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

[Bunk]

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.

AtW would cut off his left testicle if it meant being allowed to buy a gun here. Which is precisely why he shouldn't be allowed one.

[TimberWolf]

New model has allegedly been reported there:

NSFW!

[AtW]

I believe some German mobile artillery kit is being used in Afghanistan, and they can lob a barrage of shells about 20 miles and land with 30 feet accuracy in any one of various programmable patterns. They can clear a whole mountainside of pesky Taleban in a couple of minutes.

New model has allegedly been reported there:

[OwlHoot]

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

I believe some German mobile artillery kit is being used in Afghanistan, and they can lob a barrage of shells about 20 miles and land with 30 feet accuracy in any one of various programmable patterns. They can clear a whole mountainside of pesky Taleban in a couple of minutes.

edit: The Panzerhaubitze 2000 I think, and it has a maximum range of 60 Km. So you might not even have to be _in_ Afghanistan to clobber hordes of Taleban!

[AtW]

So they lost the war because they had good firearms but pointed them in the wrong direction

Yes, they've pointed them at Soviet Empire

[sasguru]

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.

Anyone reading your posts would conclude you are a 15 year old boy.
Which, I guess, in many respects you are.

[DodgyAgent]

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.

So they lost the war because they had good firearms but pointed them in the wrong direction

[DodgyAgent]

Maybe we should buy 2nd hand French ones.

Ad: Hardly used, only dropped once.

[Doggy Styles]

Maybe we should buy 2nd hand French ones.

Ad: Hardly used, only dropped once.

[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.

[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.

[Pondlife]

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

Maybe we should buy 2nd hand French ones.

Ad: Hardly used, only dropped once.

[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?

[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

[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?