The B Word

Discussion in 'Politics 2.0' started by sydney_horn, Sep 29, 2021.

  1. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

    Good news or another false dawn. The DUP won't be happy though:

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  2. Brexit hubris in a single image.
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  3. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

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  4. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

  5. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

    I disagree, but then, I was idealogical rather than capitalistic/materialistic in my reasons, like you lefties. We have enough issues with just the one layer of buraucracy, that the addition of a second (with all its corruption and scheming) seems the most ridiculous proposal possible. But how do you guys square your left wing politics with complaints that capitalism works better in the EU?

    How is it people who recognise that untempered government is the problem, think that a load more government is the answer?

    Bewildering.
     
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  6. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

  7. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

    The biggest scandal to hit the EU in decades, with offices sealed, money ceazed and officials imprisoned.

    Glad we're out of there.

    How can they govern corruption in twenty seven states when they can't even govern themselves?

    Question. Should we have a vote to include another layer of corruption on top of the corruption we already have?
     
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  8. I see hooter has put a post on here and I'll give you 10/1 it's about the EU corruption scandal. If so, isn't it marvelous that the EU can deal so firmly and quickly with malfeasance?

    In other news, Lady Mone is in Honduras which has no extradition treaty with her and hubby's £70m ill gotten gains, Owen Paterson is still in the employ of Randox, and Tory donor, previously won having an £11m contract to deliver PPE has been awarded a further £4.5m contract to dispose of unusable PPE.

    And Baroness Dido is currently sitting in the Lords being unable to trace any of the £37bn she spent on Test and Trace.

    Britain - leading the world. Europeans - rank amateurs.
     
  9. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

    If it was that great, mate, you would have been blabbing on about it, and not waited for me to bring it up. It's been going on for days and not a peep out of you lot.

    Word is, they are having to deal with it because it is only the tip of the iceburg.

    But look on the bright side. This could be the thing that drives reform in the EU.
     
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  10. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    In corruption?
     
  11. Oh yes.
     
  12. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

    Exactly this.

    The contrast between how the EU is dealing with these allegations of corruption and how the current UK government has dealt with the many scandals that have beset them is stark.

    Of course the EU is open to corruption. No one has ever claimed it is perfect. The politicians that are elected there are still politicians. There are bound to be some that are tempted by the fruits offered by the lobbyists.

    But the EU commission has responded swiftly and strongly. This will lead to prosecutions and massive reforms. The EU, as always, endeavours to be transparent and fair and acts immediately when it falls short.

    Meanwhile, in the UK, billions have been swindled from the taxpayer and Sunak writes it off with a shrug.
     
  13. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

  14. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

    This has been happening very near the top.

    When something like this explodes onto the scene, it is often as a reaction to the fact that it is rife, but has been successfully covered up for too long and could be contained no longer. Think Saville at the BBC.

    We’ll see. But in the mean time, I am enjoying the optics of you guys, on discovering gross high level corruption in the EU, choosing to laud the Council for its efficiencies, rather than condemn it for its naughtiness.

    Yeah. At least we know that the forum’s position on corruption now is “They all do it you know”. Imagine the display of petticoats if it had been a tory at the bottom of this, and not just a bunch of EU socialists.
     
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  15. EnjoytheGame

    EnjoytheGame Reservist

    Turbo-charged Britain.

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  16. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    That lower chart is particularly stomach churning as:
    1. The UK is mostly self-sufficient in gas (LNG/methane).
    2. We import very small quantities of gas and negligible quantities of Russian gas.
     
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  17. EnjoytheGame

    EnjoytheGame Reservist

    This is what the architects of Brexit meant by turbo-charged Britain. A country free from any oversight when it wants to rip off the population sector by sector.
     
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  18. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

  19. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    The Brexit anthem:

     
  20. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    One man has been able to survey the scene and report on the UK’s progress.

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  21. V Crabro

    V Crabro Reservist

    These charts are bogus - prices are set in global markets, over which the UK government has no control................................................;)
     
  22. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    But, is the data referring to "Household..." (ie retail) not wholesale prices?
     
  23. EnjoytheGame

    EnjoytheGame Reservist

    The charts show household energy prices; so the data is not bogus. It shows what the heading says it shows.
     
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  25. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Such a big win. Great work by our trade negotiators.
     
  26. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    Such a PIG win more like.

    £200k a year mate into the economy. Ballin’.
     
  27. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Or - and hear me out here - £100m over 500 years. That's a big old amount. That's nearly the budget for HS2 recouped in low grade sausages alone. Just got to make it last half a millennium.
     
  28. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    Delivering £1BILLION by the year 7022.
     
  29. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    I'd love to be there in 7022 mate but no doubt I'll have been cancelled by then by the far left Biased Broadcasting Cronies, Liebour and Corbynites.
     
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  30. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    If they don’t get you the Libturds will m8
     
  31. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    #voteReformliveforever
     
  32. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

  33. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

    We found it. We are out of thE EU.

    It's you idealist lefties that appear more worried that there was nothing in it for you.
     
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