Didn't take long for the EU to start softening it's tone

[Pat Vegas]

did it?

Like the horrible, rich Uncle, might not like him but you can't risk being written out of the will

The EU's days are numbered.

It will end up being some smaller alliance where Germany running a few other countries.

[PSRB]

The EU's days are numbered.

It will end up being some smaller alliance where Germany running a few other countries.

Like 1939?

[Pat Vegas]

Like 1939?

Exactly.
germany have done alright out of the whole thing really.

best thing that could have happened to em. Bit Like Japan too.

[Burney]

The EU's days are numbered.

It will end up being some smaller alliance where Germany running a few other countries.

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.

[Pat Vegas]

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.

On a separate note bloody good idea we kept the £. Otherwise this brexit mess would be a lot more complex.

[Burney]

On a separate note bloody good idea we kept the £. Otherwise this brexit mess would be a lot more complex.

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.

[IUFG]

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.

indeed.

without centralised policies and full economic control, how can a euro possibly be worth the same throughout the eurozone?

[Burney]

indeed.

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.

[Pat Vegas]

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.

I like Portillo's train show.

[Sir C]

I like Portillo's train show.

He's got a terrific pair of tits.