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Referendum on Europe,
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Should the British public be allowed this referendum on Europe, and could this be Cameron's Waterloo?
Should the British public be allowed this referendum on Europe, and could this be Cameron's Waterloo?
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I dont think AOG gives a damn if DC is either, he is so anti-European.
I would just like to know how an a weenie non-entity state like England/Wales and NI survive as a stand-alone country in this day of global socio-economic-politico blocs - and a truly independent Scotland will be down the economic tubes a la Greece within the decade.
I would just like to know how an a weenie non-entity state like England/Wales and NI survive as a stand-alone country in this day of global socio-economic-politico blocs - and a truly independent Scotland will be down the economic tubes a la Greece within the decade.
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/// I would just like to know how an a weenie non-entity state like England/Wales and NI ///
So that's what you think of our country eh?
But that's not surprising coming from a person who was forever taunting me to come up with answers, and then when I did he was lost for an answer, in fact he was as 'silent as the grave'.
/// I would just like to know how an a weenie non-entity state like England/Wales and NI ///
So that's what you think of our country eh?
But that's not surprising coming from a person who was forever taunting me to come up with answers, and then when I did he was lost for an answer, in fact he was as 'silent as the grave'.
The EU will still be around in 10 years. The travails of some of the smaller nations are very serious but they won't cause the downfall of the EU.
Politically and economically the EU seems more necessary than ever as an entity/alliance whatever you call it, to match the US and the emerging powers of India, China etc.
Gromit is right: there isn't going to be a EU referendum in any case.
Politically and economically the EU seems more necessary than ever as an entity/alliance whatever you call it, to match the US and the emerging powers of India, China etc.
Gromit is right: there isn't going to be a EU referendum in any case.
Rojash, with all its faults, the difference with the US is that they are one country, and the people in America, all the ones i met, were proud to call themselves Americans, even though they came from someplace else.
The country wasn't cobbled together on the whim of a tyrant, but grew over many hundreds of years. Yugoslavia is a case in point, and the first opportunity to break apart they did, and with devastating consequences.
The country wasn't cobbled together on the whim of a tyrant, but grew over many hundreds of years. Yugoslavia is a case in point, and the first opportunity to break apart they did, and with devastating consequences.
The fact that we are not in the Euro should help matters. But political leaders these days seem to have no gumption. Maybe its because the back room advisors telling them leaving Europe would be too hard to get out of even though they have the majority of the population wanting a referendum to get out.
Instead if any action is taken it will be a half way house solution that causes even more problems.
Maybe its about time the politicians took advice from their constituents!
Instead if any action is taken it will be a half way house solution that causes even more problems.
Maybe its about time the politicians took advice from their constituents!
I rather preferred Greece before it was 'improved' with euro money and became more like everywhere else.
It wasn't as clean or as comfortable as it is now but it was different, exotic and an adventure and if you were prepared to take your drachmas and go to the trouble of riding a dodgy ferry out to the islands you could find fantastic, unspoiled islands.
It wasn't as clean or as comfortable as it is now but it was different, exotic and an adventure and if you were prepared to take your drachmas and go to the trouble of riding a dodgy ferry out to the islands you could find fantastic, unspoiled islands.
Having travelled around Greece some time ago, i can safely say it was unspoilt, fairly inexpensive, and with scenery to die for. Now that Greece has been a fully paid up, only joking, member of the EU for some time, lots has changed, not least the price of goods, land, and indeed the cost of living, which is what i heard from people on my travels just a couple of years ago. And from a Greek friend who has given me a blow by blow account of just how bad things are, and quite what will happen when
it goes pear shaped.
it goes pear shaped.