"vidic blood & sand, post: 20826647, member: 80446"]This might be a valid point if the UK had been handed a proper tab with a breakdown of the bill, but it hasn't. The figure has been made up, and we're just expected to pay it. So you analogy works against you.
Not to mention the fact that we have been investment partners in all the EU has done, like helping to fund it's spectacular buildings etc. Where's our settlement in all this?[/QUOTE
It should be quite simple, shouldn't it ?
All the UK needs to do is say to the EU -
' OK...Show us where it says in the rules that anyone leaving the EU has to pay to leave, and would it be the case that if, say, Poland or Bulgaria decided to leave, they'd still get their € 40 billion each year ( or wharever amount it is it is ) of subsidies for the next few years after they've left ? '
Then the UK should politely ask for a breakdown of the bill that the EU wants the UK to settle.
Nothing wrong with that approach....Well, not as far as I can see