Oh look, a Pole. Now why do they love the EU so much? Hmm...
Posted on 06/19/2016 11:34:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
..."If we choose to leave, we can leave but let's be clear if we do leave we are walking out the door, we are quitting, we are giving up on this organisation which even if we leave will have a huge effect on our lives, our children, on our opportunities, on our businesses," he said .
"I don't think Britain at the end is a quitter. I think we stay and fight. That is what we should do. That is what made our country great and that's how it will be great in the future.
"At my office I sit two yards away from the Cabinet Room where Winston Churchill decided in May 1940 to fight on against Hitler - the best and greatest decision anyone has made in our country
"He didn't want to be alone, he wanted to be fighting with the French and with the Poles and with the others but he didn't quit. He didn't quit on Europe, he didn't quit on European democracy, he didn't quit on European freedom.
"We want to fight for those things today. You can't win, you can't fight, if you are not in the room. You can't win a football match if you are not on the pitch."
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The British would prevent the French from dominating. And at the same time they would be able to lead a group of 500 million people.
They already do -- one of the favorite programs on German TV is an Aussie (ok, Aussie, yes, but to the Germans an Anglo-Saxon) talking about German history to Germans.
The Germans kind of like their peculiar Anglo-Saxon cousins
My country is a confederacy. How it works here is that Alberta pays the bills, gets blamed for everything and is told to shut up.
That would be Britain’s role.
Oh look, a Pole. Now why do they love the EU so much? Hmm...
he is sounding more and more like the anti-Christ every day.
Prussia no longer exists -- On 25 February 1947, representatives of the Allied occupation authorities in Berlin signed a law abolishing the state of PRussia
The Prussian state, which from early days has been a bearer of militarism and reaction in Germany, has de facto ceased to exist. Guided by the interests of preservation of peace and security of peoples, and with the desire to assure further reconstruction of the political life of Germany on a democratic basis, the Control Council enacts as follows:This was LAw # 46 of the allied control council that expunged Prussia from the map of Europe
ARTICLE I
The Prussian State together with its central government and all its agencies is abolished.
Churchill must be spinning 360s in his grave
April, your lack of knowledge is showing.
Did you, April Lexington know that the % of Moslems in the EU is 3% -- granted 3% is 3% too high, but hardly "nothing but MOslems"
April, your lack of knowledge is showing.
firstly, the iPhone, while a great marketing tool, didn't invent any new component -- there were smartphones and even touch-screen phones before. Apples brought its skills at simplifying existing technologies to fore here
However, let's look at some of the things that were "invented" in the EU -- and look at Apple's predecessor at the top of the mobile phone manufacturers heap: Nokia from Finland was successful for years. Then, Skype was invented in Estonia. You are correct that Europe is nowhere near the US's levels of inventiveness, but one advantage the US has is a huge market, which is what the EU is out to emulate
As for Finance -- you do realise that London is getting a run for its money from Singapore and Dubai. In Europe you have Euronext and Deutsche Bourse behind London.
London is a great financial center, yes, but if the UK leaves the EU, then these days are numbered.
The world does not "speak English" -- you do realize that it is third in the number of native speakers after Mandarin and Hindi? And while it is first among total speakers, that has no relevance to "rule the world" -- for centuries Aramaic was the lingua franca even though the Arameans were a conquered people.
Ditto for Hellenic -- the language of initially conquerors, later the conquered became a lingua franca. Ditto for Hejazi -- first they conquered the world but then for centuries were ruled from the Levant and by Turkic peoples
The fact that 400 million people across the world speak english means that the citizens of Britain can't use it as their advantage
you do realise that only the UK, Canada and Australia and New Zealand use common law exactly? The other pats of the Anglosphere are "based" on common law, but diverge -- and in the case of the US, Louisiana law is based on French civil law
And Scotland does not follow common law either....
True and many Brits have moved to Spain, Germany, France and even Central Europe. I know many English friends who've moved to Austrlia and New Zealand.
And Bangladesh, Oz, NZ are not in Europe
The fact of the matter is that England once did rule the waves -- quite well indeed -- but that time is over and its time to face realities: the UK does better to co-rule within the EU than to smoulder and disintegrate outside the EU
But this is not "British" any more, not any more than it is from Hammurabi (from whence it all originates)
And that has no relevance to the point that the UK will decline outside the EU.
What you are arguing is that you want to make England the 51st state. THAT would work, but nothing else besides staying in the EU would work
Let me repeat what I posted above: The UK already has 24% of employees working in the Public sector -- compare that to Germany with just 15% or France with 20%. The UK's public sector even more than Italys (17%)
And the Scots are unhappy that this number of 24% is after cuts by the tories -- they want it back up to 27%
The UK already has a larger welfare organization than many other EU countries, so what are you talking about?
April, your lack of knowledge is showing. Why does Germany have a trade surplus with China if they don't make much of anything?
Why did it have a $13 billion surplus last year (with all imports-exports)?
In terms of things they make, let's take some
I would suggest you check the exports of Germany before dismissing them
April, do you live in Germany to make that kind of judgement call?
And what gave you the idea that they want British soldiers specifically?
right now they do have a say in those rules and a veto power -- if they leave then they have to keep the rules to trade with the EU and they lose any ability to have a say in those rules
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