Nobody 'lied' about how huge our contribution is
Well, actually Anya, they did. That £350 million on the side of the big red bus? It was a lie; the Leave campaign have openly admitted it was.
The amount of our annual 'national' income that we pay to the EU is about 1%. It's about the same as we pay out in overseas aid. The Leave campaign of course focussed on what went out and got everyone indignant about their simplistic sums (quoted on here, I see) which make it look as though we're being in some way cheated by the EU. Including all that stupid guff about EU pensions. What they omitted to mention, of course, was the financial benefits of membership; trading profits (EU is 44% of our export market), shared costs for regulatory agencies, such as Euratom, reduced costs of customs personnel. Not to mention costs for the individual. I'm sure that others can provide more examples.
'Cancelling debts' is just more Leavers' rubbish. We're not talking about postwar reparations, we're talking about committments made on future spending which we should honour. Like Nigel Farage's pension...