We'll get led down garden path! MEP says EU MUST show UK what it's ACTUALLY paying for
BREXITEER Nathan Gill said the UK will be ‘taken down the garden path’ by the EU if it doesn’t know what the Brexit bill is paying for
MEP Nathan Gill: EU need to explain reason for £50bn Brexit bill
The UKIP MEP said if there’s a reason for the UK to be paying billions of pounds to leave the EU, Brussels should show the UK what it is being billed for or Brussels could make a figure ‘out of thin air’.
Speaking to RT, he said: “I would like to see us do this properly, I would like to see a proper trade deal arranged.
“But I don’t want to see Britain being taken down the garden path, I want us to do things by the rule of law.”
He added that if the UK has a reason to pay for parts of the Brexit bill and it had agreed to to pay for it, then it should.
Mr Gill said the UK was being 'taken down the garden path' by the EU
Mr Gill said: “And if there is a reason why we have to pay something, show us the reason why and if it’s something we’ve agreed to, then we should pay it.
“But if we haven’t, if they’re just making these figures out of thin air, then no absolutely not, we should not be paying it.
"I mean when you consider how much money Britain is in debt - it’s crazy.”
He said that he was not the only Brexiteer who wants to see what Britain is being billed for as part of the divorce settlement.
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He said: “What I would very much like to see is, all Brexiteers want to see, is exactly what it is they are billing us for, what are we paying for?
“Because why not 100 billion? Why not a trillion? Why not one billion? These are just figures which have been plucked out of thin air and we’re pretty fed up of this.”
The UK is trying to break the Brexit deadlock by making progress on the EU’s key Brexit issues – including the Irish border, the financial settlement and citizens’ rights.
If “significant progress” is made on the three key issues by December, the UK and EU will be able to move to the second stage of Brexit negotiations for the EU summit next month.