The New Place

What we see in Europe is that the UK is happy - nay, eager - to side with the US in most matters, and that means preventing Europe from acquiring the means to act on its own. That's why the UK does not want Europe to have its own military force, as it would make Europe independent from the US and c...

You might be right on one thing Sertorio... The British establishment NEVER shared your high falutin continental idealism of a politically united Europe. They went in for practical reasons. So yes, Britain's agenda for being in the EU might have included the unstated goal of doing everything within ...

What Britain joined was not an European Common Market, it was the European Economic Community, which already had an element of supranationalism. It was meant to grow into a plitical union, and Britain knew it. But it also knew that the only way to stop it was being inside it, to sabotage all politi...

Jim the Moron wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:22 am

Sorry to be a killjoy,....

That will be the day!

Free trade is good, except when it isn't... Less performing economies must retain the possibility of temporarily protecting some productive sectors, until they can face open competiton from the rest of the world. That's how Japan and South Korea succeeded in developing their economies. The only thi...

The UK will always side with the US against any attempt to make Europe more independent. And that's why it is imperative that the UK leaves the EU. No Sertorio, the author has it wrong. The "Europe" that Britain joined back in 1973 was called the European Common Market and was only a trade block. A...

The unfolding nightmare in the United Kingdom holds a few lessons for all of us. Did we really need to be reminded that things are often a lot more complicated than they at first seem? The Brexit camp had some very simple messages. There was talk of regaining control, always a crowd pleaser; we’re ...

It's up to us. In Portugal we already generate 40% of our electricity from renewable sources. If we can do it, anybody can... Very easy to see that you are not the owner of a motor vehicle, Sertorio. But I am! And my next motor vehicle will be electric ... :lol: Shocking! :mrgreen:

Strange thing Sertorio: I was in the USA just a matter of months ago and it did not give me the impression of a decaying (or decadent) society on its last legs. I have not been in Britain since back in 2001; but contrasting what I saw then with what I saw during my preceding 1975 visit (gap of a qua...

Sertorio wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:37 pm

It's up to us. In Portugal we already generate 40% of our electricity from renewable sources. If we can do it, anybody can...

Very easy to see that you are not the owner of a motor vehicle, Sertorio.