Originally Posted by Chris

Not really ... Thanks to Tony Blair giving away a chunk of our rebate in an attempt to crawl up French bottoms, our contribution was always going to go up, whatever today's deal was. But thanks to the overall cut that has been agreed, our contribution will go up by a lot less than it otherwise would have.

Besides, I have read at least one pundit pointing out today that because the figures are worked out at 2013 prices but govern all spending from 2015-2020, with inflation factored in we could still find that the amount we have paid in has actually fallen. We won't be able to say that for certain until 2020 though.