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Vote Leave’s newsletter today (and most days) says, ‘ We send £350 million a week to the EU – enough to build a new hospital every week’, and the claim features in the campaign’s election video , released online. However, despite their making this central to their case for Brexit, it’s not actually true. The £350 million figure is based on an annual figure of £18 billion paid by the UK ...
@GT - Yes, hasn't the pound been falling because the market is getting wobbly about there being a Brexit vote?
@FB: So.........if we vote out does that mean No more illegal immigrants? No more single parents? No more people (of whatever age) having blue badges when they shouldn't? No more politicians who may indulge in 'creative accounting'? Really?
According to OBR forecasts , in the next five years the UK’s average net contribution will be around £9.6 billion per year while the average annual rebate should be around £5 billion. To get a sense of the magnitude of those numbers we can say that in 2014-15 UK public spending was £735 billion . The total EU public expenditure in the same year was around £118 billion meaning that the ...
NATO includes the US and Canada. It is a military organisation The EU has European* countries only. It is more of a economic and political organisation. * cue postings about Turkey.
I thought the reason the EU (as it is now) originally come into being was to prevent a repeat of European countries going to war with each other.
And on the question of 'all these immigrants taking our jobs". Some points: 1. So, immigrants are working then. So not on the dole then. 2. Paying taxes as well, thereby contributing to the cost of public services 3. And..... if there are jobs, which immigrants are doing, why aren't the indigenous Brits doing these jobs? On the tv the other day I saw a young man, I'll put him in his ...
On the issue of immigration. Just supposing we Vote to Leave. Will there be barbed wire all along the border and passport control check points between Northern Ireland and the Republic? I mean, we couldn't have an open land border could we otherwise we would leave ourselves wide open (literally) to illegal immigrants to the UK accessing the UK via the ROI.
Well, 'the public' will need someone to look at whether a legal challenge is feasible or not. You seem to be leading on this at the moment BarbaraW.........
UPDATE ON THE DAWLISH LINK ROAD CAMPAIGN On Friday 27th May 2016, Dawlish town councillors were invited to attend a presentation from the Teignbridge District Council planning department: Simon Thornley, Alex Lessware, Phil Shears, and team. They explained the options for accelerating the building of the Link Road, that we are demanding, that they had explored. Three Dawlish town ...
