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Gemily1

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:57am

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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:57am

Paul wrote on Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:35am:

It's still a privilege and I'm similarly privileged, I worked from the age of 15 to 65 for the privilege but some haven't had the opportunities, younger people don't have the pensions we had, they haven't got the cheap houses and since 2020 it's far more difficult for people to come over.

That’s fine if you feel privileged, I worked dammed hard to get my privileges and luck so I have to disagree with your definition of what privileged means.
I don’t know where you got your cheap house from but my first house cost me £17500 I was paying £500 a month mortgage interest rates where 17.5%, I don’t call that cheap.

 Younger people will only get a pension when they’ve worked and paid into and get to an age where they can retire and reap the benefits like we have so there’s no comparison to be made. I also disagree with your opinion of blaming people like me for what happened in the past, but that’s another discussion.

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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:38pm

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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:38pm

mrocharde wrote on Thu Oct 27, 2022 2:09pm:

https://eand.co/britain-doesnt-understand-how-much-trouble-it-s-in-but-the-rest-of-us-should-5c15b884240f

You may disagree with the writer's conclusions but not to read the article is to bury one's head in the sand.

The article seems to be written by a committed " remoaner",that quite common " Brit" who does not accept democracy and prefers to accept the EU( Brussels unelected beauracracy) version of Britain's situation.

No one in Britain is hungry or starving,no one is in need of " food banks" , those that avail themselves of this facility have cottoned on that it allows them to expand their style of living(" free food? I'll have some of that! Or the equivalent in Romanian or Albanian),Britain is stuck in a " liberal socialist" quandary,how to assert independence without offending anyone trying to take advantage,and therefore we have the France inspired ,Illegal immigrant ( Official/ unofficial EU policy?)  of accepting their "quota"  and then passing them through to the NGO people traffickers in Calais ,win win for France,preening and advocating accepting illegals but actually accepting few as It is the UK that ends up as the final shipping destination).

Britain is a welcoming society,the limit of that is fast approaching its limit as the never ending EU propaganda about how UK is faring badly ,seems to increase as each day goes by of late. What is needed is a rise in British Nationalism to put British interests first ,once this starts you will see Britain being attacked from all quarters by beaurocrats of our nearest neighbors as being " unacceptable".Britain alone is a formidable adversary once the hangover from EU liberalism's dispensed with.( The Nationalism of Ireland ,Italy,Hungary, Scotland,Wales,any Eastern European EU country and France.).wil of course be a non topic.

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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:01pm

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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:01pm

Steveyjoanna:

["British Nationalism to put British interests first"] 

Now seems forgotten in the fog of leftist, political correctness era since the 2nd world war & potential imminent 3rd:

In 1946 Churchill delivered a famous speech, at the University of Zurich, in which he advocated a 'United States of Europe', urging Europeans to turn their backs on the horrors of the past and look to the future.

https://european-union.europa.eu/system/files/2021-06/eu-pioneers-winston-churchill_en.pdf

"Europe a nation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_a_Nation

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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:37pm

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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:37pm

Steveyjoanna wrote on Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:38pm:

The article seems to be written by a committed " remoaner",that quite common " Brit" who does not accept democracy and prefers to accept the EU( Brussels unelected beauracracy) version of Britain's situation.

No one in Britain is hungry or starving,no one is in need of " food banks" , those that avail themselves of this facility have cottoned on that it allows them to expand their style of living(" free food? I'll have some of that! Or the equivalent in Romanian or Albanian),Britain is stuck in a " li...

...beral socialist" quandary,how to assert independence without offending anyone trying to take advantage,and therefore we have the France inspired ,Illegal immigrant ( Official/ unofficial EU policy?)  of accepting their "quota"  and then passing them through to the NGO people traffickers in Calais ,win win for France,preening and advocating accepting illegals but actually accepting few as It is the UK that ends up as the final shipping destination).

Britain is a welcoming society,the limit of that is fast approaching its limit as the never ending EU propaganda about how UK is faring badly ,seems to increase as each day goes by of late. What is needed is a rise in British Nationalism to put British interests first ,once this starts you will see Britain being attacked from all quarters by beaurocrats of our nearest neighbors as being " unacceptable".Britain alone is a formidable adversary once the hangover from EU liberalism's dispensed with.( The Nationalism of Ireland ,Italy,Hungary, Scotland,Wales,any Eastern European EU country and France.).wil of course be a non topic.

A rise in British nationalism caused the whole problem, we're now a shrinking economy with the lowest growth in the G7 and predicted lowest growth in the G20, except for Russia, we need a trading relationship with our nearest neighbours, and we don't need to be shipping Lamb and Beef from the other side of the planet to the detriment of our own farmers, Brexit is a farce, and it was dropped on us by the very wealthy seeking deregulation and their friends in the newspaper industry.

Paul

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:37pm

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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:37pm

Steveyjoanna wrote on Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:38pm:

The article seems to be written by a committed " remoaner",that quite common " Brit" who does not accept democracy and prefers to accept the EU( Brussels unelected beauracracy) version of Britain's situation.

No one in Britain is hungry or starving,no one is in need of " food banks" , those that avail themselves of this facility have cottoned on that it allows them to expand their style of living(" free food? I'll have some of that! Or the equivalent in Romanian or Albanian),Britain is stuck in a " li...

...beral socialist" quandary,how to assert independence without offending anyone trying to take advantage,and therefore we have the France inspired ,Illegal immigrant ( Official/ unofficial EU policy?)  of accepting their "quota"  and then passing them through to the NGO people traffickers in Calais ,win win for France,preening and advocating accepting illegals but actually accepting few as It is the UK that ends up as the final shipping destination).

Britain is a welcoming society,the limit of that is fast approaching its limit as the never ending EU propaganda about how UK is faring badly ,seems to increase as each day goes by of late. What is needed is a rise in British Nationalism to put British interests first ,once this starts you will see Britain being attacked from all quarters by beaurocrats of our nearest neighbors as being " unacceptable".Britain alone is a formidable adversary once the hangover from EU liberalism's dispensed with.( The Nationalism of Ireland ,Italy,Hungary, Scotland,Wales,any Eastern European EU country and France.).wil of course be a non topic.

A rise in British nationalism caused the whole problem, we're now a shrinking economy with the lowest growth in the G7 and predicted lowest growth in the G20, except for Russia, we need a trading relationship with our nearest neighbours, and we don't need to be shipping Lamb and Beef from the other side of the planet to the detriment of our own farmers, Brexit is a farce, and it was dropped on us by the very wealthy seeking deregulation and their friends in the newspaper industry.

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