Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:15 pm
BlueGog wrote:pembroke allan wrote:troobloo3339 wrote:pembroke allan wrote:The good news of a no deal Brexit? duty free will be returning in EU airports so cheap booze ect ect
No deal means a lot more good news than just that
Taking back our borders
Taking back our judicial services
Taking back our fishing borders
Controling our trade deals
£250 million saving a week on eu membership
I can go on but im sure youve beard it all before
Yes but remainers dont believe it?
Just as a matter of interest this chart shows you exactly the uk budget and the % spent on education, defence etc. In the grand scheme of things, I'm sure you'll agree the contribution sent to the EU doesn't look enormous does it???
Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:44 pm
moonboots wrote:Tony Blue Williams wrote:Tbailey wrote:
Saving 250 million a week?! are you sure you are talking about Wales here? England may benefit from this but considering Wales is a net beneficiary from the EU you couldn't be further away from the truth.
Wales receives a whopping £350m per year in funding from the EU (although that is not a net figure). Sounds like a lot of money until you realise that Wales receives £16 BILLION form Westminster in the form of direct grants and partial tax raised in Wales.
The EU contribution amounts to 0.3% of the money the Welsh Government has available has to spend. The UK would save at least £12 billion per year on leaving the EU and if that money was reinvested into the NHS the Welsh Government would receive nearly an extra £1 Billion in funding, nearly 3 times what the generous EU give us now.
TBH EU funding in Wales is a bigger exaggeration than anything Boris could put on the side of a bus!
Are you saying that £350m is 0.3% of £16billion?
Also, are you suggesting that if the British state will be £12 billion better off outside of Europe they would give Wales £1 billion. I stand to be corrected on the first point(too many zeros for me to work out). However I'm pretty sure Wales wouldn't get £1 billion....more like £600m based on population I believe.