As Bruno le Maire tells the French Parliament
"I will say what Margaret Thatcher used to say: We want our money back," Le Maire said, answering questions from lawmakers in the economic affairs committee of the French parliament.
I love this stuff. Let me do a Dubya. Do the French have a word for "Net Contributor"?? Money back? Apart from one single year, the UK has been a net contributor to the EU budget.
They don't want their "money back". They want to raid our cupboard so that they can stock their own and they don't care if it looks like bare faced larceny.
To Leavers who might have been swithering over whether it was a good idea or not will be reminded, all over again, that the EU doesn't care about the UK so long as we keep on pumping the money in. Lip Service; is the idiom for what the UK gets in Brussels for the contributions we pay.
So they believe that we have to subjugate ourselves to billions of € before they will even "talk" about how we are going to leave. I have another option for them. We won't "talk" about anything and in two years the UK will exit the EU without paying a penny, the EU will take the full cost of moving the institutions in the UK, half a million French will be stranded in the UK with a quasi legal situation and the Germans will have nearly €150bn of trade endangered.
What a grown up game this is becoming!
