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Originally Posted by Mr K
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Seeing as the rebate was going to be scrapped if we remained, the true figure would have been more than £350m/week. In fact a budget report said that even if the rebate remained, our contributions would have soon approached £350m/week.
Whatever way you look at it, having to give a 66% rebate in order to get to a "fair" contribution, clearly show that the system of calculating contributions is extremely unfair as far as the UK was concerned.
The way the rebate worked was that for every £3 we "got back" from the EU, £2 was taken off the rebate. IE more than 2 in £3 of EU money spent here came directly from the UK in the first place. No other EU country, including Germany, had to fund their EU spending to that extent.
Public opposition to the EU was there long before the referendum campaign. That is why there was a referendum in the first place. It wasn't because a small number of people wanted to leave.