No such thing as an EU “Grant”

Right on. The UK pays the EU about 13billion pounds a year and gets about 60% of that back from figures I remember. So it’s farcical for those getting EU funding to say that they will be cut off from funding. It’s simply a matter of internal re-direction of funds by the British Government, with the excess used to improve life within the UK. Hawking and educators would know this, so why they whine on about losing funding is disingenuous. One has to wonder what their motive are. Tied to this is that British money is being returned to UK educational institutions by the EU, and such ‘EU money’ is being used for brainwashing the younger British generation into believing that the UK is better off staying as a province in the nascent EU federal country. I can’t wait for 23 June and my chance to vote LEAVE and end the hypocrisy that is the European Union. Let the other 27 provinces carry on in their subservience to an unworkable federalist experiment. I want the UK out of the EU mess so badly that I can taste it. Why on earth would any right-thinking Brit want to stay in?!

I entirely agree with the sentiments of the author and Phil Jones.I have recently come across similar views to Darzi and Hawkins amongst acquiescences of my own.I think that the problem is that they subscribe to the rule ” a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”.
They know that there may be a chance that the amount that they or their friends/family are now receiving could be less if the British government is left to dole out the money/grants.It is pure short term self interest.
What they are failing to take into consideration is the fact that in the longer term they will do very much better under a national government deciding funding than under the chaotic and corrupt EU government.

I hear so many people including MPs saying THAT WE WILL BE SAFER in Europe.
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The £13 billion is only part of what we pay the EU Phil. The last figure I read was that in fines on Government and Councils, for not hitting EU set targets, we may have paid as much as an extra £30 billion to the EU. We have no say in how the little money that comes back is spent and, as we have been told, a fair chunk of it comes in the form of bribes and “soft loans,” from The EIB.
As for the scaremongering, it does not come close to the massive lie on Facebook at the weekend from some Better In group of MP’s who stated “That Britain gets back ten times what it pays in – a pound for every ten pence.” The more the lie and use scare tactics, the more they turn people against them. Although I have put into the Daily Mail Online Comments “Give Us One Good Reason to be In, or One Benefit of Membership,” no one has even been tempted to reply.