EU Membership Costs?

EU Membership in 2008

costs Britain £106,117.00 per minute!

( 2007 ) £105,105.00

The price of the combined direct and indirect expenses of EU membership in 2008 costs Britain £55.775 billion. Set out in the latest Bruges Group research the full financial burden to Britain has now been calculated. They show a dramatic increase in the costs of the EU - A price Britain cannot afford.
The facts:
- By 2007 Britain had an accumulated trade deficit with the other EU member states of £383.7 billion
- The Common Agricultural Policy costs Britain at least £16.8 billion per annum
- The Common Fisheries Policy costs Britain at least £3.275 billion per annum
- Over-regulation on business costs Britain at least £28 billion per annum.

www.brugesgroup.com/mediacentre/index.live?article=14036

OK British Frogs - Pay Attention!

In order to cook the frog, you need to increase the temperature...

In the experiment a frog was dropped into a pot of hot (not boiling) water. It immediately jumped out, as would any sensible frog. Then it was placed in a pot of cool water sitting on a stove. This was more to its liking, so it swam about and lounged comfortably. The heat was turned on and raised very gradually. Soon it was hotter than the water in the first experiment, but the frog didn't jump out. This was because there was no dramatic difference, as there had been when it was taken from room temperature and dropped into hot water. The frog became accustomed to the increased temperature as it was raised little by little. Before long the temperature was so high that the frog was unable to jump out of the pot, and it died.

www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2002/10/frogs_in_the_eu_pot.html