As a member of the EU that is reliant upon it for trade and probably has hundreds of thousands of its people living and working in other EU countries, surely their opinion counts?
I wonder what financial contribution they made to join compared to the uk's?
as I thought their on a winner!
Payment in mil EUR in % of GDP in EUR per capita
GNI-based own resource -502.30 -0.66 -92.65
Customs and Agriculture duties paid by taxpayers -197.98 -0.26 -36.52
ESM -131.80 -0.17 -24.31
VAT-based own resource -69.00 -0.09 -12.73
UK correction (= the "rebate") -53.50 -0.07 -9.87
European Central Bank - Capital -9.14 -0.01 -1.69
Sugar levies -0.80 0.00 -0.15
Citizenship 5.60 0.01 1.03
Monetary Income redistribution 47.07 0.06 8.68
Competitiveness 69.20 0.09 12.76
Natural resources (=farm subsidies) 532.00 0.70 98.13
Cohesion 1,051.70 1.39 193.99