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Re: PM Boris
Had a pleasant flight on a RAF VC10 out of Brize back in '73' to Washington DC via Ottawa (refuelling) on my way to join an RN war canoe in the West Indies. Good times.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by macadian
(Post 12736930)
Had a pleasant flight on a RAF VC10 out of Brize back in '73' to Washington DC via Ottawa (refuelling) on my way to join an RN war canoe in the West Indies. Good times.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12736929)
Yes, they're nice planes. Think I went on one when I was a kid.
Didn't know there's an Aldergrove in NI. There's a town by that name in BC, Canada, and I always thought that was an original Canadian name. |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12736933)
War canoe ?
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 12736934)
wonderfully inaccurately named Belfast International Airport
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 12737000)
Two Livers, innit?
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 12737005)
Sorry, you've lost me :o
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Re: PM Boris
I think I flew to Hong Kong as a a small child on an RAF VC10 out of BZZ (well, I know I flew to Hong Kong, I think it would've been on a VC10). Several stops along the way, I think at Akrotiri, Gan (Maldives) and Singapore.
Two Livers has the naming honour of Belfast City airport. |
Re: PM Boris
I'd like to thank everyone for a truly epic thread drift that, unknowingly I instigated with my post-brexit-attempt-at-a-funny. Thread drifting is one of the best things about BE....:rofl:
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 12737250)
I'd like to thank everyone for a truly epic thread drift that, unknowingly I instigated with my post-brexit-attempt-at-a-funny. Thread drifting is one of the best things about BE....:rofl:
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Re: PM Boris
Sometimes its better for countries to look after their own affairs. Countries differ culturally and the way they manage their own affairs. Nato has kept peace in Europe since WW2 not the European Union. Verhofstadt wants a new world order and Empire to "stand up to Empires like US,China and Russia." His words not mine. Obviously he sees them as a threat which is amusing because he sounded like an Empire builder himself at the Lib Dem conference. If other nations were fed up of empires a century ago why is the EU trying to build another one. Total globalisation and open borders might not be the perfect answer. Its great in theory but so are a lot of things in life. I love Europe and the people and some of my European friends would rather their own sovereignty back to. I have a Spanish friend who feels strangulated by the EU with plenty of work building houses but no one has any money to pay him. Tell that to the EU civil servants with good salaries and pensions, an institution that costs the EU tax payer a fortune. What about deflation in the EU. Is Germany heading for a recession. Who is going to prop up all the EU spending it has planned now and in the future? I notice in Nova Scotia if they can't afford it they don't spend it. Free trade and travel is a great idea but handing over the keys of your house for someone else to look after could be looking for trouble.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737332)
Sometimes its better for countries to look after their own affairs. Countries differ culturally and the way they manage their own affairs. Nato has kept peace in Europe since WW2 not the European Union. Verhofstadt wants a new world order and Empire to "stand up to Empires like US,China and Russia." His words not mine. Obviously he sees them as a threat which is amusing because he sounded like an Empire builder himself at the Lib Dem conference. If other nations were fed up of empires a century ago why is the EU trying to build another one. Total globalisation and open borders might not be the perfect answer. Its great in theory but so are a lot of things in life. I love Europe and the people and some of my European friends would rather their own sovereignty back to. I have a Spanish friend who feels strangulated by the EU with plenty of work building houses but no one has any money to pay him. Tell that to the EU civil servants with good salaries and pensions, an institution that costs the EU tax payer a fortune. What about deflation in the EU. Is Germany heading for a recession. Who is going to prop up all the EU spending it has planned now and in the future? I notice in Nova Scotia if they can't afford it they don't spend it. Free trade and travel is a great idea but handing over the keys of your house for someone else to look after could be looking for trouble.
Atlantic Canada is, of course, subsidized by the affluence of other Provinces; we might see Nova Scotia as Wales in an EU analogy. |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737332)
Sometimes its better for countries to look after their own affairs. Countries differ culturally and the way they manage their own affairs. Nato has kept peace in Europe since WW2 not the European Union. Verhofstadt wants a new world order and Empire to "stand up to Empires like US,China and Russia." His words not mine. Obviously he sees them as a threat which is amusing because he sounded like an Empire builder himself at the Lib Dem conference. If other nations were fed up of empires a century ago why is the EU trying to build another one. Total globalisation and open borders might not be the perfect answer. Its great in theory but so are a lot of things in life. I love Europe and the people and some of my European friends would rather their own sovereignty back to. I have a Spanish friend who feels strangulated by the EU with plenty of work building houses but no one has any money to pay him. Tell that to the EU civil servants with good salaries and pensions, an institution that costs the EU tax payer a fortune. What about deflation in the EU. Is Germany heading for a recession. Who is going to prop up all the EU spending it has planned now and in the future? I notice in Nova Scotia if they can't afford it they don't spend it. Free trade and travel is a great idea but handing over the keys of your house for someone else to look after could be looking for trouble.
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Re: PM Boris
Thanks for your reply, I do see your point of our close ties to Europe. I think most developed countries are pretty much all connected through technology, different world organisations and treaties to deal with the points you mention without having an extra cost of an EU parliament, army, embassies etc..I don't know what the cost of renegotiating deals with the EU will cost but either way it'll come as a cost to the UK wether the UK will stay in or out. If the UK stayed in the people may as well just for one parliament in Brussels, one currency and a federal EU state, scrap Westminster, the Scottish, Welsh and NI assemblies. There won't be much your local MP can do for you anyway according to a certain MP so may be just use the MEPs if one has issues. I think the gains are being in control of ones own affairs good or bad. The EU does seem very bureaucratic and restrictive in what member states can do. This also leads to countries breaking EU rules because of the constraints imposed by the EU.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737355)
Thanks for your reply, I do see your point of our close ties to Europe. I think most developed countries are pretty much all connected through technology, different world organisations and treaties to deal with the points you mention without having an extra cost of an EU parliament, army, embassies etc..I don't know what the cost of renegotiating deals with the EU will cost but either way it'll come as a cost to the UK wether the UK will stay in or out. If the UK stayed in the people may as well just for one parliament in Brussels, one currency and a federal EU state, scrap Westminster, the Scottish, Welsh and NI assemblies. There won't be much your local MP can do for you anyway according to a certain MP so may be just use the MEPs if one has issues. I think the gains are being in control of ones own affairs good or bad. The EU does seem very bureaucratic and restrictive in what member states can do. This also leads to countries breaking EU rules because of the constraints imposed by the EU.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737355)
Thanks for your reply, I do see your point of our close ties to Europe. I think most developed countries are pretty much all connected through technology, different world organisations and treaties to deal with the points you mention without having an extra cost of an EU parliament, army, embassies etc..I don't know what the cost of renegotiating deals with the EU will cost but either way it'll come as a cost to the UK wether the UK will stay in or out. If the UK stayed in the people may as well just for one parliament in Brussels, one currency and a federal EU state, scrap Westminster, the Scottish, Welsh and NI assemblies. There won't be much your local MP can do for you anyway according to a certain MP so may be just use the MEPs if one has issues. I think the gains are being in control of ones own affairs good or bad. The EU does seem very bureaucratic and restrictive in what member states can do. This also leads to countries breaking EU rules because of the constraints imposed by the EU.
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Re: PM Boris
Why is it gibberish?
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737355)
There won't be much your local MP can do for you anyway according to a certain MP so may be just use the MEPs if one has issues. I think the gains are being in control of ones own affairs good or bad. The EU does seem very bureaucratic and restrictive in what member states can do.
Forgive me if this should be obvious, I'm trying to establish what, if anything, is the practical case for Brexit. I don't think there is one. |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737355)
Thanks for your reply, I do see your point of our close ties to Europe. I think most developed countries are pretty much all connected through technology, different world organisations and treaties to deal with the points you mention without having an extra cost of an EU parliament, army, embassies etc..I don't know what the cost of renegotiating deals with the EU will cost but either way it'll come as a cost to the UK wether the UK will stay in or out. If the UK stayed in the people may as well just for one parliament in Brussels, one currency and a federal EU state, scrap Westminster, the Scottish, Welsh and NI assemblies. There won't be much your local MP can do for you anyway according to a certain MP so may be just use the MEPs if one has issues. I think the gains are being in control of ones own affairs good or bad. The EU does seem very bureaucratic and restrictive in what member states can do. This also leads to countries breaking EU rules because of the constraints imposed by the EU.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12737362)
...We all have smartphones now...
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 12737376)
See bolded bits. Gibberish.
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Re: PM Boris
The EU does have embassies set up in countries around the world, not in use as of yet. Check it out I don't think its gibberish
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737380)
The EU does have embassies set up in countries around the world, not in use as of yet. Check it out I don't think its gibberish
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Re: PM Boris
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...the-world.html
Take a read. Also Ireland voted twice to push through the Lisbon treaty because they voted against it and was ignored by the powers to be.Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008To permit the state to ratify the Treaty of LisbonLocationhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...reland.svg.png IrelandDate12 June 2008ResultsVotes%https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._check.svg.png Yes752,45146.60%https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...X_mark.svg.png No862,41553.40%Valid votes1,614,86699.62%Invalid or blank votes6,1710.38%Total votes1,621,037100.00%Registered voters/turnout3,051,27853.13%Results by constituencyhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...of_Ireland.png Yes Nohttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...t-IRL-2008.jpg Result and turnout for the referendumThe Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008 (bill no. 14 of 2008) was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Ireland that was put to a referendum in 2008 (the first Lisbon referendum). The purpose of the proposed amendment was to allow the state to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon of the European Union. The amendment was rejected by voters on 12 June 2008 by a margin of 53.4% to 46.6%, with a turnout of 53.1%.[1] The treaty had been intended to enter into force on 1 January 2009, but had to be delayed following the Irish rejection. However, the Lisbon treaty was approved by Irish voters when the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the constitution was approved in the second Lisbon referendum, held in October 2009. They obviously didn't know what they were voting for! |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737380)
The EU does have embassies set up in countries around the world, not in use as of yet. Check it out I don't think its gibberish
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Re: PM Boris
Yes, but the EU is technically not a country.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737332)
Sometimes its better for countries to look after their own affairs. Countries differ culturally and the way they manage their own affairs. Nato has kept peace in Europe since WW2 not the European Union. Verhofstadt wants a new world order and Empire to "stand up to Empires like US,China and Russia." His words not mine. Obviously he sees them as a threat which is amusing because he sounded like an Empire builder himself at the Lib Dem conference. If other nations were fed up of empires a century ago why is the EU trying to build another one. Total globalisation and open borders might not be the perfect answer. Its great in theory but so are a lot of things in life. I love Europe and the people and some of my European friends would rather their own sovereignty back to. I have a Spanish friend who feels strangulated by the EU with plenty of work building houses but no one has any money to pay him. Tell that to the EU civil servants with good salaries and pensions, an institution that costs the EU tax payer a fortune. What about deflation in the EU. Is Germany heading for a recession. Who is going to prop up all the EU spending it has planned now and in the future? I notice in Nova Scotia if they can't afford it they don't spend it. Free trade and travel is a great idea but handing over the keys of your house for someone else to look after could be looking for trouble.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737409)
Yes, but the EU is technically not a country.
Do we need a buzzword bingo expansion pack? |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Colognia
(Post 12737409)
Yes, but the EU is technically not a country.
Suppose for a moment though that the EU is planning a string of embassies purporting to represent the interests of all the countries of the EU; how is that an argument for not being part of the EU? |
Re: PM Boris
Think Boris, Mogg and co have a plan for the UK as shewn in the Map below.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...12879c1417.jpg Note how Northumbria seem to grab some North Sea Oil. |
Re: PM Boris
It would seem that recent opinion poles put BoJo well ahead of comrade Corbyn. Everyday is a school day....
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Re: PM Boris
I've read the posts today, and I've seen succinct comments like 'Bilge' and 'Gibberish' and requests for 'evidence' etc.
Easy to say, but what I haven't seen much of are reasoned arguments to support these comments. If you must use the literal equivalent of shouting down views you dislike then do the rest of us the courtesy of explaining why. |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by dave_j
(Post 12737467)
I've read the posts today, and I've seen succinct comments like 'Bilge' and 'Gibberish' and requests for 'evidence' etc.
Easy to say, but what I haven't seen much of are reasoned arguments to support these comments. If you must use the literal equivalent of shouting down views you dislike then do the rest of us the courtesy of explaining why. |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by dave_j
(Post 12737467)
I've read the posts today, and I've seen succinct comments like 'Bilge' and 'Gibberish' and requests for 'evidence' etc.
Easy to say, but what I haven't seen much of are reasoned arguments to support these comments. If you must use the literal equivalent of shouting down views you dislike then do the rest of us the courtesy of explaining why. |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12737492)
Not so much shouting down views as dismissing simplistic ill-informed comments.
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Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by dave_j
(Post 12737467)
I've read the posts today, and I've seen succinct comments like 'Bilge' and 'Gibberish' and requests for 'evidence' etc.
Easy to say, but what I haven't seen much of are reasoned arguments to support these comments. If you must use the literal equivalent of shouting down views you dislike then do the rest of us the courtesy of explaining why. And the literal equivalent on the internet is trying in all capitals. And what's wrong with asking for evidence of what you claim? |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by dave_j
(Post 12737494)
My case rests.
Your case likely wouldn't have seen the inside of a court room. |
Re: PM Boris
This was posted over on the dark side
There was an intellectual argument in 2016? Yes, here it is. |
Re: PM Boris
I'm guessing here but I suspect that you think this might be 'Fake News'. Am I right? |
Re: PM Boris
Originally Posted by dave_j
(Post 12738191)
Now let me guess.. is your middle name, for reasons we won't go into, Trump?
I'm guessing here but I suspect that you think this might be 'Fake News'. Am I right? |
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