did it?
Like the horrible, rich Uncle, might not like him but you can't risk being written out of the will
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did it?
Like the horrible, rich Uncle, might not like him but you can't risk being written out of the will
Apparently, Spain's going to try and get Gibraltar back despite having no legitimate claim to it whatsoever. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
The EU's days are numbered.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
It will end up being some smaller alliance where Germany running a few other countries.
Like 1939?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
germany have done alright out of the whole thing really.
best thing that could have happened to em. Bit Like Japan too.
Our presence as a perpetual net contributor and major military player served to counterbalance - or at least to mask - the extent of Germany's influence . Without us there, the fact that it amounts to German hegemony is going to become much more starkly clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
On a separate note bloody good idea we kept the £. Otherwise this brexit mess would be a lot more complex.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
As Portillo pointed out yesterday, the EU keeps making terrible economic and political decisions in order to push the idea of ever closer union. The Euro was just one of these mistakes. When it was first introduced, everyone asked how you can have a central currency without centralised political control. The answer was: you can't, but they were arrogant enough to think centralised political control would come along in the natural course of things. It didn't and now the Eurozone is stagnant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
without centralised policies and full economic control, how can a euro possibly be worth the same throughout the eurozone?
I remember people asking that in 1997, mate. Nobody had an answer then and nobody has one now.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG