EU Statistics

• Europe accounts for just over 7% of the world’s population, 25% of its economy, and 50% global social welfare spending.

• Britain has had a £241 billion balance of payments deficit with the EU from 2007 to 2012 and a surplus with the rest of the world of £54 billion in the same period.

• Only 40% of Britain’s trade is now with the EU and this is falling continuously.

• Britain is the EU’S biggest export destination, same size as to the USA.
  

• MEPs voted out of office in the May 2014 elections will apparently get golden handshakes worth up to THIRTY-NINE THOUSAND EUROS each, plus no doubt generous pensions.

• 10,000 eurocrats earn more than the British PM and on their salaries pay around 13.4% tax. They enjoy in addition a vast array of expenses.