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You even edited that after posting. By adding "Sorry flecc. Its done in jest." I'll forgive you this time, but do it again and I'll set the French on you. .

It happens. It's worst when one doesn't return for 24 hours when the edit facility is no longer available and the amended post now strongly disagreed with carries an Agree for posterity. .

I never suspected it was to deceive, as you say we all edit posts. I do try not to edit by addition after posting though, preferring to reply twice so as not to accidentally mislead. Most of my editing is due to my appalling typing. Too often at the end of a sentence when I look up to the...

In some respects true, but there are areas where we have much to teach them by way of example. Racism for example, many EU countries are very retarded in that respect. One day we'll rejoin them anyway, though that may be distant. .

Sadly. With our undoubted strengths we could have done wonders in improving the EU and being instrumental in rectifying its many faults which I've always recognised. But I've still always supported the project since its ambitions for social justice are so desirable. Of course with such a...

But if we'd co-operated instead of always being awkward, we wouldn't be a colony, it would be a predominantly Anglo-Franco-German empire. .

That's actually Zlatan's favourite trick. Many's the time I've given him an agree, them found later he's added something extensive I very much disagreed with. .

Rubbish, OG is a pensioner: "The state French pension scheme then entitles retirees to draw a maximum of 50% of their annual average earnings up to a limit of €39,732 per year. For those born since 1953, a minimum pension rate is secured at 37.5%." I doubt OG gets from the state 50% of what he...

Strange that we have such a large number of ex pats living there if it's so bad? .

Utter scaremongering nonsense, Cauldwell is so ignorant he thinks the Great in Great Britain refers to status, where in fact it only refers to the addition of the land area of Scotland at the time of union. I doubt Cauldwell even realises that if Scotland leaves the union, there will no longer...

I haven't said everything is better, that would be impossible. I said they are more advanced on the important things I mentioned. I've posted before that I missed an opportunity to live there long ago. Having left it too long until I was old and having lifelong friends and a comfortable life...

I was posting to Zlatan in reference to my earlier post to him saying since 1948, so didn't repeat that. .

Ireland's system isn't remotely like ours and they mostly elect coalitions. I've never argued for pure PR, only argued against our first past the post system. No other country in the EU has solely first past the post system, winner takes all in one stage, so they have many more coalitions...

Picking the one exception from 27 proves the opposite of what you are trying to do. .

Of course, supporting my point that they govern better. But what you seem to be missing in the PR argument is that the majority position that FPTWP gives to the winner is that the winner is more often than not a coalition. In your example Italy it always is. .

One note, it's going back to at least 28 soon. Macedonia, renamed to get Greek agreement is joining the EU shortly: "On 12 June 2018, an agreement was reached between Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev, known as the Prespa agreement,[7] under which...

It actually was a joke and he said as much. More importantly though Blair's government who it was who ran up that huge debt was not a true socialist labour government but a con trick, having the public enjoying living off borrowed money rather than investing it for improvement. Blair even...

You really couldn't be more hopelessly wrong if you tried to be. Just look at how much more advanced the long standing EU countries are than us. Their roads, their railways, their airports coverage, their pensions and benefits systems and scales, their shorter working weeks, the speed of...

That's fine. I'd just like to remark though that you couldn't have chosen a worst example than Italy. Italy is always chaotic because that is what they do best. As one of a half Italian family I know that only too well. .

You forgot to mention the flying pigs in your portrayal of an imaginary UK. ;) But this is the real UK where we haven't reached the 21st century and still cling onto much of the 19th. In your imaginary future railways will still be a vital part of transport in most successful countries...