EU budget is nearly 150bn Euros per year

[DimPrawn]

So the EU is a trade zone.

Great, so why does it cost the members nearly €150,000,000,000 of members money every year?

Most of it goes on foreign "aid" and to French farmers if you look at how it's spent, the rest is simply "lost" in Brussels writing documents about Climate change effects on tree fungus and other "admin" costs.

A "free" trade club that costs 150bn per annum.

They must be pissing themselves laughing no one questions this and the sheeple go to work, pay their taxes, live in their little Barratt homes everyday.

Mind boggling.

[saptastic]

We give them billions.

They throw xx% back at us (not sure how much) - but tell us how it has to be spent (i.e. development grants).

The rest goes on massive bureaucracy and distributed who knows where.

Their accounts never get signed off.

What has this got to do with free trade?

[darmstadt]

We give them billions.

They throw xx% back at us (not sure how much) - but tell us how it has to be spent (i.e. development grants).

The rest goes on massive bureaucracy and distributed who knows where.

Their accounts never get signed off.

What has this got to do with free trade?

Provide us some figures, statistics and relevant data please to back up your statements or are you another Project FUD believer?

[DimPrawn]

Provide us some figures, statistics and relevant data please to back up your statements or are you another Project FUD believer?

The way you defend the EU at every point, I can only guess 0.00001% of that budget ends up in your pocket....

[darmstadt]

The way you defend the EU at every point, I can only guess 0.00001% of that budget ends up in your pocket....

More than that Some of us know how to use the EU, some of us don't

[PurpleGorilla]

More than that Some of us know how to use the EU, some of us don't

So that's why you like the EU.

So you can exploit it.

Nice.

[darmstadt]

So that's why you like the EU.

So you can exploit it.

Nice.

That's why I joined Ukip, to learn from the experts

[PurpleGorilla]

That's why I joined Ukip, to learn from the experts

They are late to the party.

Over £100m a year to move the parliament to Strasbourg and back.

Lol that gravy train has been rolling for years.

What a joke.

[saptastic]

Provide us some figures, statistics and relevant data please to back up your statements or are you another Project FUD believer?

Feel free to question my train of thought above.

To be honest I really want a politician to tell us positive facts rather than keep the status quo or we will have a recession. I am very open to be convinced. I am asking what all the massive EU spending and politics has to do with free trade (which is what most people want).

[PurpleGorilla]

Feel free to question my train of thought above.

To be honest I really want a politician to tell us positive facts rather than keep the status quo or we will have a recession. I am very open to be convinced. I am asking what all the massive EU spending and politics has to do with free trade (which is what most people want).

The EEC is dead. Long live the EU.