The entire business model is "make pensioners angry over their cornflakes". It's actually kind of amazing if you discount the whole 'destroying society from within' aspect of the grift.
reminds me of that dumfuck brit who was upset that he has to wait longer at Schiphol Airport .. and was whining " that is not the brexit I vote for" .. LOL ..
If Brexit didn't happen and it planned to connect London to Glasgow, then to Edinburgh and back down the east coast they'd be crying about their tax money funding a train from Sofia to Thessaloniki as the poor British taxpayer has to endure longer queues at the NHS, which they totally would fund.
Yeah it's one of those infrastructure projects that has to be justified as a political project, since I'm guessing the math doesn't really work out. But it'd be funny, it'd be a 30 minute commute between the capitols then.
Seriously though, what's the deal with those easterly connections? Hoping there'll be major changes and a decent country (or countries) to trade with within the next decades? Or just inertia in the plan?
I admit I would like it if we had a rail connection to mainland Europe that wasn't "Go all the way up through Sweden".
But I can't complain too much, still planning on living he permanently!
(Got my perm residence permit, even! Now I just need to learn Finnish to get citizenship...)
I am not! I am not sure if my own nanoscale research skills would translate well to Quantum Computing, alas. Currently I'm a postdoctoral researcher for the next... 8 months, and then--
.. Well, then I'm either looking for a job in Finland, or have an Academy Fellow grant. I'll know by summer!
I am befuddled over the fact that when they left an organization they actually thought the organization wouldn't go on without them. Is this leftover thinking of "Britain as Empire?"
It's complicated but the people who wanted Brexit still want Brexit (which will start paying off ANY DAY NOW) and as of 2019 most of the rest of the country are absolutely fed up of hearing about it, so no politician sees any percentage in stirring the whole thing up again.
The British capital is the No. 1 flight destination in Europe. That's why the Swiss Federal Railways (we are also not an EU zone) are examining a Switzerland - London project in five hours with SNCF and Eurostar. Cracker: Not a priotity of SNCF.
Yep, so funny. Love the way the UK has become the spoiled teenager who’s moved out of his parents’ home and now complains that he keeps running out of milk.
The lack of any Elite Eurosceptics who are actually happy with being cut off from Europe in any way is the biggest reason to think brexit gets undone at some point...sadly
Of course the 'unelected eurocrat' business is unutterable bollox!
The Commission is the body normally targeted by the morons who criticize eurocrats & that body is simply the EU civil service. Correct me if I'm wrong but civil servants are not normally elected in the UK either, are they?
Indeed the Commissioners appointed by the elected representatives of the EU nations not specifically elected themselves but appointed by people who were. Amongst others:
Peter Mandelson
Niel Kinnock
Chris Patten
Leon Britten
The are UK officials who aren’t elected. They are called civil servants. I know you know but it amazes me the people don’t get that the EU has civil servants.
But it was the folks at Daily Express whining that the cool unelected Eurocrat kids made them feel left out. Seems like it's the Brexiters are the ones with some sort of unrequited issues when it comes to boots. Dren's... well, there's really no nice way to rephrase "pretty fucking stupid."
Brexit happened for real because the politicians and people didnt want to lose face reversing what everyone knew was a stupid, self-harming, and very expensive decision
I'm curious as to how many "articles" there have been ranting about something, that we would have be privy to had we not decided to listen to greedy pricks tell us what was best.
The incredible thing is that the article itself contains nothing about the UK being left out or how the EU are scheming against us or anything, just a totally normal report with a totally raving headline
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Man, the *gaslighting* of this framing!
I would lament the UK getting left out of any major projects like this, but, gee, you guys VOTED FOR Brexit, so, yeah, this is what happens next...
What did you THINK Brexit would mean??
Priceless 🤣
The one below is an Editor’s Zoick, no less 🤪
Desperate…
Pick!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Had to look it up…
But I can't complain too much, still planning on living he permanently!
(Got my perm residence permit, even! Now I just need to learn Finnish to get citizenship...)
.. Well, then I'm either looking for a job in Finland, or have an Academy Fellow grant. I'll know by summer!
reaping: sucks
"We told them to fuck off, so they fucked off."
Now it's, "How very dare they!"
https://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-michael-gove-ministers-to-hold-emergency-meeting-over-no-deal-chaos-2019-2
Full of pornography - the kind that’s clean
-John Cooper-Clarke
So. Much. Betrayal.
The Commission is the body normally targeted by the morons who criticize eurocrats & that body is simply the EU civil service. Correct me if I'm wrong but civil servants are not normally elected in the UK either, are they?
Peter Mandelson
Niel Kinnock
Chris Patten
Leon Britten
Did all of them get their jobs because of who their parents were or because the crown liked the cut of their jibs? No.
Lords Temporal are the regular lords and maybe (?) more sane. At least most of them aren’t hereditary anymore.
By accident.
Doubt they have a defence.
"Fine, I'll do that"
"...but then you can't be involved in any of the good stuff the EU does"
"...you damn Eurocrats have a lot of nerve, you know thay?"
But apparently he did actually use "Like", so that sure is impressive!
Russian polarisation farm troll?
So that’s just what you’ll do
One of these days you’ll like my boots as well as all my shoes
We are I UE, too
Even if it were just a headline, those are much of the editors' slant. This is a country where TV news reports on newspapers' page-one headlines!
Just maybe
Brexit was possibly a mistake
#ReBrenter
It's soft porn for bigots.