Reply to: Cities from Europe eyeing spoils from brexit

[original PM]

Doomed probably or maybe not?

[DodgyAgent]

One of the main challenges for any political group which wants to oppress it's citizens is that often the armed forces will not respond in the way needed as they will not kill the citizens they swore to defend.

A good way around this would be to have armed forces made up of people from lots of different nations and so when you have an uprising you want to suppress you do not need to send in an army made of citizens from that country you can just send it from an army made up of citizens from other countries.

Go the EU army!

That will work

Dutch peacekeepers remember Mladic, the general who humiliated them - Telegraph

he enduring memory Boudewijn Kok has of Srebrenica is the moment General Ratko Mladic stood by the roadside and gave him an ironic, mocking salute.
Mr Kok, then a 20-year-old corporal, was one of 400 blue-helmeted Dutch army peacekeepers who were driving away after abandoning 50,000 Muslim civilians they had sworn to protect.
Serb irregulars had shouldered the inadequate Dutch force aside and overrun the United Nations "safe haven" in the eastern Bosnian town; instead of fighting them, the young Dutchman surrendered along with his comrades, and then, in a episode of utter humiliation, helped the Serbs load Muslim refugees onto buses to be driven away on the orders of General Mladic.

[original PM]

One of the main challenges for any political group which wants to oppress it's citizens is that often the armed forces will not respond in the way needed as they will not kill the citizens they swore to defend.

A good way around this would be to have armed forces made up of people from lots of different nations and so when you have an uprising you want to suppress you do not need to send in an army made of citizens from that country you can just send it from an army made up of citizens from other countries.

Go the EU army!

[shaunbhoy]

Honestly can you name one EU directive that affected your life in a negative way?

Mass uncontrolled immigration.

[CretinWatcher]

I'll be just fine. As will my country.
We have never needed meddling unelected unaccountable european political lightweights to organise our affairs and we don't need them now.
We both want and need politicians that work for US as an Electorate and can be ousted by US as an Electorate if they don't perform. That is what we voted for and that is what we will get. And if you don't like that kind of answerable democracy then there is no shortage of places that can offer you alternatives.
Don't let the door hit your whining arse on the way out.

Honestly can you name one EU directive that affected your life in a negative way?
As the war criminal, Tony Blair, said, there was no decision he made that was affected in any way by the EU.
No, any problems/issues/bad decisions that have affected this country have been all been self-created.

[shaunbhoy]

Well i hope you'll be proud of yourself. Unemployed but proud.

I'll be just fine. As will my country.
We have never needed meddling unelected unaccountable european political lightweights to organise our affairs and we don't need them now.
We both want and need politicians that work for US as an Electorate and can be ousted by US as an Electorate if they don't perform. That is what we voted for and that is what we will get. And if you don't like that kind of answerable democracy then there is no shortage of places that can offer you alternatives.
Don't let the door hit your whining arse on the way out.

[MrMarkyMark]

Right now i'm discussing on topics and you're only attacking me personally. So what about this ignore? Pls

Not true, I provided reasons why it wouldn't be France.

Thing is, in reality, you get far more personal, but sadly are one of those losers, that doesn't like to get any back.

[diseasex]

Well this place will be no place for the faint-hearted. The more posts you make the more France appears to be your spiritual home.
Don't let us hold you back.

Well i hope you'll be proud of yourself. Unemployed but proud.

Indeed Brexiters doesn't want mass people making money in the UK. they want peace and quiet.

[diseasex]

You don't know anything, that's the real problem.

Right now i'm discussing on topics and you're only attacking me personally. So what about this ignore? Pls

[shaunbhoy]

Makes my heart melt to witness what is happening.

Well this place will be no place for the faint-hearted. The more posts you make the more France appears to be your spiritual home.
Don't let us hold you back.

[MrMarkyMark]

Put me on ignore list, problem solved. I know you voted remain , but you seem to be equally touched by my posts

You don't know anything, that's the real problem.

[CretinWatcher]

then you will have to find another avenue to vent your hatred of the UK

Enough with labelling people who disagree with you "UK haters".
It may well be that your vote has destroyed the UK, as I pointed out yesterday

[OwlHoot]

I cannot see many businesses wanting to relocate to France.

They have a reputation for despising finance, have a legal 35 hour week, and really strict employment rules.

When I worked for a UK company we wanted to close a loss making French office. The amount the company had to pay to do so was completely over the top. ..

Couldn't they just reduce the office to a small hired room, with a single minimum wage employee, a geriatric "caretaker" popping in once a day?

So, technically, the office would still be open but costing only about £200 a week to run!

[CretinWatcher]

I cannot see many businesses wanting to relocate to France.

They have a reputation for despising finance, have a legal 35 hour week, and really strict employment rules.

When I worked for a UK company we wanted to close a loss making French office. The amount the company had to pay to do so was completely over the top.

If you wanted to relocate it would be more attractive to go to Dublin, Frankfurt or Amsterdam.

^
This.
Where they go is a moot point though, wherever still hurts us.

[tomtomagain]

I cannot see many businesses wanting to relocate to France.

They have a reputation for despising finance, have a legal 35 hour week, and really strict employment rules.

When I worked for a UK company we wanted to close a loss making French office. The amount the company had to pay to do so was completely over the top.

If you wanted to relocate it would be more attractive to go to Dublin, Frankfurt or Amsterdam.