Brexit
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- detritus4
We should've stayed in the EU - but - done what all EU countries do, especially France & Germany, when things don't suit them: break the rules.
I remember reading a while back - and wish that I'd kept the link - that there's a large scoreboard somewhere in Brussels with all the EU countries listed on, noting their compliance across EU rulesets. Who was top of the compliance list? The UK.
We're a weirdly spineless country sometimes, quick to blame others for our own failings, slow to act and amend our own failings .. on our own.
Look at Portugal - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/…
The UK is - for now - still one of the larger economies in the world, especially for its size. What's to stop us occasionally bending rules for our own benefit?
We really are a nation of meek, curtain-twitching idiots.
- “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.” – Robert Downey Jr.sinjun
- Hah, indeed... was in Berlin smoking cigarettes with branding on the packet, in a bar - somewhere in the UK there's someone blaming all 3 on the EU.kingsteven
- I think it's the Ozzies we have to blame for that particular game, no? I quite like the camo green everything comes in now.. :)detritus
- Yep, Australia’s doing. And the government here is just as messed up as back home in Blighty. Let’s move to Portugal.MrT
- On Portuguese tv last night, there was a l best regional meal+wine competition, each region cheering on it's specialities.shapesalad
- Couldn't imagine that on BBC 1, too nationalist, not including enough minorities etc.shapesalad
- National debts, money owed to banks that create money buy typing digits into a computer, it's all nonsense.shapesalad
- Soz shape but there’s been quite a few series on regional food in the ooo k.MrT