[nomadking]

Originally Posted by jonbxx

That is the danger of a text only medium. It certainly didn't come over as aggressive when face to face. It was a wry amusement and certainly no malice was intended as, rightly, there nothing that I and the one other Brit there could influence as individuals.

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Yeah, I have double checking my figures and it does depend on how you measure things I guess.

I have been using this report from September 2019 covering the 2017 budget - http://researchbriefings.files.parli...55/SN06455.pdf

According to table 3, we are the second highest net contributors. However, according to table 4 where we look at contribution per head, we are fifth. My initial numbers came from the second table on this site - https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-one-b...ors-eu-budget/ which covers the 2014-16 budget round

From your first link.

MFF 2021-2027 may also be relevant to the UK if the UK remains part of the Customs Union or Single Market beyond the end of the transition on 31 December 2020. In such a scenario the Committee considers “it likely that the UK would be asked to make a continued financial contribution commensurate in some way with its participation in EU structures.

IE the backstop.