It's likely that the cost of EU membership for the UK will rise with the accession of a number of poor Eastern states all of which will qualify for and expect EU handouts. Together with further bailouts of the Greek economy and possibly Italy and portugal. The UK will be unable to veto or evade these payments as the EU meisters will just find another way to make us pay that cannot be vetoed. Just look how Dave said we'd never pay that £1.8bn in the Autumn but we paid it anyway.
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The European commission has defied George Osborne, the UK chancellor, by formally proposing an emergency loan for Greece through an EU-wide bailout fund using up to £850m of British contributions.
The proposed use of the European Financial Stability Mechanism fund is a blow to the UK, because David Cameron thought he had secured in 2010 a “black and white” British opt-out from participating in any further bailouts for eurozone countries.
In the 2015 Conservative manifesto, the prime minister claimed: “We took Britain out of eurozone bailouts – the first ever return of powers from Brussels.”
However, with Greece needing an emergency cash lifeline of €7bn by Monday, the European commission has concluded this is the best way of avoiding a catastrophic banking collapse in the country.
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Osborne claimed then we're indemnified against further bailouts but I would't believe that. He would only have been given those assurances if the EU knows another way of getting the milchcow to pay up.
Remain and it's pretty certain that the rebate, such as it is after TB gave much of it away in his ambition to get the EU presidency, will go as well. The EU has intimated as much.
At this point in time we are masters of our own destiny, such an opportunity will not come again for a long time.
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