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Those EU Dictators Just Get Worse 😤

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2017 · News & Politics

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The latest claim on the UK purse now comes from Xavier Bettel, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, who wants us to hand over up to £54 billion as part of the so-called Brexit divorce agreement.

Well, they’re all queueing up now aren’t they, with the PM of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, not only joining the demand that the UK hand over in excess of £50 billion, but also comparing this situation to Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s battles to get a rebate from the EU and also quoting her by saying ‘we want our money back’. He also said that we should either pay up or not leave the EU.

Now, his country is a net contributor to the EU coffers and gives about the same percentage of gross national income that the UK does, although the actual numbers are very different in that the UK gives hugely more.

That means that without the UK putting its money into that bottomless pit, Luxembourg's contributions will have to rise substantially, no wonder he’s so keen for us to keep filling the EU treasure chest.

But further, its not ‘their’ money, it’s our money and when we leave the EU we will not be able to take the so-called future ‘benefits’ of membership so should pay nothing towards that future. We are not here to fund the EU’s political dreams, we are here to fund our own.

The only concession I would make, would be to take the liability of future EU pension payments for UK people into the Treasury.

The rest is then up to the EU. If they have grand plans then they can fund them themselves or reduce their ambitions accordingly.

As far as I am concerned, the UK paying a vast ‘divorce settlement’ would be an up-front lump sum payment for either a tariff to get into the single market or for ongoing EU commitments that should cease the day we leave, or a combination of both. This is unacceptable and should be rejected out of hand by our UK negotiators.

But the UK cause is not being helped by the childish interventions of Remainers like Philip Hammond sticking their unwanted oars in while Parliament is in recess and our PM is on holiday.

The UK is leaving the EU and we need to get the best deal we can, but it seems that there are many within our corridors of power who are intent on making sure that Brexit fails at the first hurdle and do not care how much damage they do to the country and its people while playing their futile pro-EU politics.

These Remainers are intentionally inserting as much uncertainty into the negotiations as they can. They are continually manoeuvring in the vain hope that they can reverse the result of the referendum. The Remainers are the ones who could potentially harm the nation.

But once it has shaken itself free from the shackles of Brussels, the UK will go from strength to strength and those that that misspent all their efforts on getting in the way will be remembered.

Now, what do you think of this intervention by the PM of Luxembourg?

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