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‼️The £90 Billion Brexit Bill‼️

3,452 views · Published 15 February 2018 · 7:09 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

There is talk that the true cost of the Brexit bill to the UK will be £90 billion - and that it's being hidden from the UK public.

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A story surfaced in the German newspaper Die Welt that the true extent of the Brexit bill will be £90 billion, with smug Eurocrats boasting that Theresa May and Michel Barnier had fooled the UK public with financial acrobatics to hide this true cost from them, making out it would be less than half this.

"UK negotiators were stunned after eurocrats briefed German media that the tab will actually reach £90 billion.

"Senior EU officials boasted that they managed to pull the wool over British taxpayers’ eyes with 'mathematical acrobatics'." Said the Sun.

The UK side though insists that the agreed figure of £35-£40 billion still stands.

Back in December the total UK commitments had been put at £90 billion and negotiations had taken that down to the £35-40 billion ball-park, but the EU is still refusing to either confirm or deny that figure.

Some are saying that this talk of doing the Brits over is really just designed to distract attention away from the EU's own internal budget debate on how they will fill the gap when the UK leave the bloc.

With Reuters reporting that the EU Budget Commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, wants a larger budget next time because of new commitments, such as the joint defence and border protection projects. And with the UK removing about £10 billion a year, this would mean other net contributors coughing up more and not all are happy about this.

And the Financial Times says that Jean-Claude Juncker has a plan to help fill this void by siphoning off a percentage of EU member states corporate tax receipts. So, I suppose member states will then have to increase their own domestic taxes to compensate - or do less. One suspects that'll go down like the proverbial lead balloon with ordinary EU citizens.

But getting back to the Brexit bill, the question I have is, if the figure we are paying really was £90 billion, surely it would have been gleefully leaked by now by those in our establishment intent on derailing the Brexit process, you know, like the Brexit forecasts?

Anyway, Boris Johnson’s speech yesterday has been greeted with approval by many on the Leave side.

The Brexiteer Tory MEP for South East England, Daniel Hannan, called Boris a 'Tigger among Eeyores', who was right to make the positive and uplifting vision of Brexit.

And Janet Daley, writing in the Telegraph, said that the foreign secretary was spot on in making a speech laying out his vision of our exit from the EU - and that any lack of detail was understandable given where we are at in the negotiating process.

What Boris offered, she said, was an idea of the philosophical foundations, the moral justification and the economic logic on which Brexit is based.

Then we have Rod Liddle in the Sun who said that, with all the toing and froing in the talks and the party splits etc one could be forgiven for doubting that Brexit would ever happen.

In an article headed “Brexit isn't about limping towards the exit - it's about marching through the door to freedom.” he said:

“But at last there’s a reason to be cheerful. Our Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has just made the best speech of his political career.”

And he finished with:

"In June 2016 the British people made a bold decision, and the right decision.

"Let’s hear the Government exult a little bit more and whine a little less."

‼️The £90 Billion Brexit Bill‼️

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