goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).
Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.
cheers GF.
hilary
- 08 May 2013 14:56
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CC,
I can think of a fat Spanish waiter who keeps a home on Merseyside. He'd be a good candidate for the vacant Everton job. :o)
Chris Carson
- 08 May 2013 14:57
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GF - LOL !!!!
Chris Carson
- 08 May 2013 15:00
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Hils - Priceless :O) Mind despite the flack not done too badly for your lot.
hilary
- 08 May 2013 15:15
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The FSW is benefiting from a truce right now, CC. Now that we know the Special One is coming back home.
TANKER
- 08 May 2013 15:31
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giggs to be new manager
goldfinger
- 08 May 2013 15:46
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Moyes is already appointed, and was earlier this week.......
please dont ask.
goldfinger
- 08 May 2013 15:49
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Cameron speaking in the house.........penny hasnt dropped with him as per norm.
Way out of touch. Back benchers visualy cringing.
TANKER
- 08 May 2013 18:01
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Holidaymakers face being denied medical help or having to pay huge hospital bills because clinics in cash-strapped EU nations are refusing to treat them.
British tourists have been urged not to rely on the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), which is supposed to give all EU citizens access to state medical care in member countries.
Hundreds are being held hostage by hospitals who are rejecting the cards and demanding travel insurers cover the cost of medical care.
the uk is not in the EU only for paying in billions
our workers can not work in the eu unless they pay private health insurance
immigrants come to the uk and get it free .
it must end send them home if they do not have insurance they should not be allowed in to the uk
Haystack
- 08 May 2013 18:18
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cynic
It is going to be very difficult for Cameron to get a better deal from the EU. He might improve things, but the public are now heading for wanting a free trade area only. The UK still has the island mentality and that does not sit well with EU federalism.
After I was in Westminster this morning, I went to my friends Italian restaurant for a plate of pasta etc. It was interesting watching the news on Italian TV and discussing politics, especially the EU. There were quite few other Italian friends there for lunch. They mostly liked the idea of a United States of Europe and welcomed federalism and the Euro. I find this is quite common among Italians. This not the same with lots of other countries. The Netherlands don't like federalism. Strangely, the German people are not happy with an enlarged EU and don't like the Euro. They feel that Germany is paying for all of the EU's problems.
By the way, I also watched stage 5 of the Giro D'Italia cycle race live on Italian TV.
Fred1new
- 08 May 2013 18:36
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Yes.
If they have a car accident, scrape them up and post them home. That will teach them not to come here.
Same if pregnant immigrant or holiday maker attends A and E with an abortion.
If they can't pay don't treat them, chuck them out on the street.
Same for UK citizens on holiday, if they have an accident or in the more elderly a stroke.
Make perfect sense to me.
Insular and bloody stupid.
There is a difference between chronic and acute medical disorders and care given and that is taken care for within present EU regulations. Check your insurances for holidays abroad.
Even, if the recipient in the above is from outside the EU, common decency would suggest to give emergency treatment to be appropriate and question the financial arrangements afterwards.
Fred1new
- 08 May 2013 18:52
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Some Germans don't want a Federal Union and they generally are from the far right of politics as in France with Le Pen and in this country with UKIP and the looney right of the tory party.
The more moderate see the social and financial advantages of more integration, rather than becoming a fringe member, hoping to pick up crumbs.
Just consider how more legislature federal integration will effect the organisation of Military Defence and how sourcing of Equipment will develop.
Probably, sourcing contracts will be from within the EU federal group whenever possible. Costing of defence may be conceived excluding UK.
Think of the possibilities of "trade" barriers, even if only driven out of convenience rather than EU legislation.
Just examples.
Isolationism comes at a cost.
Haystack
- 08 May 2013 19:21
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That's not so. It is the average Germans that are fed up with federalism. In particular they are fed up with being the wallet of Europe. Military equipment is already developed Europe wide and has been for more than 30 years as was the Tornado. Italy built the wings. There won't be trade barriers as the EU needs our market. It won't even be isolation. It will be a trade agreement. There are countries that deal with the EU that way, such as Switzerland.
If you remember, it was called the Common Market.
Haystack
- 08 May 2013 19:57
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Norway is not a member state of the EU, but is closely associated with the Union through its membership in the European Economic Area (EEA), in the context of being a European Free Trade Association (EFTA) member.
Norway's trade is dominated by the EU and Norway is the EU's 4th most important import partner. Norway to EU trade amounted to €91.85 billion in 2008, primarily energy supplies (only 14.1% is manufactured products). The EU's exports to Norway amounted to €43.58 billion, primarily manufactured products.
Stan
- 08 May 2013 20:44
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TANKER
- 08 May 2013 20:46
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I have a list for mr cameron of ILLEGALS living in my area and working on the side .
and should be deported .
all they need to do is go to all the restrautrants they are full of them
and close them down till they pay the fine
greekman
- 09 May 2013 08:15
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Hi Haystack,
I am afraid that no matter how many fact and figures you can show to be proven regarding the EU, there will still be the same posters trying to convince you that black is white.
Greek.
TANKER
- 09 May 2013 08:17
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Poland's health care ranks 27th out of 34 medical services included in the 6th edition of the Euro Health Consumer Index (EHI): and it is continuing to deteriorate.
they will not treat any non polish person unless they have insurance they will tell them
to go home . read more
goldfinger
- 09 May 2013 08:47
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SHOCK.....Labour goes from a 8% lead to a 11% lead.
Was it the queens speech.........one of shortest in history.......
electionista@electionista54m
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 27%, LAB 38%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 17%