Next year our membership of the EU will apparently increase by 60% to £6.4 billion.
Apparently we 'should be sharing the burden of membership' with the new countries from Eastern Europe according to the Government.
Hopefully someone will do a cost benefit analysis of this. I for one increasingly wonder whether the cost is worth it. I'm sure there are many others who will be thinking the same this evening.
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According to http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk, total local and central government spending in 2009 is £638bn, putting this higher EU figure at broadly 1%.
Lets assume that we're a net contributor to the tune of 100% and get none of it back.
£164bn in local government, £110bn on pensions, £110bn on health care, £122bn on defence, education, and welfare.
The government's "credit card" has £794bn on it, up £181bn on last year's figure of £613bn. We spent £30bn, a little under 5%, paying the interest.
The £6.4bn is the Gross amount.The farm subsidies received back, plus infrastructure and dsignated area support halves that amount.
We waste more than the £3bn net cost on appalling Ministry of Defence project management according to the Select Committee
Rather than EU bashing, lets get our own Government Depts in order
The £6.3bn is the Gross cost
When the farm subsidies, infrastructure grants and special area support payments are deducted, the net payment is nearer £3bn
Our own Ministry of defence is currently wasting more than that, according to the Select Committee. so worry about sorting out UK profligacy before bashing the EU
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