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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
The weekly amount sent to Brussels is always after the rebate. It's less than £250m and therefore less than £376m. 
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1) It took several years to get the rebate, so all that time there was no rebate,
2) The rebate is far from guaranteed and if we had voted to stay it would almost have certainly been stopped. It had already been reduced.
Either way it is a TRUE reflection of what we have had to pay in the past, what they want us to pay, and what we would have to pay in the near future if we stayed.
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The level of the UK rebate is decided every seven years, as part of the EU's long-term budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which is negotiated by the EU leaders. The long-term budget determines EU spending levels and priorities and it has to be approved unanimously by all 28 EU leaders.
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IE if just one EU country disagrees with the rebate, then no rebate at all.
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Tony Blair last night brokered an agreement on the EU budget which will see Britain give up £7bn of the rebate negotiated by Margaret Thatcher more than 20 years ago as part of a broad deal to pay the bill for Europe's enlargement to the east.
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