Martin
Spam, wonderful spam (bloody vikings!)
That makes you Scottish, and therefore an insurrectionist.
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That makes you Scottish, and therefore an insurrectionist.
Martin
Spam, wonderful spam (bloody vikings!)
It's part of his look, apparently. A sort of middle-class Trump mini-me.
Altfish
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And proud to be one.
Martin
Spam, wonderful spam (bloody vikings!)
Damn colonials, not a gentleman among them. Not like us Irish, at all, at all.
I agree,Andrew will be cut off and sink if found guilty (I think most believe he is),Bojo has has to go too but how can you be embarrassed by 2 people out of 76 million?,Britain isn’t a laughing stock at all.
I think a ship takes time to make a turn. Brexit has just barely changed course.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'm not much for living in a surveillance/police state. Admittedly we Yanks are not very far behind.
anna.
but mostly it's the same
No he's still desperately trying to maintain relevance and he's fading even while MAGA/QAnon rolls on without him. History will show that without meaning to, Twitter saved us.
Because in some countries healthcare is free (Scandinavia, Italy, Spain) and in other countries it is not.
RestlessSoul
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Altfish
Veteran Member
I'm embarrased to say which country I'm from. I go to Scotland regularly, when they hear my accent, I have to say, "I voted Remain, I hate the Tories"
Altfish
Veteran Member
We weren't told that BEFORE the vote. It was sunlit uplands from day 1
Altfish
Veteran Member
But when I was in the EU, it was free in all EU countries for me.
That is the reason why we should convince Germany and France to implement the NHS model.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
Well now. To play devil's advocate, because I certainly didn't want us to leave; I've always been pretty relaxed about immigration too. But the constant supply of cheap labour from Eastern Europe over the last decade or so, has allowed the bad employers to undercut the good. Now that the labour supply has slowed, employers have had to rethink their strategies, increase wages, and start treating their existing staff with a bit more respect. So there has already been that palpable benefit for working class people, from which members of my own family have profited.
Then there's the reduction in the cost of private rental tenancies in London, which means that for the first time in a generation, young Londoners can actually afford to set up home in the city they were born in. I don't know how or if that's reflected in the rest of the country, but another thing I've noticed is a lot more Geordie and Welsh accents in the capital than recently; I can only assume this means it's once again economically viable - though not ideal - for people from economically depressed regions in the UK, to come here for work during the week, and return home at the weekends. Again, the unlimited supply of cheap labour from Eastern Europe, had previously priced out tradesmen from places like NE England.
So let's have it right. I see all the downsides to Brexit, including the beaurocratic aggravation it has caused my French partner. But there are things to be put on the other page of the ledger. Lastly, I advise anyone tempted to romanticise the EU and it's institutions, to read Yanis Varoufakis' account of the Greek debt crisis, Adults In The Room. That'll soon disabuse the reader of any notion of the EU as it exists in practice, being a family of nations.
Kooky
Freedom from Sanity
Where did you get the idea from that citizens of third party states cannot live in EU countries?
Of course, they need residence permits, which is trivial to get if you're a millionair (almost any EU country has special residency and citizenship provisions for celebrities and "investors").
So the UK really showed all those millionaire elites what's what didn't it?
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kaninchen
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So, now they'll only be falling behind rocketing inflation a bit less.
kaninchen
Member
Thank goodness the plutocratic elites have been so helpful in the battle against the millionaire elites.
Altfish
Veteran Member
btw I'm still waiting for that list of benefits of leaving the EU