Originally Posted by
Quarterpoundher
That's the short term view, we took from the EU for far longer then we gave, its swings and roundabouts and we are a matured EU state now and the EU pumped a lot of money in here when we were a basket case for decades and regardless of our current problems we have to pay whatever share we signed up for. I am sure we have gotten far more from the EU then we have paid in and as we mature we become net contributors just as other nations were to us, we can't stay as a handout nation forever and have to honour our commitments or the whole house of cards falls apart.
Maybe that house of cards deserves to collapse but at the moment its what has stopped this continent from the cycle of wars that it was locked into and that alone makes paying a few billion well worth it, cheap at 100 times the price and what goes around comes around and it might be us getting bailed out before long.