May To Offer 20 Billion Euro Divorce Settlement

[Hymie]

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41342580

[gulliver1]

Boris's calculation, oh yes!

[Hymie]

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.

[Baldric]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1571859.html

[youngmafbog]

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.

[Old_Geezer]

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.

[Gromit]

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.

[ToraToraTora]

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.

[dannyk13]

Already discussed here:-
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1571859.html

[youngmafbog]

//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?

[dave50]

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.

[ludwig]

// 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.

[Khandro]

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

[Denton]

Where do they find £20 Billion pounds when the Country is crippled with Austerity?