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May To Offer 20 Billion Euro Divorce Settlement

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Hymie | 19:55 Thu 21st Sep 2017 | News
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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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Boris's calculation, oh yes!
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I’m willing to bet that all the men who have been divorced would be more than happy to be offered a deal whereby they paid their ex-wife the equivalent of what the marriage had cost them for a single year.
It's not a marriage, it is club membership and I dont know any club that asks for a 'divorce settlement'

If May pays a penny she is finished.
It'd be a better deal if the EU paid us €20B.
No reason whatsoever that we should be paying them. As far as I am aware they've not shown any agreement we've signed up to, in which we've agreed to still be responsible to pay on exit. It's simply a mugging until they do.
We have made legal commitments to future spending, and there is no getting out of it.
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.
the last budget ends in 2019 we will pay up to then gromit which is coincidentally when we are offski so I can't see how we "owe" them a bean.
//It is a contract, and we either have to honour what we signed, or we have to pay a penalty.//

Have you seen the contract? Are there penalty clauses in there?

Or are you doing your usual and presenting your dribble as fact?
I don't know what the problem is. Just tell them we are leaving and walking away on a set date then leave it to them to come begging.
// 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.
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
Where do they find £20 Billion pounds when the Country is crippled with Austerity?

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