£11bn? How about £56bn?

The Sun recently revealed that we have paid £56billion to the EU over the last year.
This will come as a shock to practically everyone. Even in the UKIP literature the figure is around £11bn.
People will rightly be angered and frustrated to hear this at a time when all of us face financial hardship and we must all seriously question whether we are benefitting at all from being part of this political union of excessive regulation.