UK told to pay £1.7bn extra to EU

[CheeseSlice]

We should just get the Bank of England to "Print" £2,000,000,000 and give it to the French.

Remind them what they lost when they gave away their currency.

why devalue our own currency ? get De La Rue to print the equivalent in Euros

[ZARDOZ]

The irony is the UK 'recovery' was largely created by another property bubble, not proper output. A similar bubble to the one which sank many of the EU countries who want our money.

[Zero Liability]

Vampires gotta feed...

[Churchill]

The irony is the UK 'recovery' was largely created by another property bubble, not proper output. A similar bubble to the one which sank many of the EU countries who want our money.

Well it certainly wasn't down to productivity judging by the amount of time you lot spend on here!

[Sysman]

Just listening to John Redwood on Radio 4 saying how unfair it is for a retrospective tax change to be forced into the UK Government, maybe we can come up with a pithy slogan for this, maybe No To Retrospective Tax or NTRT

Just like wot they do with "windfall taxes"?

Or IR35 if HMRC decide to deem you included.

[Bacchus]

The irony is the UK 'recovery' was largely created by another property bubble, not proper output. A similar bubble to the one which sank many of the EU countries who want our money.

Actually I think the irony is that HRH's lovely govt. is trying to dupe its people by including drugs and whoring to inflate the size of the economy (BBC linky), so the EU is saying great; bigger economy, bigger payment.

Fair enough really, if we want to remain in the EU, these are the rules.

[darmstadt]

Slightly off topic (as usual but at least no bottoms involved this time) , interesting article on German economy recently:

German model is ruinous for Germany, and deadly for Europe - Telegraph

Quite interesting article although I do have a couple of problems with it:

- its pretty factual although I did find 5 key points which were pretty much wrong so I have to take some of it with a pinch of salt
- some of it is nearly word for word from a similar article that I read about this

Remember that the Daily Telegraph no longer have any journalists

[NickFitz]

I realise it's hard to pay attention when you're screwing up your face and screaming "S'not fairrrrrr!" like a toddler having a tantrum, but those of you capable of reading sentences longer than a soundbite may be interested in this explanation of the facts of the matter: The Musings of @PMEblond: EU Budget

Or not; I know many on here aren't in the habit of letting facts get in the way of a good bluster

[darmstadt]

Or are Cameron and Gideon lying about the economy? I think its a bit much of the EU to do this, particularly at this time, but if the economy has improved to the extent that Cameron says it has, then this payment would not be too much of a problem. They have engineered a low pay economy in which too many people with jobs do not pay taxes and have to rely on benefits and that the slight improvement in the economy is not being felt by the likes of you, but is only felt by large multi million pound turnover companies who benefit from UK tax relief and contrived tax measures such as transfer pricing. These companies pay no or very little corporation tax to the treasury. This means the Treasury is facing a tax shortfall of at least a billion. to the EU, an economy isn't a success if the state isn't benefiting from it, maybe the EU are calling Cameron and Gideon's bluff?





(Apparently interest rates were meant to rise when unemployment fell below 7.2% but this din't happen because the Governor of the Bank of England knows that the unemployment figures are false, because he knows that people claiming JSA/ESA who are on workfare programmes are counted as employed when quite clearly they are not.)

[SantaClaus]

"UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the UK had been "hammered again" while Labour said it was imperative that the European Commission must reconsider the "backdated bill"."

"But the government source said: "It's not acceptable to just change the fees for previous years and demand them back at a moment's notice."

Oh the irony!