I can assure you, Charles, that dear old England is still alive and well. I felt it from the day I arrived. It's why I stayed.
Well, that and knocking up an Essex bird.
And if you think that there is a sign that the empire is not well, having to send Pokster along as a sign of strength would have to be right up there.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
You really do love logical leaps, Burney.
No, I never said that. You said that over 55s decided they preferred life pre EU and that's why they voted Leave and that that is a powerful argument for Leave. I pointed out that by virtually every measurable standard life is better now, so that argument doesn't really hold. At no point did I credit the EU for those improvements.
Yes, there is great strength in unification for Grossdeutschland.
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Given the context of my remarks, it should be abundantly clear that I was referring to those areas of life in which membership of the EU has had an influence. You were the one who artificially conflated that with a range of irrelevant sociological factors that are common to every developed country.