Cheshirechappie
Established Member
Rhossydd":16veoxzr said:Exactly, almost everyone in the UK gets some benefit from the EU! Living in Cornwall you should know that better than most. The EU pump billions into deprived rural areas in development aid.phil.p":16veoxzr said:every single one of them belonged to an organisation or worked for company that was known to get money (in some cases a lot of money) from the EU.
Where does the EU get it's money from?
There's been a lot of huffing and puffing about the UK's contribution to the EU, but some sort of agreement seems to settling at about £18bn per annum contributions, of which about £9bn is either rebated or comes back in the form of various grants. Thus, the EU money going to Cornwall could be said to come from the UK Treasury via a rather tortuous route.
There are only three real contributors to the EU coffers - Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. Everybody else takes out rather than putting in - indeed, some do very well out of it - French agriculture, for example.