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May To Offer 20 Billion Euro Divorce Settlement
This must be seen as a good deal for the UK if accepted, after all by Boris’s calculation we have given the EU this amount every year.
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It is a contract, and we either have to honour what we signed, or we have to pay a penalty.
The EU reckon we must pay £100billion and May is offering £20billion. If anyone thinks the EU will settle for May's offer, they are clearly living on another planet.
What will probably happen is that we will end up paying 3 times May's offer, and that will then be presented as some kind of victory.
It is a contract, and we either have to honour what we signed, or we have to pay a penalty.
The EU reckon we must pay £100billion and May is offering £20billion. If anyone thinks the EU will settle for May's offer, they are clearly living on another planet.
What will probably happen is that we will end up paying 3 times May's offer, and that will then be presented as some kind of victory.
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// The EU reckon we must pay £100billion and May is offering £20billion. If anyone thinks the EU will settle for May's offer, they are clearly living on another planet.
What will probably happen is that we will end up paying 3 times May's offer, and that will then be presented as some kind of victory. //
Well, yes exactly. That's how these things work. One side asks for a stupidly high figure, the other side offers a stupidly low figure. They end up agreeing something realistic in between and both sides claim it's a glorious success.
Anyway, the combined expenses claims will probably amount to 20billion by the time the 'negotiations' are completed.
What will probably happen is that we will end up paying 3 times May's offer, and that will then be presented as some kind of victory. //
Well, yes exactly. That's how these things work. One side asks for a stupidly high figure, the other side offers a stupidly low figure. They end up agreeing something realistic in between and both sides claim it's a glorious success.
Anyway, the combined expenses claims will probably amount to 20billion by the time the 'negotiations' are completed.
I think they will double it and May's negotiators will split the difference and the sum will be a cool £30b over maybe 3 years so the UK will be effectively £2b per annum worse off for that period. i.e. the EU will be £6b better off than they are now, with the UK's current net £8b p.a. contributions
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