There is no justification what so ever for us to pay a bill to the EU upon our departure in 2019. The Government has agreed to pay for the financial commitments they have already signed up to, but to try and use Britain once again as a cash cow to bail out this troubled project is beyond a joke.
Nowhere in the Lisbon Treaty does it mention a financial settlement upon a nation’s departure from the Union. These sums seem to have been pulled out of thin air and now the EU are running with them as if a financial settlement is the status quo.
We have given the EU £185 billion in net contributions since we have been members and now the EU has £133 billion in assets across the globe. We could quite easily play them at their own game and demand a substantial share of those assets back.
The negotiations are well underway and for EU negotiators to try and damage the upcoming dialogue by making silly demands just shows how worried the EU are about losing the funding the UK currently provides. When we leave in 2019 all remaining members of the European Union will have to fill the gap Britain has left. There are barely any nations in the EU who are net contributors, this will have to change. This will aggravate some of the more Eurosceptic nations in Eastern Europe who are already frustrated with the direction in which the EU is taking. Hopefully Britain’s withdrawal will finally make those in the EU realise that there needs to be genuine reform in order for them to survive. The world is changing and their outdated, autocratic organisation must adapt of die.
The British people will not be bullied and intimidated by anyone, it’s about time the Liberal Democrats and Labour started to stand up for Britain alongside the Conservative Party and tell the European Union their demands have no place in reality.
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