UK earns 17 or 18 billion Euros yearly from EU EFL industry?

[Machjo]

http://www.vanguardonline.f9.co.uk/0602PTBL.htm

" (i) The United Kingdom gains a minimum of ten billion euros each year by the current predominance of English
(ii) taking the multiplier effect of that sum; and also the return on capital which the anglophone countries can invest elsewhere, from the privileged position of their language, it comes to 17 or 18 billion euros"

Man! How's that for a subsidy!

 

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Re: UK earns 17 or 18 billion Euros yearly from EU EFL indus

Would that, by any chance, equal the monies they received from the Opium Trade in the last century?

 

[Machjo]

Re: UK earns 17 or 18 billion Euros yearly from EU EFL indus

Would that, by any chance, equal the monies they received from the Opium Trade in the last century?

There is a difference, though. In the case of the opium trade, China was smart enough to try to stop it, but the British forced such trade onto China via superior military strength.

In the case of the EFL industry, the British are not forcing this upon the EU, but rather the EU imposing it on itself. So ironically enough, inasmuch as it is unjust and gives the UK an unfair advantage at the EU's expense, the UK cannot be held to blame here despite its benefitting from it; the EU is entirely at fault for this one for allowing this situation to happen when it would be entirely in the EU's power to stop it.