Poll: The EU Referendum: How Will You Vote? (June Poll)
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You really do not get it.
The £350 million figure is a complete and utter fabrication.
Because of the rebate (and this where the confusion lies as frankly it is what we call a discount) that is NOT what we currently pay and so there is no way we can suddenly have that amount to spend.
Worse is if we leave forget the scaremongering we will stay have to pay the EU to trade with them !
Maybe we will not have to pay as much but it will not be free.
Straight into Schengen, the Euro, no rebate...
I think few can argue with Cameron when he said out really is out, forever (unless something really dramatically changes). This isn't a "let's see what we can do out of the EU, safe in the knowledge we can rejoin on the same (or better) terms than before" situation.
The EU can't stop all, or even most of our immigration. Miss than half come from outside the EU.
In or out, it ain't stopping.
Ok,
In a per week way even though that's not how it works, but for impact that's how its been broken down.
we send 350m to the EU
They send us back 200m, which the EU spends on stuff in our country...farmers etc
the other 150m is the fee for being a member of the EU
So, if we leave
We would be 150m Better off outright i.e no fee, but as we never send anything we can spend the whole 350m on what we want, now some of that maybe the same as the EU spend i.e farmers but some of it could be used for the NHS for example.
The issue everyone is having is that it got broken down into weekly for impact but that is not how it works,
Total reform is what follows. Leave and Cameron and Osbourne are out of jobs and we get someone more willing to put in to action the things we need.
Cameron would not answer why he has not dealt with the immigration from outside the EU when questioned on Question time. he whittered on with the same rhetoric about it being hard and out of our control and difficult to manage.
Then David Dimbleby turned around and told him that controling immigration from outside the EU is fully within our control and Cameron had nothing to come back with.
The problem is not just the EU, it is people like Cameron who gain from being in the EU. They cause the issues for the majority of people yet never have to deal with the problems in their daily lives themselves.
You're so close...
The rebate never leaves Britain. We can spend it on whatever the hell we want. So we send somewhere in the region of £250m a week to the EU. Of that, some of that comes back, and that's the money that comes with strings attached.
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I haven't tried to shout you down by the way, you have your opinion and I respect that, I just can't understand how an opinion can be formed on incorrect information and assumptions thats all.
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After watching this...I think my mind has been made up.
Christ on a bike... we do not send £350m to the EU.
At any point.
Ever.
The rebate (read, "discount") is applied then we pay our dues, then some of what's left is spent in the UK.
What reform? We voted for Dave. Should he step down, we will vote in the same policies. This was already the nation's choice.
Sounded a bit nervous but got much louder cheers.
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