The Political Thread

[COMMANDO FORCES]

I wonder how many of the locals could afford to use that leisure centre.

[Old Tankie]

The locals interviewed obviously didn't think the leisure centre was for them.

[IndigoPrime]

I saw one of those interviews. It was like Life of Brain.

Oh, well, yes, but apart from the leisure centre...
Well, the leisure centre and [something else]...

...

Well, sure. But apart from [long list], what has the EU ever done for us? *embarrassed expression*

[Dandontdare]

so we don't want evil Europeans taunting us with their state of the art leisure facilities, we don't want the local council improving railway links to attract business ....What DO we want?

[Old Tankie]

You give me a tenner and I'll give you a fiver back, that's a great deal for you.

[Steve Green]

The big issues like passport colours and stamps on pint glasses according to Paul Nuttall.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ukips-paul-nuttall-accused-insulting-9592280

[Hawkmumbler]

You give me a tenner and I'll give you a fiver back, that's a great deal for you.

Your anecdote is not a statement of fact. Let's try that again.

[The Legendary Shark]

I can't believe nobody's done the "what's a Welsh leisure centre?" joke yet...

It's almost as if offensive racial stereotyping was a thing of the past!

[Old Tankie]

The UK is a net contributor to the EU.

[Leigh S]

The UK is a net contributor to the EU.

I beleive we would get £6.66 back from our £10 (or thereabouts) but your point remains on a National scale... what would be more interesting would be to see Region by Region how much money is given to the EU and how much money is given - I suspect that London would be closer to that "give a tenner get a fiver" and some areas would be at least as well of- ironically, London voting to stay, with the poorer regions  that may well actually benefit voting to leave..

[Steven Denton]

The UK is a net contributor to the EU.

I beleive we would get £6.66 back from our £10 (or thereabouts)

Is that taking into account the cost of the EU services we use and the funds we could access but don't? 

[Theblazeuk]

All discussion and deflection aside, I trusted you with a tenner and you did this with it.

[Steven Denton]

The UK is a net contributor to the EU.

I think it would be amazing if we gave £10 to the EU and got nothing back because our country was so free of poverty and had such a good infrastructure that we just didn't need it.

[Old Tankie]

But we are not so why give the tenner in the first place.

[TordelBack]

The UK is a net contributor to the EU.

In the same way that I'm a net contributor to every club, journal or service I subscribe to. But I do it because I receive non-financial benefits that outweigh the cost. Anything else is a pyramid scheme.