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briantrumpet
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If you don't think that the relationship with the EU is topical while Trump is torching global trade, I can't help you.
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If you don't think that the relationship with the EU is topical while Trump is torching global trade, I can't help you.
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briantrumpet
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Since elsewhere in NCAP the choices of the BBC have been mentioned, it now seems that heat pumps are off limits for presenters expressing an opinion in outside work.
Stevo 666
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What about the point regarding which country we trade with the most? Any thoughts on that?
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briantrumpet
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You're doing that Brevity thing of denying that the EU Single Market is a single market. Anyway, the US is shutting up shop, so it's moot anyway.
Stevo 666
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You're confused again. The EU isn't a country, is it?
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briantrumpet
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Of course it's not, but it is a Single Market, isn't it? You know, the whole point of why Margaret Thatcher was such a big part of setting it up, and why, now we're out of it, it, we can't trade with it as, er, a single market, which we could do when we were in it. Negotiating that ongoing relationship is very much current news.
Even the IEA is realising that they need to disown backing Brexit.
C R
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If you are reduced to semantics to make your point ...
bobzmyunkle
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The EU isn't a country. I agree. Now if you could just expand your point for the benefit of us slow witted people I'm sure it would be appreciated.
First Aspect
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The Beeb won't be able to report on itself at this rate, in case the BBC is controversial.
CXRAndy
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About as good a Rachel from accounts.
I understand she's in the running to be the first woman Pope 🤣
CXRAndy
Veteran
She didn't help set up the EU. She was around when it was the common market.
That was what it was meant to be a trading block
Except it was a boil the frog strategy to dissolve individual countries, their cultures and create a union of non identity citizens
See how it's turned out
bobzmyunkle
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Re: Papal Good Works
Creating new rules that should have been in place protecting people years and years ago to my mind is not creditworthy, just correcting shortcomings.
Smaller aims and achievements can say much more about an individual than just using position and achieving nothing.
Ian
I tend to regard the "good works" people do in the light of their personal sacrifie and resources. It's easy to sit at home as head of a massively wealthy organisation and say "Wars are bad" or "Sorry some of our priests turned out to be paedophiles and we protected them ...", Does the 30 secs that takes without any use of the organisation's money or resources make you a good person compared the the person who spend much of their time trying to raise a few £ to get the local deprived kids football field useable again, spending most of most weekends trying to maintain the ground so local kids have something to do ...
Creating new rules that should have been in place protecting people years and years ago to my mind is not creditworthy, just correcting shortcomings.
Smaller aims and achievements can say much more about an individual than just using position and achieving nothing.
Ian
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