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Sorry, you've lost me - what world view is that and how is this against it?

But - as Brexiters have pointed out on numerous occasions, the EU is a dictatorship. One simply can't disobey the rules. And even the more moderate Leavers have complained non-stop about the interventions of the ECJ. So saying that nobody bothers to follow the rules is ridiculous - unless you're trying to impute that the EU has picked on the UK whilst leaving everyone else alone?

I must say, though - I'm not at all surprised that this attitude exists. My experience of reading balderdash about Portugal continually flouting EU law over one matter or another on this and other forums is proof absolute of the fact that many people simply don't care about the truth, even when it is pointed out to them on numerous occasions, with evidence, and they have absolutely no solid basis on which to continue their misapprehension. Just trot it all out again at the next available opportunity. Job done. There's even an English language newspaper that specialises in this kind of half-baked nonsense, the Bible of the bashers.

I see absolutely nothing in any detail at all so it's extremely difficult to say whether it is or isn't compliant but I'm sure that they wouldn't have spent months working on something that they know to be non-compliant and that if it is the ECJ will rule against them once a case is brought. If the government is proposing denying that same welfare to its own citizens on the same basis as well, then it's compliant.

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See, this is the problem with your end-end delusion.

The fact, is, that since the pound has tanked, those products simply cost more in Britain. Tesco says that cost should be absorbed by Unilever. Unilever, a non-British company, says no, you need to raise your prices. Tesco [arrogantly] says, OK, then we'll drop your products.

This is suspiciously consistent with all of the delusions of the Brexit campaign. We chose this path, but don't expect to have to suffer any consequences. That's "somebody else's problem", and if they don't accept it, then they're "unpatriotic". They're all just a bunch of foreigners, after all.

Anyway it's hardly unexpected:
Retailers warn government of Brexit price rises - BBC News


I wonder how many other products Tesco will be willing to drop.

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Several years earlier (late 80s) my geologist mates and I rescued three big mamas from the in-flood Crocodile River. We were transferring our gear across a rope bridge when three of them crossed at the same time loaded up with provisions. Their combined weight was enough to cause the bridge to get caught by the raging waters below flipping the bridge over, trapping one bloke in the ropes (fortunately someone was able to free him), snapping the ropes and throwing the women into the rushing water. We saw this and ran downstream ahead of them and were able to form a human chain to scoop them out of the water as they passed by. It was a very tribal area and one of the women turned out to be one of the local headman's wives. We were treated like kings for the rest of the time we worked in the area after that! :D

...More than 25 years on I still miss the high adventure and exhilaration, living on the edge in Africa.

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Yup - it's always going to be someone else's fault isn't it? Leave voters WILL NOT be wrong. Whatever happens from now on HAS TO BE GOOD to a leaver - because they voted for it.

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Happy days hey? :)

Sad to say Africa (especially southern Africa) has changed so much in the intervening years..... and not for the better.

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I don't suppose anyone is foolish enough to believe this any more but...

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...54&oe=5866A0CE

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Beautiful plumage.

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SNP's Nicola Sturgeon announces new independence referendum bill

SNP's Nicola Sturgeon announces new independence referendum bill - BBC News

Possibly an extra Brexit bonus? :thumbsup:

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Sounds good to me!

Bwahahahahahaha

Scotland's a bigger economic basket case than Greece | Daily Mail Online

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Another set of stinkin' foreigners to get rid of in the process.

Has NI said anything about joining Ireland yet? That dodgy bunch needs to go, too.

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That's the only way the NI-RoI border isn't going to change.

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Whilst I fail to understand why the Poison Dwarf wants to leave a democratic union & join an undemocratic one an independent Scotland as an EU member state would be the perfect solution for the Remoaniacs who could if they wished go & live there.

They'll have both the Euro & the EU, several mad dictators to choose from & to top it all off, 40% VAT.

And us Brexiters would be shot of 'em. - Lovely! :)

Pure heaven for all concerned! :)

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The reason you find it so difficult is that you're basing it all on a false premise.

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What about the Brexshitters who have been so adamant they want the sovereign UK out of the undemocratic dictatorial EU and then insist on continuing to live within the undemocratic dictatorship? And not only in the EU but also in the dreaded Schengen and Euro zones, to boot.

What I fail to understand is what's their perfect solution? I can think of at least one which would erase that particular hypocrisy.

:confused: More shot of them than you are, living in Portugal?