Blooming Personalities C/D 30Th November
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The Queen Is A Europhile
HM indicates which side of the EU fence she is on.
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It isn’t only the “Little Britishers” whom you insolently describe those on here who doubt the advantages of EU membership, DTC. This article is very interesting (and there are quite a few of similar ilk around):
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To save you ploughing through the whole lot, here’s a salient extract:
“If fundamental reform cannot be secured – and I am highly doubtful that it could be – then I believe the UK’s best interests would be served by leaving the EU,”
The article is an extract from a book “The Trouble with Europe” written by Roger Bootle. Of course it is your privilege to lump Mr Bootle in with the other “Little Britishers” but his book (which I have read) is a measured study of the advantages and disadvantages of EU membership. It focuses on the facts and avoids the usual hysteria and scaremongering that usually accompanies any suggestion of “Brexit”.
However, before you do that, you may care to examine his credentials. Roger Bootle is one of the City of London’s best-known economists. He runs the consultancy, Capital Economics, which specialises in macroeconomics and the economics of the property market. He is also Economic Adviser to Deloitte, a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was formerly Group Chief Economist of HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of Independent Economic Advisers.
So he probably knows a thing or two about such matters. Certainly more than me and possibly even more than you.
No, a unified Europe cannot be taken for granted, ichkeria. It has ot been achieved thusfar and the EU is the last institution likely to succeed in that aim.
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To save you ploughing through the whole lot, here’s a salient extract:
“If fundamental reform cannot be secured – and I am highly doubtful that it could be – then I believe the UK’s best interests would be served by leaving the EU,”
The article is an extract from a book “The Trouble with Europe” written by Roger Bootle. Of course it is your privilege to lump Mr Bootle in with the other “Little Britishers” but his book (which I have read) is a measured study of the advantages and disadvantages of EU membership. It focuses on the facts and avoids the usual hysteria and scaremongering that usually accompanies any suggestion of “Brexit”.
However, before you do that, you may care to examine his credentials. Roger Bootle is one of the City of London’s best-known economists. He runs the consultancy, Capital Economics, which specialises in macroeconomics and the economics of the property market. He is also Economic Adviser to Deloitte, a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was formerly Group Chief Economist of HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of Independent Economic Advisers.
So he probably knows a thing or two about such matters. Certainly more than me and possibly even more than you.
No, a unified Europe cannot be taken for granted, ichkeria. It has ot been achieved thusfar and the EU is the last institution likely to succeed in that aim.
I have never read so much cobblers in what Monsieur Bootle postulates and I am versed in his bull.....however, there is one argument that I do subscribe to and that is the economics of joining another economic trade group, that being NAFTA, as their eastern wing (and intersecting into the EU), NAFTA being the N.American Free Trade Assoc, namely, the USA, Canada and Mexico.
Heaven knows, they may even attract Iceland, Norway and the renegade Danes.....
No politician has yet to show me the economics of this - though I have asked a few such as Vince Cable, George Young and George Younger.......
Heaven knows, they may even attract Iceland, Norway and the renegade Danes.....
No politician has yet to show me the economics of this - though I have asked a few such as Vince Cable, George Young and George Younger.......
Who says we need to influence the EU? As one of 28 states we have little influence anyway.
And why does the UK leaving the EU mean war? What nonsense, the EU wont break up because we go. It will have to make significant adjustments though as effectively it will be down to the Germans to fund it.
The EU is now Germany. The Germans have, by stealth, achieved what they set out to do in 1939.
And why does the UK leaving the EU mean war? What nonsense, the EU wont break up because we go. It will have to make significant adjustments though as effectively it will be down to the Germans to fund it.
The EU is now Germany. The Germans have, by stealth, achieved what they set out to do in 1939.
"and why does the UK leaving the EU mean war? What nonsense"
It doesn't of course. But Europe has spent much of its history at war thand the idea of European union was to make that less likely.
That might seem unusual to us, as we have lived though a period where much of Europe has been divided along different lines, but it wasn't always like that, as someone of the Queen's age will remember vividly
It doesn't of course. But Europe has spent much of its history at war thand the idea of European union was to make that less likely.
That might seem unusual to us, as we have lived though a period where much of Europe has been divided along different lines, but it wasn't always like that, as someone of the Queen's age will remember vividly
"But Europe has spent much of its history at war "
and if this empire does comes into being how do you think it will end ?
there is peace in europe inspite of not because of the eussr and its plans.
how long before total takeover do you think it will be before the eussr want to harmonise the military ?
the last thing they need is the provinces still having control of their own military...
and if this empire does comes into being how do you think it will end ?
there is peace in europe inspite of not because of the eussr and its plans.
how long before total takeover do you think it will be before the eussr want to harmonise the military ?
the last thing they need is the provinces still having control of their own military...
formerly Group Chief Economist of HSBC
Is this the HSBC that is cutting 25,000 jobs and is pondering leaving Britain anyway, has bought off a money-laundering investigation, channelled a Fifa bribe, and was fined half a billion for rigging exchange rates?
Wiould I trust their chief economist with my granny's savings?
Is this the HSBC that is cutting 25,000 jobs and is pondering leaving Britain anyway, has bought off a money-laundering investigation, channelled a Fifa bribe, and was fined half a billion for rigging exchange rates?
Wiould I trust their chief economist with my granny's savings?
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