Britain is still the 5th largest economy among the world's 236 nations, 209 of which are outside the EU.
With a GDP of over £1,330 billion, Britain's economy is 50% larger than Russia's.
The cost of the EU is now 1/4 of our economy - £167 billon on the EU's quangos, the treasury's largest single expenditure by far, and all new.
We spend £100 billion enforcing EU regulations.
They lied to us the EU would be good for trade. We had an even balance before we joined - now we lose £35 billion a year trading with the EU.
Then there is the only bit the Press is allowed to talk about - the irrelevant £11 billion EU contribution.
The treasury is now insolvent - it cannot finance these massive new EU costs, and had to borrow an addition trillion which is pushing it over the edge.
The stunning thing is the British economy has held up so well when the EU should have successfully destroyed it years ago. It survived only because we've had the biggest boom in history.
British workers didn't participate - the EU, and its 10 million immigrants here, had the money that should have been theirs.
The coming recession will finally see the EU's sabotage succeed, and the EU will utterly destroy the Pound Sterling, which has been its intention all along.
That is why Brown was instructed to keep us out of the EU with his "five tests" - its much more difficult to destroy Britain if we're part of the Euro - the EU would be destroying itself.
The massive sabotage by the EU's agents in Britain - Gordon Brown, Blair, John Major, the Foreign Office etc. is finally coming home to roost.
No. they never planned to let us in the Euro.
The EU dictatorship canot be built while there is a strong Britain on its doorstep. That is why they always planned to destroy us - hundreds of Frankfurt School subversion techniques since the 1950s, and a deliberately manufactured economic collapse.
In the EU dictatorship, we will experience a vicious police state, and abject poverty.
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The EU's deliberate destruction of Britain's economy