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Did you hear that rush of rapidly moving air? That wasn't Farage talking, so don't get excited, no, that was my post flying over your head.

Imagine? I'd say you most likely have first hand experience of what that feels like.

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The thinnest of thin veneers...

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No maybe I've no idea how it feels and I'd certainly not be inviting guests only to tell them to piss off back home again.

Not nice at all, Mrs Merkel.

There again with an election coming up soon and her failed policies about as welcome as a fart in a perfume shop........

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I thought that was why you voted the UK to leave (?). Funny, if Germany is so bad off, why isn't Germany begging to leave, too?

I suppose the fact that Germany has a larger, more robust economy, lower wealth disparity, a higher standard of living, and a lower crime rate, and I reckon it might have something to do with their cultural aversion to "uber-nationalist" mentality. Germans have been there, done that, and it failed miserably. But then again, "empire" thinking ultimately failed for England too.

Besides, working as part of a much larger, more powerful team always renders much more than the sum of the parts (as even the UK should know by now). But not everyone has the benefit of that understanding. Some just forget how they got where they are, and hide their discomforts behind a veil of pseudo nationalism. Oddly enough, that's what led Germany to its previous failure in the first place.

Oh well... Live and learn. Good luck with that.

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Did you hear that rush of air again?

I suppose you could now change the idiom to "as welcome as a foreigner in the UK".

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I think she wanted the job! She managed as the longest serving home secretary (in modern times) --not an easy job!

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Being such an expert on German politics it has obviously escaped Dicks notice that the leading opposition party is just a pro EU as Merkel .That his fellow travelling knuckle draggers will have little influence on the future direction of Germany.
Just as we saw in Holland and will see in France.

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Again the word "xenophobic", can you explain how an ambition to trade more with the rest of the world, with all of Europe not just 27 of its countries, to be as Mrs May said in her statement "global", --is "xenophobic"???

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I'm thinking that most of them in the rest of Europe would be over the moon to be as welcome and well integrated as those in the U.K.

Little wonder they risk their lives every day trying to cross the channel rather than trying to settle in countries like France.

:cool:

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Yeah. Bloody foreigners can't even take care of the bloody foreigners properly.

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You said it. :cool:

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May does not post on this forum or speak for her fellow ministers like Liam Fox or UKIP or the geriatric Euro sceptics on her back benches.

As the chairman of one of the UK manufacturing organisations said on BBC this morning " there has been nothing to stop UK companies exporting we just have to get better at it ".

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Trade has nothing to do with nationality, that's a complete non-sequitur and it's obvious bait to which I am not going to rise. Go try with someone else.

Whatever Ms. May says or does, you would have to be blind not to see that there was a very strong undercurrent of xenophobia running though the Leave campaign. Cancerous nationalists like Flange et al capitalized on the attitude of Britain First crowd and for some reason succeeded in railroading Cameron into calling the referendum.

Well that's a lie.

That veneer is getting thinner.

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Well, "trade with the world" was one of the [lesser] Brexit rationales, but Britain already trades with most of the world, so I reckon most people didn't really find that to be their foremost concern.

I've been watching Sky news today, and like any news outfit, they're out interviewing people on the street to get their reactions. The *vast* majority of those who support Brexit speak almost exclusively about aversion to foreigners in one way or another - although not necessarily in those words.

It's usually phrased something like "I just feel we have too many immigrants, and I think leaving the EU will make that better". Those that do talk about anything else seem to mention sovereignty and "making our own laws". I don't think anyone mentioned "trade with the rest of the world". I'd have to believe that's because Britain already does that, so it's just not on their minds.

Of course, by all accounts, Brexit won't change any of that (and likely will make it worse), but it seems that's what most average people in favour of Brexit are expecting: Less Foreigners.

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If ever there were a "whoosh"...