in 1629713 20171003 135736 "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
So we left the EEC when it became the EU? Or are you trying to make
some stupid point?

The point is we joined the EEC when there were significantly less
countires in the EEC to need funding.

No new country joined the EU without the UK's approval.

In fact the Eastern European countries were admitted at the UK's insistence.