Political naivety

Maybe - I happen to form part of the age group you've listed - though I
actually voted.
I'd like to think that whilst there are people like the ones you describe,
there are a lot of others who have their own brains and will form their own
opinions.

FWIW, beer would have absoluely zero influence in my decisions.

 

My British MP has no more rights than I do. I would object just
as strongly if he had.

It makes me very happy in fact. A British citizen free to
exercise his rights in his own country. What could be nicer than
that?

riccip

 

You'd love it. Really. I mean this. Dead good, it is, being able to
spend the same money in loads of different countries.

 

Good morning, sir.

Today we have Ostrich, Emu and Penguin wings.

 

Whay an inspiring argument - politics reduced to a football match.

 

That's just a question of borders. Which have been pretty fluent over
the years.

Welsh? Gaelic? Cornish? Manx?

We're all in a global economy now

What shall we eat tonight? Indian? Greek? Thai? Italian?

No, because he's nearly 80 years old. But, in principle, I don't much
care where someone was born. And neither do the French it seems -
d'Estaing was born in Germany.

 

Class, sheer class.

 

LOL. No, of course not. I've read so many stereotypes in this
thread I thought I'd slip in one of my own. BTW do you know how
they separate the men from the boys in Italy? With a crowbar.

Many times. I was in Como, almost a suburb, just two weeks ago
stocking up on lemoncello.

Virtually everywhere in Italy.

From Nordcap to Gavdos, and most places inbetween. Looking
forward to exploring more of the Baltic countries too now that
access has been made easier.

If you knew me you'd say I'm the last person you'd call
anti-Europe. I'm all for closer links between European countries.
But NOT unification, political or otherwise. The whole idea is
fundamentally flawed and the worst thing possible for them and
us.

riccip

 

No, but I do eat curved bananas.

http://www.heatonharris.org.uk/newsarticle.php?id=69

riccip

 

Having checked this it does appear I was wrong, and that MEPs and
EC Commissioners no longer have their own duty-free shop.
Following obvious public outrage it was decided their private
underground "shopping bunker" in Brussels would simply discount
the goods instead. So the privileged few now pay Belgian rates of
duty, then receive a thumping great discount in it's place. Nice
work if you can get it.

riccip

 

Yes, but do you know what the banana curve legislation was actually
about, captain numbskull?

No? Then allow me to enlighten you with a very compressed and over
simplified sun reader friendly version.

Bananas grown in the Caribbean (which bear in maind is mostly built up
of former EU colonies) are a slightly different shape to bananas grown
in Latin America, the other main banana producing region. The banana
legislation was a political mechanism used to reduce the mass import of
Latin American bananas over those produced in *our* former colonies, and
thus was about protecting jobs and livelihoods.

Now, go away and have a think. Stop if you smell burning.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Is there anything about which you know something of what you're talking
about?

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Yes and no.

My principle objection to China is the shitty conditions in their
factories - but that's because the West demands cheap trainers. Or
rather, that Nike pays the sweatshops a pittance so that they can make
profits for their shareholders.

Cheap stuff.

 

Quelle surprise.

 

<covers eyes>

 

I'm still waiting for a description of why the Euro is "play money" from
him.

 

Canada grows 20% of the world's rape seed oil and 10% of the
world's palm oil.

Please don't be obtuse. Growing our own food requirements, other
than rape seed.

We're talking 40 years ago, not the great potato famine.

People who lived through those years say it was. Ask any OAP
who's dying on a trolley in some forgotten hospital corridor,
then explain how your grandiose Euroschemes are financed at the
expense of their pensions.

Bernard Connolly would have won his case in any British court.
That much is beyond argument. However you try to sugar it the
European court found him guilty of criticising the EU.

Again Bernard Connolly didn't tell any lies. He was a whistle
blower. If you were speaking the truth your employers couldn't
touch you for it. If you were dismissed your employers would have
to prove you wrong or cough up a mountain of compensation. Under
British law you would anyway.

Y'know, your attitude really scares me. Piss your own rights up
the wall if you like, I'd prefer to keep mine.

Not so. Kindly try any search engine then show me where I have
allegedly C&P'd from.

Because I'm strongly anti-Nazi. You Europhiles are happy to risk
letting them in through the back door. Perhaps not this year, or
next, or even within our lifetime. But this cobbled together
constitution reads like Mein Kampf. The inherent dangers are
there for anyone to see, other than those with Europhile tunnel
vision.

riccip

 

Politics has ALWAYS been a football match.

I well remember some 20-odd years ago going to vote in a local
council election, when a bloke came out of the booth with his
voting paper to ask the assistant "Where's Mar-grot Fat-cha on
'ere?"

riccip

 

No it doesn't. Care to make direct comparisons?

With references, not some Google-tastic lash job. Try to show some
understanding of what you're talking about.

You do seem to be strangely obsessed with Germany. Personally I'd be
more concerned with the power of Dow Jones, Wall Street and the Nikkei to
control and subjugate your work, security, pension and daily life.

 

I'll stick with exchanging my Pounds thanks. I'll get more for
them as the Euro value plummets when the Dollar's back on it's
feet.

riccip