Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
There's a lot of whingeing and criticism of our negotiating team about this so called 'divorce bill' 59/60, including from your good self, so I have three questions for you.

1) How much are we legally obligated to pay ?

2) How much does the EU want us to pay ?

3) How much do you think we should pay ?

Incidentally, I was under the impression that the £20 million already offered was nothing to do with the 'divorce' settlement, it was a continuation of our annual payments into the EU budget during a two year transition period. But I haven't checked back, I could be wrong about that.
Not released for 2017 yet but as a comparison in 2016 the UK's (And some others) contributions were as follows:

Number of budgetary commitments 3,833
Total amount allocated for all beneficiaries 5,713,330,451 €

France:
Number of budgetary commitments 3,606
Total amount allocated for all beneficiaries 5,104,122,794 €

Spain:
Number of budgetary commitments 3,277
Total amount allocated for all beneficiaries 4,759,298,894 €

Poland:
Number of budgetary commitments 1,004
Total amount allocated for all beneficiaries 2,061,612,484 €

Bulgaria
Number of budgetary commitments 576
Total amount allocated for all beneficiaries 917,842,990 €