Originally Posted by heero_yuy

The two eds certainly take the prize for hypocracy as it was their party that gave away most of our rebate to try and buy TB the EU presidency. (He's still angling for that even now)

It's all pie in the sky anyway. The only way we'll get a cut in our contribution to the EU is to get out.

Mark my words: Cameron will go to Brussells, get royally stitched up and come back claiming he has "The best deal for UK taxpayers" and we ONLY have to pay X% above inflation for the next trillion years.

The real way to play our winning hand, being a major paymaster of the EU, is simply to say that we'll stop writing the EU ANY cheques until a substantial cut is decided, leave them to stew and come home. It's what the Iron Lady would have done.