Keep our sense of humour ?
We're gonna need it!
And don't read any books that're too "brexity" ;-)
We're gonna need it!
And don't read any books that're too "brexity" ;-)
Humour is fine, and albeit we are not neighbours on the opinion spectrum, I like your contribution.Keep our sense of humour ?
We're gonna need it!
And don't read any books that're too "brexity" ;-)
Apologies, I hadn't considered this particular serious deficit of Smartphones. Not having a mobile signal where I live in a London borough and knowing how much the government lie about their wholly inadequate coverage, I'm very much an enemy of Smartphones and the damage they are doing to young society in particular. I most strongly object to the bullying to use one, to the extent of deliberately making life difficult without access to one. I often punish the organisations that do that by switching from their communication with me by computer to totally paper and postage, the hard way.I much prefer we exchange our views via our own writing. Wherever a link is necessary, Flecc even does not post the 'short reveal' or unfurl of his link, he attach the URL to the word 'LINK'. Although I appreciate the gentlemanly attitude, it's too much finger work on a phone for me.
I used to do that (become as obtuse as humanly frickin possible when speaking to gp surgery trolls etc), but somewhere along the way I learned to be more passive in my passive aggression, after a few hard knocks (one emphatically does not want to cheese hmrc off enough to make it take an unsavoury interest in one).Apologies, I hadn't considered this particular serious deficit of Smartphones. Not having a mobile signal where I live in a London borough and knowing how much the government lie about their wholly inadequate coverage, I'm very much an enemy of Smartphones and the damage they are doing to young society in particular. I most strongly object to the bullying to use one, to the extent of deliberately making life difficult without access to one. I often punish the organisations that do that by switching from their communication with me by computer to totally paper and postage, the hard way.
HMRC are the largest victim of my revenge, they have to send everything the hardest way, but I pay what I owe conveniently and easily online by computer.
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It's funny really; all the bad things which came with BREXIT, can be summed up by the term, ' EU TARIFFS', and 'EU non tariff barriers'. Restraint of trade, vindictively and arbitrarily applied, to a nation in every way compliant with standards. It was and is a viscious approach, carried out as a warning to others.Mike, you are turning this famous thread into a joke.
It's funny really - all the bad things which came with BREXIT, can be summed up by the term, ' EU TARIFFS', and 'EU non tariff barriers'. Restraint of trade, vindictively and arbitrarily applied, to a nation in every way compliant with their standards. It was and is a viscious approach, carried out as a warning to others.Mike, you are turning this famous thread into a joke.
There is no contradiction. You just don't realise how big the portion of trade that relied on the 4 freedoms that EU member states have like building work, music festivals, stock market, bank loans, insurance, reselling goods that came from outside the EU.But wait - how did those same people react when Trump did the same and started applying arbitrary tariffs, quotas and barriers to trade? Oh! When Trump imposes obstacles to international free trade it was all a monstrous imposition, absolute beastliness and madness.....
I wonder how they resolve the internal contradiction.
EU tariffs are not quite as venalIt's funny really; all the bad things which came with BREXIT, can be summed up by the term, ' EU TARIFFS', and 'EU non tariff barriers'. Restraint of trade, vindictively and arbitrarily applied, to a nation in every way compliant with standards. It was and is a viscious approach, carried out as a warning to others.
Funnily enough, the opponents of BREXIT never ever see it that way. It was all OUR fault, and well deserved and brought on our heads by 'stupid John Bull fanatics and 'Gammons', but wait - how did those same people react when Trump did what the EU always did, and started applying arbitrary tariffs, quotas and barriers to trade?
Oh! When Trump imposes obstacles to international free trade it was all a monstrous imposition, absolute beastliness and madness.....
I wonder how they resolve the internal contradiction. They must be tearing themselves apart at the contrafiction, unless they have a remarkable capacity for delusion.
I despise Trump as a man, but he is tight to trash the EU with tariffs. They have been operating fierce trade barriers against American goods for a long time, and ponsing off the American tax payer for their defence - most if them spending risible amounts on defence, while talking tough behind an American shield - especially the Germans, and never more so than when von de what' her name was German defence minister.
When you say 'ideal world', I think Utopia - the Garden of Eden and other such concepts. The problem is that reality intrudes. We have seen time and again through history that maniacs gain control of powerful nations - sometimes our neighbours: Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Putin. There are many many others and there will be others in the future. This is why we must either prepare to defend ourselves or become slaves. It is only ninety years since Hitler enslaved millions and murdered a lot more. I did not believe that Putin would invade Ukraine three years ago - until he did.EU tariffs are more
EU tariffs are not quite as venal
in an ideal world we'd all spend less on defence
@MikelBikel remember your guy George Simion? He has now conceded to Nicosor Dan. If you want to talk about another EU's issue, Poland's Donald Tusk, I will debate you.Rats leaving the sinking ship?
did Starmer get us back in the EU? No, he did not.Sums it up well?!
Sums it up well?!
Now if only truss would join reform and save us..there importing the eu in to the uk to bankrupt the country buy 2030![]()