Ministers step up fight to protect City from EU trading shake-up

[Arturo Bassick]

Can anybody hear a loud whooshing noise somewhere over Birmingham?

[AtW]

I think you will find it is perfectly OK for a Brit to purchase a firearm from a country where they are legally on sale. You seem to have a complete lack of understanding over the EU and single market legislation.

Yes but UK prevents legitimate Germany firearms manufacturers from selling their products in UK!

[Doggy Styles]

Yes but UK prevents legitimate Germany firearms manufacturers from selling their products in UK!

So your quid pro quo, as it were, is that you'd accept the UK's demands in defence of The City if the UK accepted Germany selling firearms here.

Why are firearms so important to you?

[bobspud]

So your quid pro quo, as it were, is that you'd accept the UK's demands in defence of The City if the UK accepted Germany selling firearms here.

Why are firearms so important to you?

When I get hold of the daft offshore feckers I will show you

[DodgyAgent]

Yes but UK prevents legitimate Germany firearms manufacturers from selling their products in UK!

Why would we want to buy firearms from the team that lost the war?

[Pondlife]

Why would we want to buy firearms from the team that lost the war?

Maybe we should buy 2nd hand French ones.

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[AtW]

So your quid pro quo, as it were, is that you'd accept the UK's demands in defence of The City if the UK accepted Germany selling firearms here.

I was merely making an example that products sold in one country aren't available in other.

In this case it does not matter because money isn't a product and regulated differently - UK can stay out of eurozone and pretend UK transaction tax (AKA stamp duty) isn't used on financial trades, however it can't really tell ECB where to clear funds when it's not member of the eurozone in the first place. ECB rules only concern members of the eurozone - they can't make UK accept 500 euros in retail and equally UK should have no say in how euro currency works.

[AtW]

Why would we want to buy firearms from the team that lost the war?

They did not lose because they had bad firearms, on the contrary their equipment remained top rate, especially light firearms (compare tulipy Bren gun vs MG42 or even MP44) - WW2 was won because Nazies expended majority of their forces on the Eastern Front.

[Doggy Styles]

Maybe we should buy 2nd hand French ones.

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[DodgyAgent]

Maybe we should buy 2nd hand French ones.

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