Brexit

[JRPGfan]

Pyro as Bill said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Possibly for a while, as the EU budget is always votes for a period of several years, so these might still be included right now. But once those run out, I doubt that the EU will want to finance the UK any further, so the Brits will need to finance it themselves.

We're a net contributor.

Anything we 'got' from the EU we are now free to double spending on or spend it where we think it should be spent.

Still you need to remember that this money, doesnt just go into a pit.
Its used for things that benefit all the countries of the EU.  Alot of that, was focused in area's that where in the UK.

So even if you spent ~8 bn / year after the rebate the UK had, the actually "loss" is alot less than that.
Also to put things into perspective, this is probably like 0.2% of the UK's GDP.

Lets not blow it out of perprotions, the amount of money spent on the EU is tiny and meaningless for the UK.
And the benefits it got, probably heavily outweighted the costs it paid.

"we can spend this money better ourselves" mentality is stupid imo, I honestly doubt if thats even true.