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Originally Posted by Horizon

I'll come back to this later, but I should've said we used to pay less into the EU coffers than anyone else, that's before all the Eastern European countries joined the EU. The very same countries we wanted to join the EU in the first place.

Why I am taking a pro-European stance when we've just been landed a nasty bill, I've no idea. I'll slap myself and wake up soon.

This may help with the waking up.

The figures show the UK’s contribution to the EU was £2.7bn in 2008, rising to £3.8bn in 2009, £7.2bn in 2010, £7.5bn in 2011, £8.5bn in 2012 and £11.3bn in 2013.