Fatal Nu Liebour mistake - not joining euro while economy was booming

[Scotchpie]

I've been reading this post with interest. To be honest I'm disgusted with many of the views expressed on this post. I think comments about our Europeon neighbours that use references taken from the second world war are blatantly out of place and out of touch with the modern world view and only serves to shows the zenophobic culture of this small minded island nation.

As for the pound, I have no thoughts or sentamental attachment. It's not even of British origin anyway but was an imported from Europe.

[BlasterBates]

Yesterday I drove across the Swiss border in my car and for the first time there was no border guard at all. This is because Switzerland have signed up to Schengen, simply to allow Swiss people to work just over the border. Next year there will be no passport control. Border guards may check cars for smuggled goods, but this is no different to what goes on between other EU countries. As Scotchpie says the world is changing.

[BrilloPad]

Well, they say you can know a man by his enemies, so ATW's OK by me.
To make a serious point regarding Europe, which I am very much pro BTW (I was trying this "trolling" thing before, but it is a bit boring ...).
where do all the little Englanders see the UK in say, 2050 ?

Popluated mostly by chavs. The future is East......

[sasguru]

Its all gone a bit Lord of the Flies on here again.

ATW may well spout some drivel (I can't be bothered to wade through a lot of his stuff) but this thread has shown some of you lot for what you really are. If you lot are representative then there ain't that much hope for us as a species.

I've got to stop looking at this forum - surely there has to be something better going on in the world rather than getting depressed watching a bunch of verminous, spineless scumbags spew their hate-filled guts out every day?

GTF

Is that the definition of someone who uses a tragic terrorist event where people lost their lives to spout off total, utter inane garbage?

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-hostages.html

Only proves the point in my last post.

[Cyberman]

why is it when someone cannot make a good case for the UK to join the Euro they are left with nothing else to do but accuse the antis as being "parochial".? If joining the Euro is no more than a question of whether one is "parochial" or a "cool European" then give me little England any day.

The UK is no more up "tulip street" than any other European economy, the difference being that we can set our own solutions (right or wrong) as we like, when we like. We dont have to wait for Germany or France to make their minds up, or hope that what they want to do is the same as what we want to do.

Correct!! Our problem is that our HMG etc are just too plain stupid and wasteful. If we had invested some of our proceeds of growth instead of throwing it down a black hole, we could be in the position of Australia that has just returned 22 Billion dollars that it had put away for a rainy day, to its poorest constituents!!!!

[expat]

Pray tell - how does getting angry with an ignorant pratt who is rude about his hosts make me a communist???

It doesn't, but I would like to dissociate myself from this "his hosts" stuff. AtW is one of us now - an eccentric one to be sure but there has always been room for that - he has put a lot of effort into being British, and I will take him therefore at his word, and not see him as a guest and you or me as his hosts.

[expat]

Its all gone a bit Lord of the Flies on here again.

Good observation. The second-rate bullies gather round in the hope thet a first-rate bully will put on a show for them.

[Doggy Styles]

I agree. AtW might be a soviet-leaning geek, but he is OUR soviet-leaning geek.

[ace00]

Popluated mostly by chavs. The future is East......

Yes. Boarded up high streets, crumbling tenements, socialist tax rates with free market level of state service, authoritarian government, militiarised police and societal identity crisis.

Oh

That's happened already. Oh dear....

[Bob Dalek]

I've been reading this post with interest. To be honest I'm disgusted with many of the views expressed on this post. I think comments about our Europeon neighbours that use references taken from the second world war are blatantly out of place and out of touch with the modern world view and only serves to shows the zenophobic culture of this small minded island nation.

As for the pound, I have no thoughts or sentamental attachment. It's not even of British origin anyway but was an imported from Europe.

I agree. Bloody Nazis, Frogs, Cowardly & Greasy Italians, er, oh, I think I have my wires crossed. Sorry.