Quote Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish View Post
On Mars maybe, but there isn't a political party or organization that doesn't accept the complete opposite :

The UK pays more into the EU budget than it gets back.

In 2017 the UK government paid £13 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was forecast to be £4 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at nearly £9 billion.

Each year the UK gets a discount on its contributions to the EU—the ‘rebate’—worth about £5.6 billion last year. Without it the UK would have been liable for £18.6 billion in contributions
So, for each pound spent on membership of the European Union, roughly how much is that worth to the British economy in terms of having a free trade deal with the EU? Why do you think prosperous countries like Switzerland and Norway, while choosing not to be members of the EU, are happy to part with lots of wonga to have good trade deals with the EU? Not even Norway and Switzerland think it's a good idea to have a complete break from the EU and no trade deals.