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Originally Posted by nomadking
That implies it has to be agreed afresh each time. For the 2020 agreement, everybody would have to agree the UK rebate for it to continue. If anybody disagreed, the rebate would no longer apply. If it was permanent then a decision wouldn't have to be made in order for it to continue, only for it to be stopped. A decision has to be made every 7 years, therefore it has to be positively approved each time.
What would happen if a country insisted on vetoing the long-term budget? Everything would grind to a halt, therefore realistically no country can veto it. Just as you occasionally see in the US when the Federal budget isn't agreed with the threat of "Shutdown", which does actually happen.
Austria, Germany, Holland, and Sweden also have their own system of rebates. We had an exemption to the "Social Chapter", but look what happened with the "Working Time Directive". It was forced upon us anyway. Blair relinquished part of the Rebate, so who's to say somebody else(eg Corbyn) wouldn't do the same?
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It's perfectly obvious to me that if we'd decided to stay in then the gates would have been very soon been behind us. Sadly our own 'remainer' leaders and the Eurocrats would very rapidly have further diluted our democracy and entwined the UK within Europe's web of laws, treaties etc sufficient to ensure leaving the club would effectively be impossible. So committed are these people to ensuring the objective of a single European state headed by Germany that they'll do virtually anything to make it happen. They have no respect for opinions which differ from their own and will not compromise on their objective. I believe time will tell we were better off leaving even though that was never going to be an easy option and doesn't make us immune from problems arising within the EU/Eurozone.