[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

But the programme didn't deal with the underlying issues around the EU that are getting lost in the political dogfight. To remind:

1. The EU is rigged for the benefit of Germany (Euro) and France (CAP);

2. The UK is the 2nd largest net contributor to the EU budget;

3. "Ever Closer Union" is the EU's mantra = Deutschland über Alles;

4. The perfidious Irish are using the GFA to protect their exports;

5. The Euro is not sufficiently underpinned - see what'll happen when Italy fails;

6. Remember the EU and Greece.

In the meantime Parliament fiddles while Brexit burns.

Originally Posted by jfman

I always enjoy reading the contradiction that the EU is either weak and crumbling at the same time as being all mighty and powerful, ready to take over the world if we’d don’t stop it now.

Other than that most of your post is highly objectionable. The wartime rhetoric we would be better off without.

This is where you show your true irritating colours. You are the one deploying rhetoric with your "wartime" observation.

You are obstinately refusing to acknowledge what is right before your very eyes. Everything I've written in my post is true.

As to your ridiculous assertion of a contradiction in my words - the EU is indeed a particularly vulnerable edifice due to the lack of substance in the Euro beyond the Bank of Germany. As long as the edifice hasn't crumbled, Germany remains strong and hegemonic within those walls.

There is no doubt, for example, of the CAP being an institution designed for France's benefit to the detriment of the other agro-countries.

There is no doubt of the CFP being in everyone's interest except the UK's - stuff given away by our preposterous politicians in the past.

Macron has shown his true colours by threatening to keep us in the Backstop if we don't let him into our fishing waters big time.

Varadkar is a perfidious schemer, cynically using the GFA to protect his economic interests (and his political future). He forgets that we immediately came to Ireland's rescue in 2008 with a low interest £7 billion loan at the time of the economic crash.

How dare you describe my facts as objectionable.