£20 Billion, anyone?

[Keithcaley]

According to the Daily Express , the EU are demanding that we pay our outstanding debts amounting to £20 Billion - or else they won't let us leave!

[Deniz1]

So will it be written off if they stay? Ha ha dont think so.

[waddo]

I hope that the Brexitiers can afford it - lol.

[Keithcaley]

I hope that the Brexitiers can afford it - lol.

I don't know what you're laughing at, they'll probably stop it out of your pension!

You'll probably be 100,000 years old by the time you've paid it off...

[turtle]

Only £20billion......I expected at least 50 from the greedy eurocrats.

As the eagles one said.... you can check out anytime you want but you just can never leave ?

[waddo]

I'll have the last laugh then, with them stopping it out of my pension I won't pay as much income tax - lol.

[RAZR63]

I take it this is in their audited accounts that weren't signed off for various reasons!

EU accounts fail audit for 19th year in a row - 2013

EU auditors refuse to sign off more than £100billion of its own spending - 2014

[Hammerhead]

Only £20billion......I expected at least 50 from the greedy eurocrats.

As the eagles one said.... you can check out anytime you want but you just can never leave ?

The eagles always got it right!

[pakora]

Don't panic, it was written in the Express, no one believes what is in the Express

[Keithcaley]

Don't panic, it was written in the Express, no one believes what is in the Express

I know, but it's fun, isn't it?

[waddo]

Just wait - it will be repeated in Cyprus Today and then we will all know its just rubbish! I may have made a small error with having a last laugh - just had another look at my figures and if I have to pay back the lot out of half my pension I would be 6,666,666,666 years old by the time I had finished - I have not added interest owing on the outstanding amount as my calculator does not have that many zero's on it - lol.

[kibsolar1999]

pakora wrote:
Don't panic, it was written in the Express, no one believes what is in the Express

2- 6 million (hard copies, internet) readers can not fail, or?

my other question would be: why do you read (or post) it then?

btw,
- this "news" is 3,5 month old.
- the "unpaid debts" from member states to the EU, the so called RAL, "reste á liquider", add to 200 billion, and 25 is the british share.
- no wonder that, if a country wants to leave, "the others" would like to have this bill settled.
- when the EU did want 2,1 billion additionally from the UK in 2014 (because the economy in the UK was better as forecasted... and Germany and France would have got most of the money.. which they already did pay to the EU...), Cameron responded in rage... because he took a 58 billion new debts in 2014 alone (seems that the ones with the most money in the UK do not pay any taxes ..)
and Farage did use it for his own..... that was the final start for the Brexit campaingn: the EU wants to "squeeze" the british...

[kibsolar1999]

waddo wrote:
just had another look at my figures and if I have to pay back the lot out of half my pension I would be 6,666,666,666 years old by the time I had finished

ok, 20 billion (debts) divided by 6,666,666,666 (plus your age) makes a three pounds pension a year. if this reperesents "half of your pension", you get 6 pounds a year.. correct?, or are "my zeros" now wrong?
did not know that the UK payes that stingy pensions.

[Keithcaley]

Kibsolar1999,

You're so literal!

It's just a bit of fun!

[Joe Soap]

I think this figure has been quoted to deter other profitable (net contributor) countries from leaving the EU. If these costs are based on the UK's profitability just think how much money Greece and Italy say, could claim back on their departure from the EU.

[waddo]

Hmmm, must get a new calculator - when I used this one and divided 20,000,000,000,000 by 6,666,666,666 it gave me and answer of 3000.0000003 that would give me a reduced pension of £3,000.00 not £3.00 - but yes the UK not only pays a stingy pension, it taxes it before you get it as well - lol.

I think the answer for the British of the UK is to leg it down the tunnel to France while its still open, then claim diplomatic immunity from all crimes so they don't have to pay - it would take the EU thousands of years to sort out 46 million claims like that - lol.

[Deniz1]

I only have a state pension so dont pay any tax.

[turtle]

The leaders of the EU are nothing but spendthrifts who like nothing more than adding noughts to numbers.....roll on next March

[waddo]

I have the state pension and a military pension so I pay tax - more every time they increase the state pension, grrr - and people keep telling me that the state pension is tax free, well it would be if I did not get it but then I would not be as super rich as I am now - lol. Not moaning by the way, happy with my lot but think it will be a bad move for pensioners if they do away with the triple lock because then pensions will once again fall behind and there will be no way back from that again. Next March? - oh yes, the grass that is always greener on the other side - now I get it.

[turtle]

The grass is the same shade of green both sides of the fence,... the important thing is what is underneath that matters ?

[kibsolar1999]

turtle:
The grass is the same shade of green both sides of the fence,... the important thing is what is underneath that matters ?

remove the fence, then the answer is: no

for Keith:
well, yes, one of my disadvantages is to believe that many things are no fun. or was Cameron`s rage in 2014 "only fun"?

[turtle]

Remove the fence/border and you get the issues we have today ?

[waddo]

Wait till April and the French stop people from crossing - then you will have the issues you tried to get rid of today, only so many of them you won't be able to cope with it. Happy day's.

[turtle]

Sorry Waddo you lost me ?

French will stop people crossing from where and to ?