Responding to Jerry: The EU, prosperity and peace in Europe
Jerry wrote:
“In truth, I associate the Community more with the longest period of peace and prosperity this continent has ever known. Since 1945, the Germans haven't invaded any other countries, not even little ones. That's got to be good.”
I’m with you on the prosperity, Jerry. We hopefully won’t have to worry about food shortages again for a while.
Don’t take the apparent prosperity for granted though. The French economy, for example, is in a crap state - which may why President Sarkozy inserted the end-of-free-market-competition clause to last week’s mandate (open and free markets being one of the principles of the Common Market, that quaint thing the UK had a referendum on 32 years ago).
When individual economies start taking a downturn, the one-size-fits-all policies of the ECB have the potential to do more harm than good.
As for the peace, it’s funny how people think of the EU when they should be thinking of NATO. Just a coincidence the UK still has more troops in Germany than Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Falklands and Gibraltar combined.
It’s as though the Marshall Plan, Soviet Union and Cold War never existed!
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Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 23/06/07 18:27:00 | David Giles |
Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 23/06/07 18:42:00 | Jerry Makides |
Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 23/06/07 18:46:00 | Jan Jarvis |
Re:Re:Ireland to hold Referendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 23/06/07 18:49:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Referendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 23/06/07 19:06:00 | Helen Fogarth |
Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Referendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 23/06/07 19:10:00 | Jan Jarvis |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Referendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 23/06/07 19:17:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Referendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 23/06/07 22:02:00 | Jan Jarvis |
media manipulation | 23/06/07 22:18:00 | Jerry Makides |
Re:media manipulation | 25/06/07 11:18:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Referendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 25/06/07 12:23:00 | David Giles |
Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 24/06/07 09:24:00 | Peter G Boardman |
Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 24/06/07 10:21:00 | Peter John |
Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 24/06/07 22:03:00 | Richard Greenhough |
Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 25/06/07 12:36:00 | Will Watson |
Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 25/06/07 13:46:00 | Richard Greenhough |
Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 25/06/07 13:54:00 | Helen Fogarth |
After Iraq, can we trust Blair anymore ? | 25/06/07 14:28:00 | David Giles |
Re:After Iraq, can we trust Blair anymore ? | 25/06/07 14:49:00 | Jonathan Bingham |
Re:Re:After Iraq, can we trust Blair anymore ? | 25/06/07 17:09:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:After Iraq, can we trust Blair anymore ? | 25/06/07 17:24:00 | Will Watson |
Re:A form of democracy | 25/06/07 17:44:00 | Richard Greenhough |
Re:Re:A form of democracy | 25/06/07 17:56:00 | Will Watson |
Re:After Iraq, can we trust Blair anymore ? | 25/06/07 17:50:00 | John Mc Cann |
Re:Re:After Iraq, can we trust Blair anymore ? | 25/06/07 17:53:00 | Richard Greenhough |
Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 25/06/07 14:31:00 | Will Watson |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 25/06/07 14:37:00 | Fraser Pearce |
A shift in sovereignty | 25/06/07 14:54:00 | Fraser Pearce |
“The proposals that we dare not present to them directly” | 25/06/07 15:11:00 | Fraser Pearce |
“Psychological terrorists” and the “new form of democracy” | 25/06/07 15:29:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Britain has not had a Referendum on Europe since 6th June 1975 | 25/06/07 18:12:00 | David Giles |
Re:Britain has not had a Referendum on Europe since 6th June 1975 | 25/06/07 19:53:00 | Guy Lambert |
Same old conservatives | 26/06/07 09:15:00 | Stephen Thornton |
It's not about the Conservatives | 26/06/07 11:27:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Re:Same old conservatives | 26/06/07 13:19:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Same old conservatives | 26/06/07 14:00:00 | Stephen Thornton |
Re:Re:Re:Same old conservatives | 26/06/07 16:53:00 | David Giles |
Re:What we voted on in 1975 | 26/06/07 14:19:00 | Richard Greenhough |
The devil's in the detail | 26/06/07 16:40:00 | Fraser Pearce |
It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 26/06/07 20:38:00 | David Giles |
Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 26/06/07 21:56:00 | John Mc Cann |
Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 26/06/07 22:20:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 26/06/07 23:01:00 | Jerry Makides |
Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 08:57:00 | Guy Lambert |
Responding to Jerry: “The end of democracy” | 27/06/07 12:17:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Responding to Jerry: “totalitarianism” | 27/06/07 12:27:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Responding to Jerry: “Loss of freedom” | 27/06/07 12:36:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Responding to Jerry: The EU, prosperity and peace in Europe | 27/06/07 12:54:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 12:59:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 13:17:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Re:Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 15:55:00 | Guy Lambert |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 18:02:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 18:53:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 21:39:00 | Guy Lambert |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 21:47:00 | John Mc Cann |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 21:52:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 22:03:00 | John Mc Cann |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It maybe called a Treaty but its the same Constitution | 27/06/07 22:54:00 | Guy Lambert |
Legal opinion wanted | 27/06/07 23:16:00 | Peter John |
Re:Legal opinion wanted | 27/06/07 23:40:00 | John Mc Cann |
Re:Re:Legal opinion wanted | 28/06/07 09:57:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Re:Re:Re:Legal opinion wanted | 28/06/07 10:52:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Legal opinion wanted | 28/06/07 12:36:00 | Colin Jordan |
The threat to the British Constitution and Parliament | 28/06/07 17:46:00 | David Giles |
Re:The threat to the British Constitution and Parliament | 28/06/07 22:33:00 | Guy Lambert |
Re:Re:The threat to the British Constitution and Parliament | 29/06/07 00:05:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Legal opinion wanted | 29/06/07 11:08:00 | David Giles |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Legal opinion wanted | 29/06/07 12:22:00 | Fraser Pearce |
A Good Week to Bury Really Bad News | 29/06/07 17:59:00 | David Giles |
Labour Party calls for Referendum | 30/06/07 17:22:00 | David Giles |
Trade Union calls for Referendum | 11/07/07 20:24:00 | David Giles |
Re:Trade Union calls for Referendum | 16/10/07 22:02:00 | David Giles |
Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 04/07/07 19:35:00 | Peter G Boardman |
Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 04/07/07 20:36:00 | Helen Fogarth |
Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 04/07/07 22:25:00 | Will Watson |
Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 05/07/07 08:25:00 | Peter John |
Re:Re:Re:Ireland to hold Refendum on new EU Treaty - should the UK ? | 05/07/07 18:46:00 | David Giles |
EU to pay Wine Producers to give up producing bad wine | 06/07/07 18:14:00 | David Giles |
For Guy: France, Germany and the stability pact | 12/07/07 11:19:00 | Fraser Pearce |
Re:For Guy: France, Germany and the stability pact | 12/07/07 12:22:00 | Guy Lambert |
Britain's Seat on the UN Security Council | 05/08/07 20:07:00 | David Giles |
Re:Britain's Seat on the UN Security Council | 05/08/07 20:29:00 | Colin Jordan |
Re:Re:For Guy: France, Germany and the stability pact | 06/08/07 15:12:00 | David Giles |
Can we trust Gordon Brown on this issue ? | 15/10/07 18:36:00 | David Giles |
Referendum | 17/10/07 09:22:00 | Brendan McCarthy |