Seems just as appropriate today.
Posted on 05/12/2016 7:41:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said Thursday that Britain will not get an improved membership deal with the European Union if the country votes to leave the bloc.
Schäuble said in a speech he wanted to end any speculation that a “leave” vote in the June 23 referendum could be used to improve on a deal won by Prime Minister David Cameron to change Britain’s membership terms.
Schäuble said that “this is the only deal on the table. An ‘out’ vote cannot be used to get a better deal. ‘In’ means ‘in’ and ‘out’ means ‘out.’” …
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The EU is also threatening to take Gibraltar from Britain if it leaves.
Gibraltar? Kommen Sie und nehme es, Fritz!
Hey, I’ve got this marvelous deal... You do whatever you can to keep a (at least temporarily) solvent member in the EU, and that might just keep German voters from going ‘WTF are we doing, giving away our wages to make it easy for those in Greece, Italy and Spain to dodge the taxman and not pay their debts?’
Or continue on the path you’re on, saying dire things will happen, which of course to voters means ‘shut up and do what we tell you to do.’ Voters don’t like that much, ask Hillary Clinton how that’s worked out so far this campaign.
They’ve been making that threat for a while. They figure that all territory ceded to the EU due to joining the bloc is theirs in perpetuity; of course, they will make the false claim that Gibraltar is “Spain’s” to “justify” that.
Seems just as appropriate today.
Debts to whom, though?
The EU is all about territory and expansion. That is why they do what they do.
Wouldn’t Gibraltar vote to exit the EU? This could get weird.
That sounds insane, so I thought you must be kidding. Then I did a quick Google search. By golly, you weren't kidding.
What would Winston Churchill say?
Germany is attempting extortion.
It is no longer if but when will the EU fall apart.
The Brits should offer to return East Germany to the Russians.
“Mr. Putin, put back up this wall.”
Genius. If treaties are to be re-opened, let them all be re-opened,
God told us what would happen, Daniel 2.
"Some neck, some chicken".
East Germans used to shoot people who tried to leave... With Germans there’s barbed wire or the threat of barbed wire... ‘
It’s who they are...
This should be a hint to the Brits about what they should do - and how quickly they should do it.
Run for the hills guys..
No, it won’t fall apart, but it’ll shift into that “two-speed” mode that they always talk about. It was always about the hard core of the original members from 1951.
Herr Schäuble,have you considered how subsequent dominoes might fall if Britain,one of Europe’s three most important economies,is first?
It needs one of those Hitler rant parodies about the Brits leaving the EU.
It was even in their national anthem....
Hail, hail East Germany
Land of fruit and grape
Land where you'll regret
If you try to escape
No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn't first.
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