thuytran.bsky.social
Used to be a faceless bureaucrat. Still faceless, but no longer a bureaucrat.
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Agreed.
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Well it's only been 8+ years since the vote and 5+ years since Brexit. They can take all the time they need to find that elusive compromise!
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They voted for two incompatible things. They can't get both. Tough.
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Facts hurt.
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We don't want another euro crisis where the UK just walks away and says nothing to do with me, you sort yourselves out.
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Lol..
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So you're singling out EU Commission officials' children now. How sick.
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It's not designed for EU Commission staff but for the general public. EU Commission staff already have degrees and jobs and mostly not in the age bracket for this scheme.
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He was widely accused of foreign interference. If Tusk or Juncker had said "no free trade, no FoM" it would have backfired spectacularly. Keeping quiet was the right thing to do.
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Everybody seems to have forgotten the balance of competence review launched by Cameron late 2012, which concluded in 2014 that the balance between what the EU does and how it affects the UK was about right.
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...if only the EU showed some flexibility (it's in their interest, don't they know!).
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Remember how Obama's "back of the queue" was received?
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But what happens if the meat is labelled fraudulently as going to a 3rd country but in fact stays in the EU?
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That's called le grand écart (doing the splits). It can be very painful.
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Isn't Trump dismantling the US administrative capacity?
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There isn't the administrative capacity in the state to monitor quotas and lengths of stay, as is already the case with overstaying students.
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I'm not so sure.
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But the special relationship?
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That's a difficult one. Would the UK side with the US or EU?
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In a noisy office restaurant full of people speaking French I heard somebody speaking Vietnamese tables away.
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Can't the countries with higher tariffs channel their exports through those with lower tariffs? A bit like UK channels exports to Russia through Azerbaijan to circumvent sanctions?
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I don't engagé with trolls.
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I am an EU national (not Spanish).
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I don't know what that means, sorry.
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Truth sometimes hurt. Get over it.
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Meaningless big words.
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Doesn't matter if he did or didn't. The country voted to leave. Blame yourselves collectively, not the EU or Spain. No sympathy.
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He should be looking closer to home to his compatriots who voted to leave. His situation is the result of that.
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there are NHS leaflets that tell you that you have to have a certain level of eyesight loss before you can be considered for a cataract operation. It's not the care itself, it's the access to it which makes healthcare in the UK so bad.
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before any treatment even happens. On the continent you have direct access to specialists who often have all the equipment to do some basic tests. You go to see an ophthalmologist and they say 'you need an operation for your cataract, when do you want it done?). In the UK at the optician's...
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Having lived on the continent (France/Belgium) for 45 years, it seems to me that the main problem with UK healthcare is access. You need to see GP (a few weeks wait), you need GP to refer you to specialist (weeks/months wait), specialist orders tests (more wait) then more wait for results
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Nothing to do with Spain. Look at the idiots in Lincolnshire. Do they care that you can't go to your holiday home in Spain? No, so why should Spain care?
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Roquefort, butter and celery. Parma ham and melon.
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They won't be able to, because the people who will be at defence meetings will not be competent to discuss trade.
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Any sign of them even trying?
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He's handled everything terribly. Result is he's unpopular with a large number of segments of society. It's going to be difficult to recover from that.
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Starmer. Autocorrect doesn't like him either.
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Starter repeating austerity 2.0 will get the same result.
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So how is change going to happen if the population doesn't demand it?
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I'm listening. What I'm trying to say is that the views in your part of the country, legitimate as they are, may not necessarily be those of the rest of the country. Change needs to be supported by the whole country and we are nowhere near that. If the Tesco workers don't vote they'll be unbothered.
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2 in 5 is still not enough to bring about change. And that's in an area directly affected by Brexit. In other parts of the country it doesn't register at all. Too busy blaming the government.
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If any change is going to happen it needs the people who work in Tesco to make the connection. At present they don't and it doesn't look like they will any time soon.
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But does anybody link this state of affairs to Brexit? Which is what the thread is about?
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When I was living in Belgium there were streets in Brussels that were highly desirable, and a few blocks away, areas that you wouldn't want to go to. People just get used to what they see daily and it becomes the norm.
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But how concerned are non-Londoners (the rest of the country). I expect they have seen worse and it doesn't register on their radar.
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When you see it every day you don't notice the squalor. And what about the Paris slums? will be the answer.
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Doesn't do much for the economy!
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It is not yet undisputed to the voters. And perhaps not as much to the establishment either, as Starmer is still thinking of the UK as capable of being world beating. You can't be world beating if you are poor(er). A lot needs to change and I can't see it happening.
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Starmer.
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Starter still thinking in terms of world beating. You can't be world beating and poor.