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The IFS report you linked to starts off: "Total spending by the EU in 2014 across all 28 member states was €142 billion, or just over 1% of the...
I (along with many millions of other citizens) have voted in eight democratic elections since 1979 for the European Parliament. Sometimes the side...
Coming out with a load of tendentious waffle is easy. Let's nail it down to some real life figures instead. The total annual GDP of the 28 EU...
There have been nationwide democratic votes every five years since 1979, so eight democratic elections so far, to the European Parliament. All...
That is not true. There is no proposal to increase contributions above the 1% which has applied for many years.
Indeed, that's part of the story. But you should realise that it is not possible for every trading nation to have a trade surplus. Over the whole...
Up to a point. Total funds passing through EU institutions have always been capped at 1% of GDP. Which means, for the mathematically challenged,...
If you pay money into a bank account, do you think it just sits there doing nothing? Really? Has it not occurred to you that the bank immediately...
Everybody benefits from having money circulating around the economy, including poor people. If there is a reduction in the velocity of...
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24494/lot/371/ Judging by the photos, it is the genuine article. But £106K is a lot to pay for a pile of scrap...
What do these figures of 27% and 70% relate to? What are you talking about?
So we are moving on from the UK government deficit, which is not very significant, to the current account ("balance of payments") position of the...
So you define annual spending of £802 Billion as "broke", do you. What about if it was £850 Billion? Or £900 Billion? At what level would it stop...
So those people who create "actual wealth" often want to deposit it in a bank, or an insurance policy, or a pension fund. And those banks,...
I wonder what you could possibly mean by "... the country is broke"? The United Kingdom has a total GDP per year of about $2.565 Trillion. This...
Not sure where you get that from @johnv . Let's try some real figures shall we. UK government expenditure in the current year is around £809...
Only hypothetically. I got my money's worth out of that bike several times over, and still sold it for more than I paid for it so I have no...
Yeah, tell me about it.
I've just received a response from Sachse, well over a month after my enquiries and still pretty uniniformative. Running very well with points.
I agree about Steve Turner. Excellent work. And Sussex to Wiltshire is surely not all that far to drive. If you spoke to Steve personally and let...