Off Topic The Politics Thread

You and me both mate. I used to be able to recite album track listings or least worst Watford team line ups in my sleep. Now it's articles of international treaties and how different laws would be worded under seven different scenarios. Once this is over I'm going to learn all 27 EU languages so that if anyone else follows us I can freelance and show them how not to do it

 

No. I have a different opinion to you, thats all.

 

Yes, a deluded opinion.

 

I honestly believe that there won't be an EU in a few years' time.

 

It's this kind of condescending twaddle that makes us that voted leave even more determined to see it through.

 

I’ll be honest, there are loads of views that I don’t respect at all and feel very comfortable contradicting and taking the piss out of them (not talking about Brexit or flags here, necessarily) but I respect peoples rights to have them and share them. Not least because I have a lot of fun criticising them.

 

There are many kinds of patriotism. England is where I come from and I'm proud of my country. I'd be more proud if my country discarded Brexit and took the lead role in Europe we should be in helping to make Europe a strong and safer place to live in, in every respect. It is more important than ever now that the UK and Europe's main ally for 70 odd years is led by a completely untrustworthy maniac, who clearly cannot be trusted to make trade deals with, protect the Envirnoment, Nato, our security or anything else.

 

Good for you. I look forward to a future of subservience to the EU, US and China. Long live the independent and free UK.

We won the war you know!

 

Blimey! If you're right Brexit will be the least of anyone's worries. Do you think it will just collapse because more countries start to fail like Greece or do you think others will follow us out?

 

This......either way it works out, the sooner it IS worked out the better....then we can all (hopefully) go back to living our lives again.....
Like me today, my birthday, unable to get the day off, 12 hour shift

 

Happy Birthday Staines. Hope your shift is quiet

 

Thanks mate. Currently off road at the moment as someone hit the wing mirror off the Ambulance while we were parked up and waiting to get it fixed.....could think of worse days I guess

 

I wonder if one day, we, as a species, will find the collective intelligence to place less importance on imaginary concepts like money, borders, origins, flags etc and through organised, forward thinking, find ways to move on from the systems that create inequality and a desire to look out for ourselves at the expense of others, who, through biological fluke, were born in less privileged locations on our one, spinning oblate spheroid.

For a planet with vast resource, advanced technology and intelligence, we seem to be making a massive **** up of it so far.

 

All those things are daft when you look at them objectively, as are religion and political ideology. But at what stage of human history have we done without them? Shared belief in things we have invented out of nothing and ascribed powers and value to is essential for us to cooperate with people who we have never met and who we will never meet, in large numbers. So we will always need imaginary concepts to have real society.

What we need are better imaginary concepts, and not to let the concepts rule us, like they do today.

 

Happy birthday Stainsey.

 

History need not determine our future, although the lessons are invaluable, but I agree wholeheartedly with your final paragraph.

 

Happy Staines day.

 

I’ve gone for coffee and skid marks.

 

Oslo I can agree with some of your post.
If the EU could adapt and accept other views then there would not have been a problem with Brextards like me.
Remember Cameron went over for a better deal and they said "non". We put in 27 proposals and everyone was declined. They cannot and will not change. Even Macron said the EU needs massive reforms to survive. They had there chance to listen to our concerns and were not interested. That's why Brexit is happening.
Agree with Col in that the whole thing will collapse. It only needs Italy to pull out and it will fall. The EU are doing everything to keep the Italians happy but sadly they should have helped them out long ago.
Even now the EU are doing everything for this not to work. They are trying to get a second referendum hoping we change our minds.

 

That's a good post mate.
I obviously disagree over brexit, but a good post nevertheless.