an earlier comment which for me is a real concern regarding being in the EU and not on a level playing field. The funding received in the UK for joint projects with other EU members does not end up with everyone getting an equal share of the pie. For example you have a french citizen and a british citizen both working on the same project both spending a day out ...
If you sack the politicians who want a peoples vote or want to remain then surely all those that lied and colluded with cambridge analytica and their satellite companies and overspent by more than 1/2 million and blatantly lied should be sacked, tried for fraud and the referendum deemed undemocratic. Therefore the only fair and democratic thing to do is re-run the referendum as a binding vote ...
" Surely the withdraw from E.U. is more important than someones maternity leave." First, that was one example picked out by burneside from a very small list of benefits of being in the EU that responded to. It isn't a case of one or the other. You committed both the strawman and false dichotomy logical fallacies in one! Second, we were told nothing would change but now you are happy ...
Surely the withdraw from E.U. is more important than someones maternity leave.Still say we won't leave the E,U,And the odds are or were 4.15387486828e34 - 1 which I stand to be corrected is 32to the power of 32 or no chance We must sack all the politicians who have overruled or are voting against the referendum vote of the people.
The EU law is a protection, it is a minimum. In the 80s maternity leave was based per company and based on length of service. In 1988 a European Commission report demonstrated the extent to which Britain lagged behind its contemporaries in employment law. The only state not to provide full statutory maternity leave, Britain had blocked the adoption of a draft directive setting out minimum ...
Regarding the so-called benefits of EU membership. UK maternity leave = 52 weeks (of which 40 can be shared with partner) EU maternity leave = 14 weeks The UK also had workplace equality laws long before we joined the EEC/EU, it's a common lie that we are reliant on the EU for these rights.
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