A thank you to Brexiteers.

[Spymaster]

Does this mean essentially that you think the EU would not dare to get into a trade war with us because of how well tooled up we are militarily?

Pretty sure that's absolutely not what he meant.

 

[Pickman's model]

Does this mean essentially that you think the EU would not dare to get into a trade war with us because of how well tooled up we are militarily?

have you noticed that every time you start a post with 'does this mean' the answer is always no?

 

[kebabking]

Does this mean essentially that you think the EU would not dare to get into a trade war with us because of how well tooled up we are militarily?

No, I think that some members will be hugely reluctant to go down that path because of how poorly they, and those who make grandiose statements about such things, are tooled up.

As ever, 'the EU' is not monolithic - very different views and interests exist with the EU bodies, and the different member states.

 

[bimble]

No, I think that some members will be hugely reluctant to go down that path because of how poorly they, and those who make grandiose statements about such things, are tooled up.

As ever, 'the EU' is not monolithic - very different views and interests exist with the EU bodies, and the different member states.

Go on, ultimately if the EU as a whole had better resourced militaries then a trade war wound be likely but it hasn’t so it’s not?

Tbh I’ve always been the worst uncoolest kind of remainer, the kind who was worried about actual wars between European countries becoming a thing again.

 

[Ax^]

Yes and no - I disagree with your first point, but agree with your second.

I do not think the UK should threaten to remove it's NATO commitments, nor should it tie those commitments to other issues - however I think it would be a difficult sell to say that we will spend our resources defending people who refuse to sell us food.

and on St Crispens day


*shakes fist at sky

 

[kebabking]

and on St Crispens day


*shakes fist at sky

Hate the French as you hate the Devil.

 

[bimble]

Pretty sure that's absolutely not what he meant.

He just said that if they had more tanks and soldiers and stuff, then they'd be all up for a proper trade war against the Uk, which i don't really think is a different fishkettle its the same one.

 

[brogdale]

and on St Crispens day


*shakes fist at sky

Not till the 25th; I should know, I'm from Faversham.

 

[Ax^]

Hate the French as you hate the Devil.

but seriously who refusing to sell the uk food

thought it was the sorta of staff that making england let food rot and pigs go on the bonfire at farms

 

[Ax^]

Not till the 25th; I should know, I'm from Faversham.

i explain if anyone going to come out with mad little englander nonsense in future

i'm going add a comment of "and on St Crispens Day"

HTH

 

[bimble]

Anyway, we successfully declared a trade war on our selves with no outside intervention needed.

 

[brogdale]

i explain if anyone going to come out with mad little englander nonsense in future

i'm going add a comment of "and on St Crispens Day"

HTH

was inspired by the anti french feeling the papers brought up to distract from the fuel crisis last wek


am expecting hostilites with the spanish based around gibraltar when food shortage kick in around christmas

Well...you're getting closer, I suppose?

 

[Ax^]

only 12 days to go

 

[planetgeli]

I'm from Faversham.

Wonderful place. Stunning. Like Croydon.

 

[brogdale]

Wonderful place. Stunning. Like Croydon.

Good people in both, yes.

 

[kebabking]

seriously who refusing to sell the uk food

thought it was the sorta of staff that making england let food rot and pigs go on the bonfire at farms

During the negotiations did the EU not directly threaten that they would be 'unable' to sell us Insulin?

The remainiacs on here were positively pulling the middle out of themselves at the prospect of all those diabetics - northern, old, brexiteers - dieing, and how righteous the EU would be to bring about this great cull - well, if you'll not sell lifesaving medicines, then food is no great stretch....

 

[Ax^]

quite sure then worried about the logistics of shipping it to the united kingdom if a no deal brexit happened
not threaten to stop selling it

different story that was hypeboled with bollocks

 

[bimble]

quite sure then worried about the logistics of shipping it to the united kingdom
not threaten to stop selling it

No no, the evil foreigners and the remainiacs are all desperately hoping that brexit voters starve to death / die of preventable diseases, pay attention.

 

[kebabking]

quite sure then worried about the logistics of shipping it to the united kingdom if a no deal brexit happened
not threaten to stop selling it

different story that was hypeboled with bollocks

Nah, the logistics is bollocks - there's a train, it was simply a matter of will.

 

[Ax^]

ah ok and damn us remainiacs for not going out and picking cabbages and killing farm animals


all the get in the way of the new found Freedum we have

 

[kebabking]

No no, the evil foreigners and the remainiacs are all desperately hoping that brexit voters starve to death / die of preventable diseases, pay attention.

You've not read the Grinaud in the last 5 years have you?

 

[Pickman's model]

Hate the French as you hate the Devil.

the devil has all the best tunes

 

[Pickman's model]

You've not read the Grinaud in the last 5 years have you?

think she's read little but the guardian since the referendum

 

[Ax^]

Nah, the logistics is bollocks - there's a train, it was simply a matter of will.

i can tell you its a little bit more complicated than sticking shit on the train

 

[bimble]

The Uk should start producing its own insulin really, just in case. And try to have an agricultural sector that still exists in a year or two.

 

[Pickman's model]

Wonderful place. Stunning. Like Croydon.

croydon is stunning. stunning how those buildings got planning permission

 

[Flavour]

not sure. probably naples. step one is learn the language though.

As perhaps the only urbanite living in Italy... I can tell you with some fair degree of certainty: you don't want to live in Naples. You might think you do, but really you don't.

It regularly scores among the very worst places to live in Italy under pretty much any metric. Crime, environmental welfare, inequality, you name it -- Naples is down near the bottom of the list.

If you want somewhere close to the sea with angsty graffiti and cheap pizza I would go to Livorno, or Lecce, or Cagliari.

 

[Ax^]

The Uk should start producing its own insulin really, just in case. And try to have an agricultural sector that still exists in a year or two.

they do just not that much as needed

 

[Pickman's model]

As perhaps the only urbanite living in Italy... I can tell you with some fair degree of certainty: you don't want to live in Naples. You might think you do, but really you don't.

It regularly scores among the very worst places to live in Italy under pretty much any metric. Crime, environmental welfare, inequality, you name it -- Naples is down near the bottom of the list.

If you want somewhere close to the sea with angsty graffiti and cheap pizza I would go to Livorno, or Lecce, or Cagliari.

milan and bologna apparently worse for pickpockets / theft
and i don't want cheap pizza, i want good pizza

 

[Ax^]

has anyone suggested woking yet