TWO EYED WARRIOR wrote:
It isnt an exhaustive list by any means but these are going to be key subjects for Business and the general public on how it would affect people every day.
Appreciate that studies etc may have not been done due to the uncertain nature of an exit from the EU but surely someone will have done something and have a credible information to back up there findings and is an independent reliable source.
Apparently not. Despite years if not decades of opposition tio the EU no one leading the Brexit case has even ventured to think about what would come next if we left the EU.
"It'll be alright on the night" is about as good as it gets and when "Remain" publishes some data from the treasury, IMF, LSE, IFS and the rest there is no rebuff except "scaremongering".
That is not a way to persuade intelligent people to vote to leave.
As it stands financial information seems to back up an exit as the savings would be astronomical however my concern is that is short term and money saved would need to be spent protecting our selves and i could only see this as an opportunistic way for government to jack up taxes
Where do you get the idea the saving would be astronomical from?
You think managing trade agreements and so on which would have to do outside the EU is free?
The EU budget is 1% of the total Gross National Income (GNI) of the EU as whole. So in theory a country's contribution to this is 1% of its own GNI except for the UK it is lower because we get a rebate. For the UK it is 0.65%. Less than another other EU country as a portion of GNI.
After the rebate and other inflows
back from the EU our net contribution averages around £8bn a year. To put that in perspective the government spent £734bn on public spending alone in 2014.
The debate isn't helped by "Vote Leave" basically
lying about the figures.
You may have seen their bus saying how much we contribute to the EU is £340m painted down the side saying we could better spend it on the NHS.
Apart from the fact it is disingenuous claptrap to suggest any government would spend any money saved on the NHS alone, that figure comes from assuming a gross contribution of £19.1bn and
NO rebate and
NO inflows back into the UK.
Now you could argue even with the rebate and inflows it is too much money. I myself would disagree because I think we get good value for our 0.65% contribution despite the EU's flaws but the point is why on earth are "Vote Leave" simply lying about this and misleading people?
These are not speculative figures as to what might happen if we leave but actually what we do in fact pay
and they are lying about it.
A while back The Times published an article saying how much we contributed to the EU over the years in total and over inflated it by 29%. Yes, they over egged the figure by TWENTY-NINE PERCENT.
Vote Leave is forever rubbishing figures produced be the Treasury, LSE, IMF, IFS, ONS and God knows who else as "project fear" never coming up with their own alternative costings, but yet they have got a ruddy big red bus with a barefaced lie plastered down the side of it.
If you are interesting in the EU budget and our contribution to it you might read this (it is not that long):
EU budget Fact and Fiction
and this:
Guide to EU budget
