Lol! Uninformed manipulated dumbass. The issue was not the NHS promise but the figure itself. It isn't even CLOSE to £350m/week = £50m/day!!
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In 2015, the UK’s full membership fee would have been £17.8 billion. However, Britain doesn’t pay that full fee.
Because of a deal negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, Britain gets a “rebateâ€, an annual reduction in contributions.
Last year, that rebate reduced our contribution to £12.9 billion. That’s around £200 for every person in the UK.
£12.9 billion is around £35 million a day. That’s less than the £50-55 million-a-day figure that a lot of people campaigning the leave the EU cite.
That’s because the £50-55 million figure is based on the EU contribution before the rebate is applied. Brexit campaigners use the phrase “£55 million is sent to the EU every day†to suggest that the gross sum is paid to Brussels before a portion is sent back to the UK.
In fact, the rebate is effectively deducted at source, and so not actually sent to the EU at all.
Using the post-rebate figure, it’s more accurate to say the UK sends £35 million a day to the EU.
BUT!!!
Some of our contribution comes back to the UK in the form of subsidies and grants. British farmers get money from the Common Agricultural Policy and various economic development and scientific research projects get EU cash.
The Treasury says total EU payments to British public were £4.4 billion in 2015. Payments to private organisations were worth another £1.4 billion in 2013 (the most recent year on record.) That suggests we get back almost £6 billion a year.
Almost £1 billion of British money given to the EU is spend on international aid. That spending is counted towards the UK Government’s target of spending 0.7 per cent of Gross Domestic Product on aid.
In other words, it’s money the UK would have to spend anyway outside the EU, for as long as the Government remained committed to the aid target.
Taking account of the money that comes back and the aid spending, Britain last year gave almost £6.5 billion to the EU that would otherwise not have been paid out if we were not members of the club. That’s almost £18 million a day.
£18 million <<<<< £50-55 million!!!!!!!! It was a lie people based their Brexit votes on!
EU supporters say that money is more than worth it, since it is prerequisite of membership and thus access to the single market, which they say profits the UK by far more than £6.5 billion.