A thank you to Brexiteers.

[brogdale]

Most the recent Turkish influx is the more secular end running away from Erodgen

Funnily enough, that's not what the Nazi cunt was shouting.

 

[The39thStep]

It wasn't just Turkey.

Aren’t most of those still on the EUs reserve list ?

 

[The39thStep]

which Gordon Brown moment? He had a few over different things over the years

The one where he was overhead to say ‘what a terrible woman’ after he was confronted by a Labour voter complaining about immigration .

 

[MrSki]

Aren’t most of those still on the EUs reserve list ?

Very possibly but before the UK left there was a veto that could block anyone joining.

 

[Pickman's model]

The one where he was overhead to say ‘what a terrible woman’ after he was confronted by a Labour voter complaining about immigration .

I'm not saying anyone's terrible

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Aren’t most of those still on the EUs reserve list ?

Turkey won't be joining the EU for decades if ever. The others on the list have a combined population of just over 10 million.

As usual when a question is asked rhetorically in a headline/slogan, the answer is 'no'.

 

[The39thStep]

Very possibly but before the UK left there was a veto that could block anyone joining.

Let’s face it it was nip and tuck that they let Greece join.

 

[brogdale]

The one where he was overhead to say ‘what a terrible woman’ after he was confronted by a Labour voter complaining about immigration .

"She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour" was the key phrase, I think.

 

[MrSki]

Let’s face it it was nip and tuck that they let Greece join.

It was probably the popularity of Greek holidays & ownership of Greek property that swung that one.

 

[editor]

To be concerned about immigration and FOM isn’t necessarily racist .

Mind that slippery slope.

 

[The39thStep]

Mind that slippery slope.

Mind the gap

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Mind that slippery slope.

Yup. One day you oppose open borders and the next you are goosestepping around the place.

That’s literally how it works..

 

[editor]

Yup. One day you oppose open borders and the next you are goosestepping around the place.

That’s literally how it works..

Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Thanks for sharing that.

I felt that I had to having read yours...

 

[mojo pixy]

I wonder if there are any other slippery slopes we should mind? Say, one that starts with people in the UK getting cheap consumer goods grown / made by poor people overseas, and ends at slavery and systemic racism for generations. Or one that starts with forever enemies and ends with no war but class war. Watch out for that one.

 

[Flavour]

Anyway if meat exports to the EU collapse that is a good thing, fuck meat

 

[The39thStep]

Take Back Control operated on so many levels, get brexit done less inspired, imo.

I keep thinking about how come there was such a massive majority to join in the 1st place, in the 70s, am amazed by it tbh, is anyone old enough to know how joining the EU was sold so well to the public back then?
(yes too lazy to google, it’s my bday and I’m painting the bathroom walls).

Cheaper washing machines and fresh croissants.

 

[The39thStep]

My memory (albeit only teenage) was that the arguments deployed to ratify the 1973 accession were more traditionally based in consolidating on the social contract; trade, business, jobs, incomes and security.

In all honesty what % of the electorate is in a position to analyse the merits of varying trade arrangements,

 

[Pickman's model]

Cheaper washing machines and fresh croissants.

Bigger toilets longer chains

 

[The39thStep]

Bigger toilets longer chains

Actually, I remember going to France around that time and being shocked at the toilets.

 

[gosub]

we are not post brexit. it will be ongoing for years and years

We are (just about) past peak Post-Brexit though

 

[Pickman's model]

So editor are you going to defend your claim it was all about immigration or have you slunk away again?

 

[Pickman's model]

Actually, I remember going to France around that time and being shocked at the toilets.

Some of them are in a shocking state

 

[brogdale]

Come on, you're better than

Even if we are after beer/wine o'clock, say what you mean/think.

 

[gosub]

Actually, I remember going to France around that time and being shocked at the toilets.

I remember getting used to Celtic tiger Irish pub loos then coming back to the UK and being appalled

 

[The39thStep]

Come on, you're better than

Even if we after beer/wine o'clock, say what you mean/think.

Not sure what the first bit of your second sentence means tbh. I just thought it odd that after posting something about voters not fully understanding the complexity of trade deals in the 2016 referendum that you came out with fully fledged analysis of the 1972 one from what you remembered as a teenager. My recollections of the referendum as a teenager was that overnight we would be eating European food and drinking from tables on the pavement.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

So editor are you going to defend your claim it was all about immigration or have you slunk away again?

I think we all know the answer to that question.

 

[brogdale]

Not sure what the first bit of your second sentence means tbh. I just thought it odd that after posting something about voters not fully understanding the complexity of trade deals in the 2016 referendum that you came out with fully fledged analysis of the 1972 one from what you remembered as a teenager. My recollections of the referendum as a teenager was that overnight we would be eating European food and drinking from tables on the pavement.

Inevitably memory from that time may well be unreliable, and I suspect that what I'm recalling is largely through the prism of what I heard from my family members who were old enough to vote in 1975. I vividly recall my Dad saying that he didn't know all the ins and outs of the matter but had a gut reaction (possibly typical of the war-child cohort?) that voting Yes to the EEC would mean that life would be better for me & the other kids.

That said, I do think that I remember the 'Yes' campaign as being very strongly focussed on jobs, pay, job security and living standards.

 

[Maggot]

My heart bleeds for this former Brexit party member who now wants compensation for the damage Brexit has done to his salmon smoking business.

Pro-Brexit salmon smoker Lance Forman wants industry compensated for Brexit-related costs

Lance Forman, a former Brexit Party member of the European Parliament, said that the UK government should compensate the seafood industry for Brexit-related dis

www.intrafish.com

 

[Pickman's model]

I think we all know the answer to that question.

brave sir robin ran away innit