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| I didn't check current figures, but last time I did I think the UK was a net payer to EU. If UK leaves those moneys are free to be distributed directly to, among others, UK farmers instead being distributed via Brussels.
This seems quite alarmist - but hey, it's a good headline for the article, innit.
As the article itself states
"They [the UK farmers] would lose most of this [the 3bln in subsidies] at a stroke unless the British government guaranteed compensating support of one kind or another, and so far it has clarified nothing. "
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Quite true Urs Max.
"The UK pays more into the EU budget than it gets back.
In 2015 the UK government paid
£13 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was
£4.5 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at about
£8.5 billion.
Each year the UK gets an instant discount on its contributions to the EU—the ‘rebate’—worth almost £5 billion last year. Without it the UK would have been liable for £18 billion in contributions."
https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-m...ee-55-million/
That £8.5 billion would more than cover any loss to farmers on leaving the EU.