|
Best Porn Sites | Live Sex | Register | FAQ | Members List | Calendar |
Politics, Current Affairs, Religion Threads Post here for all Politics, Current Affairs, Religion Threads |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
March 29th, 2017, 06:27 PM | #1911 | |
Former Staff
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 16,579
Thanks: 452,836
Thanked 222,662 Times in 16,567 Posts
|
Quote:
The UK would have qualified at the time, but they wouldn't qualify today because of national debt. Their national debt at the time was a respectable 40% or so, but today it's more than doubled to around 90%, and increases every year, sort of like a mini-America, which doubled its own debt in around the same time |
|
The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to palo5 For This Useful Post: |
March 29th, 2017, 06:37 PM | #1912 | |
Former Staff
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 16,579
Thanks: 452,836
Thanked 222,662 Times in 16,567 Posts
|
Quote:
Why would the welfare bill be too big? |
|
The Following 6 Users Say Thank You to palo5 For This Useful Post: |
March 29th, 2017, 08:01 PM | #1913 | |
Veteran Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,282
Thanks: 11,393
Thanked 48,590 Times in 2,258 Posts
|
Quote:
Nevertheless they don't want to have the tax from "Apple" (... others too ...) for example. On which shoulders this is financed is clear now .
__________________
Don't forget to say To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. to your posters, don't just leech, be a member. |
|
The Following 7 Users Say Thank You to Puhbear69 For This Useful Post: |
March 29th, 2017, 08:26 PM | #1914 | |
13th Duke of Wybourne
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Me, Here? In a sixth-form girl's dormitory? At 3 in the morning? With my reputation?
Posts: 2,089
Thanks: 8,082
Thanked 21,965 Times in 2,076 Posts
|
Quote:
Would also help if the self-righteous cunt paid his taxes. https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...roup-coalition |
|
The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to vinceprince For This Useful Post: |
March 29th, 2017, 08:43 PM | #1915 | |
Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: England
Posts: 26,268
Thanks: 162,490
Thanked 278,846 Times in 26,213 Posts
|
Quote:
Wouldn't you like to join the Eurozone, Palo? You could vastly improve wages, for such people who can hold onto their jobs. If youth unemployment in your corner of the eurozone gets a bit excessive, as with Greece, Spain etc, just jack up conscription to three years from one year and the problem is solved.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
|
The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to scoundrel For This Useful Post: |
March 29th, 2017, 08:45 PM | #1916 | |
Former Staff
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Blighty
Posts: 113,905
Thanks: 260,011
Thanked 1,140,606 Times in 114,027 Posts
|
Quote:
__________________
RIP Doctor Who
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content |
|
The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to Wendigo For This Useful Post: |
March 29th, 2017, 09:20 PM | #1917 | |
Former Staff
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 16,579
Thanks: 452,836
Thanked 222,662 Times in 16,567 Posts
|
Quote:
We'll do good deals with all friendly neighbors & friends. That's what we always did, and always will |
|
March 29th, 2017, 09:51 PM | #1918 |
Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: England
Posts: 26,268
Thanks: 162,490
Thanked 278,846 Times in 26,213 Posts
|
Ireland is a country which has benefited from EU membership. In the 1950s and 60s it was a very impoverished place whose main export was people. I visited Ireland once in my life, in 2001, and mostly I liked what I saw. Dublin struck me as a prosperous and attractive city. The road between Mitchelstown and Mallow in County Mallow was memorably bad, crumbling at the edges and with potholes which resembled the aftermath of an artillery barrage; but mostly the country was being properly looked after. I am quite certain that Ireland has a better education system than the UK.
But it was badly affected by the banking crisis, with several bank failures abd bailouts; Anglo Irish Bank was a particularly bad case. The Irish government intervened in September 2008 but found out that the situation was worse than anyone without inside knowledge would have thought possible, and that the banks had lost far more money than the Irish goverment could afford to underwrite. This was why the Irish government had to borrow from the IMF; it couldn't get sane rates of interest from lenders in private markets. The British government could get affordable rates from the private lenders. Britain has loaned £3.25bn to the Irish government as part of an EU wide €85bn bailout. Experience teaches us that we survive these crises but tend not to learn from them. Ireland would have suffered a lot worse without EU assistance in her bank crisis. I dont think she would do all that well if she departed from the EU. She'd be viable, but life would be pretty hard. If her banks failed again, she would be unable to rescue them. Having said this, any country which is worth a damn will not only think in terms of money. If Ireland ever were to withdraw from the EU, her reasons would probably have to do with sovereignty, same as when Eamon d'Valera firmly refused to allow the Catholic Church to be an established church in Ireland. Though doubtless an observant Catholic as a private citizen Mr d'Valera did not want the Pope meddling in the governance of the country. It is deja vu all over again.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
The Following 19 Users Say Thank You to scoundrel For This Useful Post: |
March 30th, 2017, 03:26 AM | #1919 |
緑の男
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Jockistan, UK.
Posts: 8,318
Thanks: 39,032
Thanked 122,443 Times in 8,318 Posts
|
|
The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to otokonomidori For This Useful Post: |
March 30th, 2017, 06:19 AM | #1920 |
Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 97
Thanks: 785
Thanked 1,351 Times in 97 Posts
|
I watched Theresa May's Brexit Speech and Donald Tusk's speech after receiving the letter this evening (3/29). It's hard to believe that it has actually happen. during the question time after the speech, the SNP both in and out of Parliament looked like they were ready to storm 10 Downing Street. The EU bureaucrats in Brussels were very subdued in comparison it looked like they did not expect the UK to actually trigger Article 50.
|
|
|