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That’s true. Before social media though some cultures needed civilising in respect of their practices connected to death….. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Sati_Regulation,_1829

Sure, but there are political ups and downs here, and then there’s the EU…….. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/italy-political-turmoil-headache-europes-central-bank-87115885 “So along with the rate increase, ECB President Christine Lagarde is expected to announce a financial backstop...

Compare and contrast grasshopper……… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance#:~:text=The%20Anglo%2DPortuguese%20Alliance%20(or,still%20in%20force%20by%20politics...

Paying more for energy and other consumables is the reality of “standing with Ukraine”. Those damping their mattress must have missed the memo. One way or another it’s suck it up time unless the general view of the electorate to the Ukraine situation is, meh, let the Russkis get on with it…….etc.

If the FA, UEFA, FIFA had balls (no pun intended) then the future of football would combine men and women in same team….the end of gender apartheid in football, simply a football team. We would have to start with targeted quotas……like public companies have with minimum numbers of Women...

To be fair there’s plenty that currently don’t pay for the BBC licence fee due to that institution’s insatiable demands for money off the poor………it looks like this thread is turning into a who you should and shouldn’t boo isn’t it?

Too right, just more work shy scousers…….you hum it and I will boo it.

I think, as this thread proves it’s really the traditional English working class that are despised the most. To quote Orwell….. “In intention, at any rate, the English intelligentsia are Europeanized. 
They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow. In the 
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The affects ot COVID and economic performance will vary across countries in any event, some countries industries will be more resilient to the effects of lockdown, in some respect this is why the EU will always fail when faced with a crisis like COVID...

Karl Marx had it right…….. "Ireland constantly sends her own surplus to the English labour market, and thus forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class... This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its...

When asked what he feared most in his career as PM, Harold Macmillan said, “events dear boy, events.” And so it is now, and just like their weak to response to COVID, the EU needs to respond to a looming gas crisis. We know how it will be dealt with in the playbook……..it will be more EU...

Similar, I go there at least once a year and have been for many years. The interesting thing is that in my experience there are plenty of born and bred scousers not happy with the way their Labour Council has and continues to work, the comments on liverpool echo are always worth a look...

Good old Sun reading Mick Lynch……Tory luvvie. https://mobile.twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1539731821180731393 Who would have thought it……

I am not disputing the article, I am saying that isn’t applying in Portugal……again. According to travel adviser Paul Charles, CEO of the PC Agency, "Portugal is obviously leading the way in recognising that they have to process vast numbers of British visitors as seamlessly as possible...

Tut tut…..this bullshit is directly from the EU, over 800 infringements they are investigating of which Germany is at the top table. I couldn’t care less it’s up to the EU member states to decide what they want to spend their money on, however capitalism will out, and with Germany now in trade...

If people want to got to France from Dover, and accept all that entails then that’s their call…….there are other routes to France as there are other countries to holiday in. If you go to Thailand you may get malaria, so you will need to get a malaria jab. If you don’t want to get a jab or risk...

If I can get into the EU without the bureaucracy implemented by the French, then its France I would avoid. https://www.madeira-web.com/en/news/fast-track-entry-uk-tourists-to-portugal.html According to travel adviser Paul Charles, CEO of the PC Agency, "Portugal is obviously leading the way in...

The evidence for Germany is that it is one of the poorer adherents to the demands of the single market…. https://single-market-scoreboard.ec.europa.eu/governance-tools/infringements_en What a racket eh? Yeah the French, economic powerhouse and glorious history innit……bonnet du douche Rodney.

I was in Portugal recently, no drama straight through egates at Faro no passport stamp, some friends went through Sunday no drama but they did get passports stamped. It appears then Portugal has taken a pragmatic view on how to manage tourist flow. Good for them. I understand Malta have taken...

It would only make sense to the most passionate EU enthusiasts for German car manufacturers to make exports difficult to one of their biggest European market now they cannot export to Russia...