Where is the UK headed?

[driveace]

My pension is £104 per week ,my partners £52 ,so a total of £156
Luckily I did work until I was 73 ,and have provided for my later life ,but £156 is not going to get me many extras !

[Brown, Jon Brow]

My pension is £104 per week ,my partners £52 ,so a total of £156
Luckily I did work until I was 73 ,and have provided for my later life ,but £156 is not going to get me many extras !

Do you own your own house?

[driveace]

Yes ,and not had a mortgage since 1985 ! As I planned ahead .In life you plan your luck ,your not lucky unless you win the pools or the lottery!
I feel we can be stronger and better out of the EU ,but you don't ! We are all entitled to our opinion,but I feel the majority also feel the same way .How can ONE cap fit all the same people ?
Every country relies on different things to survive Germany has the car industry,France the farming .What does Eire,Greece,and Portugal have ?

[Mark]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29754168 this is not a good time for the EU to be asking for £2bn.

[Starter]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29754168 this is not a good time for the EU to be asking for £2bn.

That'll pretty much take anyone off the fence who was undecided on the subject before.

[Mark]

That'll pretty much take anyone off the fence who was undecided on the subject before.

I've always been pro-EU and that even makes me go 'WTF, hang on a minute!'

[odykas]

So Cameron vows not to pay the bill?

In June he warned that Britain could leave EU in case Juncker was elected.
I'm still waiting to see his response given that Juncker is about to take the office.

[MrJan]

I've always been pro-EU and that even makes me go 'WTF, hang on a minute!'

Yep. When I heard about it my first impression was that we just refuse to pay it...which is probably what any other country would do. I'm also not quite sure why Germany get a hand out, when they've been held up as being a real example to the rest of us during the downturn over the last 6 years or so.

[driveace]

If ever there was a reason to leave this GermanFranco club ,this is it ! Not happy. With 55 million a day ,now the blood suckers want more
Somebody with more IT knowledge than me please set up a voting thing on here and let's see how everybody votes

[Brown, Jon Brow]

I think we should be careful not to be too reactionary regarding this. £1.7 billion may sound like a huge figure but if you take into account the decade or so we've been apparently underpaying for, it amounts to a rounding error of about 0.1%.

It should have little or no effect on the economic arguments that overwhelmingly favour us staying in the EU.

However, the whole thing has been badly handled by the UK government and the EU. Some of the people inside the Treasury will have known about this for months or longer, so it shouldn't have been allowed to come as a surprise. And the EU seems to be completely oblivious to the political hot potato that it is at the minute in the UK. Why announce it now when we have a bye-election in a few week where one of the front-running parties is anti-EU?