David Cameron to EU: UK Not Paying More
EU wants more money from UK because it is relatively economically healthy. France will get a rebate because it's not
David Cameron has said Britain will refuse to pay a "completely unacceptable" bill of £1.7billion to the European Union.
The Prime Minister hit out at the bill and spoke of his anger at the "appalling" way Britain has been treated by the European Commission.
He said that "it certainly doesn't help" the chances of Britain remaining in the EU after an in-out referendum due to be held in 2017.
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What's ?1.7B = in $USD? About $2.7B ? Wouldn't matter if it was $270B, or $2T for that matter, for our politicians it would amount to less than a sneeze! They couldn't care less, they'd throw it out the window then just grab even more without missing a beat.
Not sure they would if they were under the same heat that Cameron is.
UKIP is scaring the pants off him and the other 'major' players.
my co-worker's mother makes $71 /hr on the laptop . She has been unemployed for 9 months but last month her payment was $17334 just working on the laptop for a few hours. published here
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