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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Now you're being even sillier. The Torygraph's report is exactly correct and you're making mischief out of it. There's no way anyone other than a fool/troublemaker would interpret the report as portraying the Nazis in a positive light; it is a factual observation and portrays the French minister in a very poor light.
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Jon, the gunboats was a Boris type decision - and quite right too because the militant French have form.
Why does Jersey have to be very friendly to France when they (fishermen) want to pillage the fishing grounds and not adhere to the licences that they have been granted?
And threatening to cut electricity (a commercial contract) is a friendly act by France?
And why hasn't France (or Jersey) invoked the formal treaty dispute mechanism?
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Except it isn't...
https://www.theislandwiki.org/index...._and_Rationing
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Foodstuffs which had previously been scarce were now non-existent, and the Channel Islands were effectively in [Post D-Day state of siege|a state of siege]], with the Allies making no attempt to recapture them and the Germans having no intention of surrendering. The populations of the islands were squeezed in the middle, heading to starvation, and the German troops were, if anything, even more badly affected.
One by one, foodstuffs and essential commodities ran out, with no hope of replenishment until the end of the war. Gas supply ceased on 4 September and some 50 public ovens were opened by the States in various parts of St Helier. From October 1 the electricity supply became uncertain and the current was shut off each evening.
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https://the-history-girls.blogspot.c...in-ww2-by.html
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By Christmas 1944, electricity was no longer available. Candles became scarce, and winter evenings were spent in semi-darkness by the light of a tin can full of oil, with a bootlace for a wick. Lack of warmth and gnawing hunger made winter on Jersey a true misery.
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You state
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There's no way anyone other than a fool/troublemaker would interpret the report as portraying the Nazis in a positive light
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They are comparing the Nazis positively against the French - the Nazis also made the trains run on time, but we don't use them as a comparison when LNER/GW/Arriva trains are late, because it was where they made the trains run on time to was the major issue...
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