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When the UK left the EU, it still had some financial commitments to the bloc, which were estimated to come to around £32.9 billion. On Thursday, a statement from the government admitted that the figure is now £42.5 billion – an increase of almost £10 billion.
The announcement was made very quietly, after the start of parliament’s recess, cunningly avoiding coming under fire from opposition MPs – or even Tory bankbenchers, such as Theresa May.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2022/07/22/brexit-divorce-bill-another-10-billion/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62263972
"This Conservative government's terrible deal, backed by [Conservative leadership contenders] Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, is costing British taxpayers billions of pounds," Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran said.
"This is the price of years of Conservative chaos and neglect."
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Years of chaos and neglect saw the EU waste budgets on spurious farmer's claims etc and usurp our laws making us a subjugated people. The EU is shooting itself in the foot by trying to bash the UK to feign superiority instead of being reasonable over the protocol, sending migrants over the channel in dinghies and holding up travel from Dover being the latest neighbourly act. It is a closed shop. UK paid into EU for 50? years and had EU citizens remitting to their homes as a loss to the UK and turning many of us into fat layabouts due to preference for cheap hungry labour. UK was gradually losing the manufacturing capability, it can now build this on its own terms and efforts to reduce debt are accountable and transparent and can therefore be implemented meaningfully without bloating the EU commission or parliament. The latest tory election puts the spotlight on politicians and accountability where something can be done as opposed to following EU edicts and tinkering.
....for comparison
In 2018 the government spent £864.9 billion on all aspects of public spending
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/articles/theukcontributiontotheeubudget/2017-10-31
Levelling up is not part of EU policy I think, anyway, levelling down is really what is needed, put greedism in its place.
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If only the price of years of Conservative neglect was £10 billion!
I was on the edge of voting to leave EU as they were another costly level of governance and corruption..
Turns out we don't need EU to do that when we are subjugated to a bunch self righteous 2nd generation immigrants, Russian loving Eton greedy boys, ex forces so they will know how to run the country, comprehensive educated girl power, and self made walk all over everybody entrepeneurs. Vote for them and they'll set you free, subject to our subjugation and accepting they didn't mean and are doing their best.