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Default EU to flush your money down your toilet?

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:33:56 +0000, Roger Chapman
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On 30/10/2013 22:15, Java Jive wrote:

Harry, just for once, disengage bigotry, engage brain. There is no
evidence at all for this pathetic assertion. For example in 2007, the
only "basket case ex commie country" to receive more EU funding than
the UK was Poland; each of the rest received less than half of what we
did:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8036096.stm


Talk about being economical with the truth. JJ conveniently ignores that
part of the BBC report which shows the way in which the EU is funded.


I didn't ignore anything. That, not the one linked by you, happened
to be the page that come up in response to a search.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8036097.stm

'Spending' will take you to the report cited by JJ.

'Payments' 'Net contribution' (or net by population) shows that for
once Harry has a point although he ignores the fact that the biggest
pain in the wallet are not the East Europeans but Greece and Portugal
and also the biggest free loaders of all who are the Irish who have a
gdp per capita higher than that of the UK.


There is nothing in either page which supports his claim that:

We wouldn't have the expense of all this EU crap and basket case ex commie
countries to support

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