Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
But he did answer the question and it seems very likely, to me, that there will have been some kind of funding to get these new countries started. No not think it would be anything like £41bn though.
Of course there has to be one off payments at the point of separation. Any country that's given money over time to a parent nation to help that parent nation fund itself has to get some compensation; otherwise it's theft. Mind you we are talking English Tories so that probably wouldn't phase them.