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@sir Actor wrote:
Can we have a sweep on Anscombe’s next grammatical error? 8)
(God – where would you start??? ….. Ed)
Probably not with three question marks.
Indeed. Shame on me!
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
Non EU investment flooded in…
You do have to wonder how much of that investment would have flooded in had Ireland not been part of the European Community, though. It strikes me as hubris to seek to minimise its effects.
Still, the result is in. I hope there might be a sense developing within Europe that the to go might be to be even more radical and try and properly engage the peoples of Europe.
You must live in the frozen wastes of the north. My pumpkins have been out for weeks. Romping away, they are.
Unless your name is John, an unusual moniker for a chapette, it’s still plagiarism. Someone else’s work presented as your own. An old trick of yours and, if my ‘dodgy’ recall is correct, the reason you first started directing your spite my way. Didn’t like being found out, did you? Still, your Munchausen syndrome isn’t really your fault. It’s not beyond me to let you have your fantasies uninterrupted, I suppose.
I think your delusions might be kicking in again, Esme, old girl. You’re right, of course, this is a debate about the Lisbon Treaty, which makes your astonishing, off-topic, spiteful attack all the more silly. I see the plagiarism is still a favourite tictac, though the full article seems to have a different slant to your edited, unaccredited highlights.
@esmeralda wrote:
Ah, Pikey. I’m glad to see that being asked to resign from one site and chastised on another for maliciously stalking my good self – even, in the light of my illness, wishing me dead, hasn’t made you bitter and vengeful, to the extent of posting opinions diametrically opposed to my own, just for the spite of it.
How interesting. Asked to resign? Chastised? Stalking? Wishing you dead? Please explain. Doesn’t sound like anything resembling real life to me. It sounds like the old Esme that, when losing an argument, resorts to personal attacks.
@esmeralda wrote:
I couldn’t have put it better meself!
I have no doubt.
However, Googling the views of obscure anarchist groups that vaguely reinforce your own ill thought out, knee jerk rants is a bit weak – especially from a self-proclaimed Scottish Nationalist. Nationalism and Makhnovist anarchism? Hilarity ensued.
Now, the unelected ‘President’ you mention. This is just an evolution of the current system. The role is largely administrative. We’re not talking about an American style presidency. Fear mongering guff. Similarly, the ‘Foreign Minister’, which is just a streamlining and amalgamation of two existing posts. In fact, the EU has explicitly addressed fears that this new post would undermine or conflict with national foreign policies.
As for Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, these are quite clearly not member nations and therefore not covered in the description of the stability that the EU has provided. Britain and Germany are not ‘refraining’ from an otherwise desperate impulse to attack each other. They are now linked in fraternal bonds of commerce, law and cooperation, as are France, Spain and Italy. A super achievement.
I don’t think anyone pretends that the EU is perfect, but it is an enterprise that seeks to elevate Europe from a truly sickening past. It is succeeding. It is also in its infancy and reformable – the Lisbon Treaty is a manifestation of that characteristic. The treaty aims to bolster the European Parliament, addressing concerns of not enough powerful direct representation for the people of Europe, as well as making the Charter of Fundamental Rights legally binding; extending dignity, freedoms, equality, solidarity, citizens’ rights and justice across the continent.
Multiculturalism and internationalism, amongst other high ideals, might be foolish, Utopian dreams to small minded creatures like yourself and I may indeed be a dreamer but I’m not the only one.
This is the final struggle
Let us stand together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human raceIreland and the UK joined at exactly the same time.
I think the whole thing has been one of the most marvellous projects ever conceived. I’ll tell you what the proles of Europe should be appreciative of – not getting sent off to butcher each other senselessly every generation or so in each others’ countries. There’s barely been a hint of bother between treaty members for over half a century. Magnifico.
As for social change, Britain’s people’s responses have been frankly strange. Credulous enough to believe nonsense about banana and gravy regulations made up by the likes of The Mail, they have been happy to be suspicious of progressive notes like the famous social chapter. ‘No, that’s right, Maggie. It’s our natural born right as freeborn Britons to be exploited by our employers, if that’s what we want. You tell them Diegos to take their workplace rules banning sixty hour weeks and tell them to shove them up their garlic wiffy backsides, the cheeky bastards.’
The internationalist spirit of the enterprise should also make a true socialist’s heart sing. Nations like Ireland and Portugal have benefitted immeasurably. The area’s poorest people elevated. Wundebar.
Encore.
