If ,and it does, the UK pays more into the EU budget at present than it takes out as benefits, then it's because it has been more successful than other , in some cases more recent entrants. Not because it's the cost of doing business or a tariffDo you think that any other country in the world, apart from Norway, actually pay a premium to trade with the EU? I can accept that the EU wants to dissuade other members from leaving the party but this is not the way to do that.
Non-EU countries do, of course, have to pay the external tariff to the EU. But Britain has to pay £8-£9 billion into the EU budget, the equivalent of a tariff of about 7 per cent on our goods. Our free access is not free access at all. Arguing for the single market on the grounds that you can avoid a 3 per cent tariff by actually paying 7 per cent fee is mis-selling on a scale that dwarfs the PPI scandal.
. I could say that this allows you a place at the table, the benefit of a single European court, the opportunity to contribute to and shape technical standards and a real potential voice in Europe. It also gives UK subjects citizen rights in Europe, the right to own property anywhere in Europe, the right to visa free travel. In a future where England's GDP had dropped and the vibrant economies of Poland and Romania have grown, perhaps they would be the nett contributors and the UK the recipient.
But leaving the EU means all these rights ,and opportunities are forfeit. That you might not value them at present ,is obvious but in a future?