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Previously on "Why are the French Getting an MP for London?"
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Merkel is playing to the electorate; I think she knows that eventually she'll have to cave in and let the ECB step in or offer Eurobonds, but first she has to show the German public that she's tried every other alternative because Germans have a deep seated fear of central banks doing things like Quantitative Easing or money printing. She'll give in eventually and she's just trying to soften up Germans to accept it.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostYep, some of the SPD and CDU might go along with handing over powers to Brussels, but a large chunk of Mrs Merkel's party is the Bavarian CSU and I'm sure they are slapping their thoroughly conservative and rather wealthy knees at the thought of handing power over to everyone else. Bugger that, they don't even trust Berlin, never mind Brussels or London.
Stuff like this brings governments together, or brings them down...
End game approaching.
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostEverything is unravelling. Either the Euro breaks up or Germany controls the finances (and therefore everything else) of the rest of the Eurozone.
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Originally posted by Old Hack View Post
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Meanwhile, in Berlin....
Originally posted by The Dark Lady SlutGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel says the EU needs a political union even if it means some countries integrating faster than others.
Speaking on German TV, she called for "more Europe", including a budgetary union, saying "we need a political union first and foremost".
"Step by step we must from now on give up more competences to Europe, and allow Europe more powers of control."
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Originally posted by pacharan View PostI'm not confused about anything and, frankly, your insults about my intelligence are just tedious.
These French people who come here.
What sort of demographic do you think they fit into? I'll tell you - by and large they will be largely of the professional classes. Not economic migrants escaping hardship.
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Originally posted by realityhack View PostPachman has single-handedly exposed a nefarious world-conspiracy that will have dire consequences for us all. The notion of having a parliamentary representative for a sizeable French population in our capital is, obviously, a first step towards the dissolution of our sovereignty, the advancement of the Cheese Empire, and the worldwide abolition of deodorant.
Pay heed, with fear and trembling, wailing and gnashing of teeth, to the birth pangs of a terror that will enslave us all.
That or get out more.
Your choice.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostThey're simply ensuring representation in the French parliament of French citizens who live outside France; nothing to do with the EU or any of that stuff that makes some people paranoid. Italy does something similar and Britain considered something similar until Tony B Liar discovered most expats are tories and then decided to take away the vote after 10 years of non-residence.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Thatcher introduced voting rights for expats in the mid 1980s on the grounds they were likely to vote Tory. Before Blair took that right away again I heard rumours that the taxman might do some of his famous "deeming" on the issue and "deem" expats who took up their voting rights as being UK resident, so I chose to keep out of that loop.
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Originally posted by pacharan View PostAnd you ignored my earlier deduction that you were implying that anyone who pays tax gets the vote.
<fingersinears>I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!</fingersinears>
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Pachman has single-handedly exposed a nefarious world-conspiracy that will have dire consequences for us all. The notion of having a parliamentary representative for a sizeable French population in our capital is, obviously, a first step towards the dissolution of our sovereignty, the advancement of the Cheese Empire, and the worldwide abolition of deodorant.
Pay heed, with fear and trembling, wailing and gnashing of teeth, to the birth pangs of a terror that will enslave us all.
That or get out more.
Your choice.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostOh, back to Ad Hominem again. Please be more original. Even russell can do better.
<fingersinears>I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!</fingersinears>
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View Postno...they included Norway in the region and Norway isn't in the EU, nor has plans to join the EU.
This is to allow French people who live abroad inside and outside the EU to have a say in French affairs. If enough French people live in the US they might do the same there too one day.
This is not a French MP who sits in the UK parliament it's a French MP who lives in France and makes laws in France, these laws have no impact on Norway or the UK. They' are probably doing this because the French government want to tax French citizens abroad so by giving them a representative in the French parliement will enable them to argue that they have taxation with representation, otherwise there would be a big hoo hah. They want to tax rich French people 75% and they'll all bugger off so that's why they're doing this.
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Originally posted by pacharan View PostWell you're not defending it in your usual supercillious, wet, wishy washy, liberal manner so I can only deduce that you too think it was a silly comment.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostYou know, if you take one man's words and twist them into what you want to believe he's said , it's very easy to ridicule them. It's called a 'Straw Man' argument and it exposes your own lack of logic or reason.
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