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[fuchsntf]

On 04/06/2019 at 11:40, Foxin_Mad said:

Also depressing how the leader of her majesty's opposition sees fit not to attend a state banquet with the president of the most powerful country on Earth.

 

Whether you agree with what Trump has done and does, the UK needs a trading relationship with America, upsetting a country where a lot of our trade and investment come from is just dumb. He was democratically elected by the US public. 

 

Corbyn is of course happy to meet with Hezbollah, Hamas, Numerous Russians, The Chinese, South American countries, Iran who all have questionable records with Human rights/equality, the first few are just out right terrorist organisations. 

 

The man is a joke, I have no idea how anyone could put a cross next to the Labour Party with him as leader. 

This..!!!

Exactly what I thought as I heard it on the news....

you attend the ba nquette,then according to diplomacy,let your thoughts be known,later in the weeks other meets!!!

If Corbyn got in,how is he going to be a good ambassador for his party and the UK. Government,when meeting the Americans in their own backyard!!

I am a socialist,would vote normally labour...but 20years of poor leadership,I would be a voter without a ship to board...

 

[Facecloth]

The Brexit bus has been updated.

 

[Nick]

3 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

The Brexit bus has been updated.

 

That kind of sovereignty just makes me feel like a free man.

 

Seriously though - I very much doubt the above will happen but what might be interesting and worth looking in to is the supply of American based healthcare equipment and machinery.

[Bobby Hundreds]

6 minutes ago, Swan Lesta said:

Seriously though - I very much doubt the above will happen but what might be interesting and worth looking in to is the supply of American based healthcare equipment and machinery.

 

The NHS currently does use US companies for medical equipment, but they have to abide by EU tender directives https://www.ojeu.eu/ which allow fairness, transparency and ensures employees rights are not being shafted. The brexiteer mob are desperate to remove these "bureaucratic" mechanisms and have a get rich quick sell-off.

[Kopfkino]

It is incredible how you can make any old shit up (£350m, privatisation, hours from collapse) and put it alongside the 3 letter NHS and the whole country will lap it up in a frenzy. It must be one of the most successful examples of branding anywhere ever. 

[MC Prussian]

A CDU politician shot in Germany this past weekend.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/03/german-local-politician-from-angela-merkel-party-found-dead

 

Really curious to find out what the motive was, and that it won't reek of the 1920ies in Germany.

[Alf Bentley]

1 hour ago, MC Prussian said:

A CDU politician shot in Germany this past weekend.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/03/german-local-politician-from-angela-merkel-party-found-dead

 

Really curious to find out what the motive was, and that it won't reek of the 1920ies in Germany.

 

A bit concerning, though I know such one-off killings can happen to all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons (domestic, personal feuds, criminality etc.).

Clearly sounds like murder, not suicide, though, and we don't often see politicians murdered in the West.

 

Let us know if further news emerges.

[Guest]

I see that Marion Le Pen (the young cute one - but just as crazy) want the centre right and RN to join forces.

[Countryfox]

23 minutes ago, FIF said:

I see that Marion Le Pen (the young cute one - but just as crazy) want the centre right and RN to join forces.

 

The navy would never agree to it ...    surely !?! ....   

[Guest SO1]

3 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

A CDU politician shot in Germany this past weekend.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/03/german-local-politician-from-angela-merkel-party-found-dead

 

Really curious to find out what the motive was, and that it won't reek of the 1920ies in Germany.

How can it not eventually reek of 1920's Germany. With thanks to the Evil Rich and their totalitarian suveillance state violence is coming for us all.

Humans, the absolute dumbest creatures in the Universe. Again.

[The Guvnor]

EU moves to punish Italy over mounting debt, a potential head scratcher for Salvini and fellow Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio if it goes ahead.

[Countryfox]

4 minutes ago, The Guvnor said:

EU moves to punish Italy over mounting debt, a potential head scratcher for Salvini and fellow Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio if it goes ahead.

 

We’d be better off out of this mess ...    hang on a minute ! ...

[Lionator]

An amazing gentleman on Channel 4 news (no not Jon Snow) just now. He was supposed to be flying a plane for the Normandy invasion on June 6th 1944 however developed tonsilitis the evening before. He was signed off sick that night and his entire squadron was taken out the next day. How you ever recover from that, I have no idea. 

 

[Guest SO1]

57 minutes ago, The Guvnor said:

EU moves to punish Italy over mounting debt, a potential head scratcher for Salvini and fellow Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio if it goes ahead.

Sounds like a phone call to China and Russia are in order. You know the Adults in the room.

It's that or end up like Greece and starve to death at the hands of the Bankers and Finance industry.

 https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-massive-belt-and-road-initiative 

Edited 5 June 2019 by SO1

[Dr The Singh]

21 minutes ago, Lionator said:

An amazing gentleman on Channel 4 news (no not Jon Snow) just now. He was supposed to be flying a plane for the Normandy invasion on June 6th 1944 however developed tonsilitis the evening before. He was signed off sick that night and his entire squadron was taken out the next day. How you ever recover from that, I have no idea. 

 

Easy, celebrate life, as a lucky so and so.

[Buce]

41 minutes ago, Lionator said:

An amazing gentleman on Channel 4 news (no not Jon Snow) just now. He was supposed to be flying a plane for the Normandy invasion on June 6th 1944 however developed tonsilitis the evening before. He was signed off sick that night and his entire squadron was taken out the next day. How you ever recover from that, I have no idea. 

 

 

A course of antibiotics usually does the trick.

[David Guiza]

Saw this crop up on Twitter yesterday, which was a refreshing change from veterans being used as pawns by certain groups. I'm not suggesting that the gentleman in question speaks for everyone of his age/background, but his reasoning is a large contributor as to why I voted remain and continue to back remain. 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vote-d-day-anniversary-veterans-ww2-eu-europe-a8946046.html 

 

“I can’t help feeling that it would be an awful shame if what we’ve gone to so much trouble to do, to collect the European big nations together, to break it all up now would be a crying shame,” said Mr Chardin, 94, from Cambridge, in a BBC interview at the 75th anniversary commemorations in Portsmouth.

 

Issuing a call for a Final Say referendum on Brexit, the signatories to the letter - published in The Independent - said that the EU should take credit for helping keep the peace in Europe.

 

 

[Strokes]

31 minutes ago, David Guiza said:

Saw this crop up on Twitter yesterday, which was a refreshing change from veterans being used as pawns by certain groups. I'm not suggesting that the gentleman in question speaks for everyone of his age/background, but his reasoning is a large contributor as to why I voted remain and continue to back remain. 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vote-d-day-anniversary-veterans-ww2-eu-europe-a8946046.html 

 

“I can’t help feeling that it would be an awful shame if what we’ve gone to so much trouble to do, to collect the European big nations together, to break it all up now would be a crying shame,” said Mr Chardin, 94, from Cambridge, in a BBC interview at the 75th anniversary commemorations in Portsmouth.

 

Issuing a call for a Final Say referendum on Brexit, the signatories to the letter - published in The Independent - said that the EU should take credit for helping keep the peace in Europe.

 

 

Yeah no point listening to that old geriatric though because it ain’t his future, so his vote and opinion doesn’t count remember.

[Buce]

1 minute ago, Strokes said:

Yeah no point listening to that old geriatric though because it ain’t his future, so his vote and opinion doesn’t count remember.

 

Kinell. 

 

Have they banned you from the beach already?

[David Guiza]

1 minute ago, Strokes said:

Yeah no point listening to that old geriatric though because it ain’t his future, so his vote and opinion doesn’t count remember.

This one is different, he knows what he's talking about.

 

I just hope a certain breed of Brexiteers take this chaps words on board when reciting their rhetoric about what the 'heroes fought for'. 

[Strokes]

26 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

Kinell. 

 

Have they banned you from the beach already?

Getting ready for the wedding mate

 

[Carl the Llama]

6 hours ago, David Guiza said:

This one is different, he knows what he's talking about.

 

I just hope a certain breed of Brexiteers take this chaps words on board when reciting their rhetoric about what the 'heroes fought for'. 

Nah the heroes fought for whatever today's hot populists want you to think.

[Heathrow fox]

9 hours ago, David Guiza said:

Saw this crop up on Twitter yesterday, which was a refreshing change from veterans being used as pawns by certain groups. I'm not suggesting that the gentleman in question speaks for everyone of his age/background, but his reasoning is a large contributor as to why I voted remain and continue to back remain. 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vote-d-day-anniversary-veterans-ww2-eu-europe-a8946046.html 

 

“I can’t help feeling that it would be an awful shame if what we’ve gone to so much trouble to do, to collect the European big nations together, to break it all up now would be a crying shame,” said Mr Chardin, 94, from Cambridge, in a BBC interview at the 75th anniversary commemorations in Portsmouth.

 

Issuing a call for a Final Say referendum on Brexit, the signatories to the letter - published in The Independent - said that the EU should take credit for helping keep the peace in Europe.

 

 

The main culprits,the UK France and Germany are never going to kick off with each other again.At least not without US and Russian involvement.That would be the last thing anybody did.Thats deterent enough.EU not needed on that one.

 

Of course there could be trade wars or a scenario where a load of countries gang up on a particular nation and enforce sanctions.The sort of thing the EU would do if you don’t follow the rules.Democracy and a steady rise in living standards keeps the peace.

[WigstonWanderer]

1 hour ago, Heathrow fox said:

The main culprits,the UK France and Germany are never going to kick off with each other again.At least not without US and Russian involvement.That would be the last thing anybody did.Thats deterent enough.EU not needed on that one.

 

Of course there could be trade wars or a scenario where a load of countries gang up on a particular nation and enforce sanctions.The sort of thing the EU would do if you don’t follow the rules.Democracy and a steady rise in living standards keeps the peace.

With the current rise of right wing populism across the continent and elsewhere you just never know where the next jackboots are coming from.

Dangerous times.

[Guest MattP]

On 05/06/2019 at 13:20, Kopfkino said:

It is incredible how you can make any old shit up (£350m, privatisation, hours from collapse) and put it alongside the 3 letter NHS and the whole country will lap it up in a frenzy. It must be one of the most successful examples of branding anywhere ever. 

And this is only up until 2015.....