THE BRITISH THREAD II

Hey, a very good performance from Saints, and a reality check for Villa.

They need to fix the system so you guys don't keep wasting 3 posts from every single page on bumps.

(Sorry, I've no comment on the sports. Team sports are incomprehensible to me. But here is one of your bumps.)

Oddly, a post by Miriam somebody about a female politician coming out (Guardian) keeps disappearing as I try to link it.
Maybe it's my computer.

Et voila.

Airbus thinks that there is a reasonable chance that the Brits will leave the EU

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32820717

Greece
spain
Italy
Some say Germany
UK

The EU certainly seems to be in trouble, given that all these countries might be leaving.

a) Airbus warns investment at risk if UK leaves EU, like many other British and European companies did before.
b) your list is nonsense, since besides some Eurosceptics no-one else got the idea

So are you arguing that the BBC has gotten so bad that its editors now present non news as news?? Pretty clearly you are.

Either we get a different version of the BBC here in Europe or my English diminished over night.

You don't wrestle with a pig, because you get covered in filth, and the pig enjoys it.

Germany wont leave .
Greece may get kicked out .
Spain and Italy may stagger on for a while .
The UK has always been ify about being in it from the get go .

No, (although I don't want to put words in his mouth)Walter seems to be arguing that you don't understand news reports, which is about par for the course. You thought the SNP were a right wing party after all.

We are going to be having a referendum on EU membership and businesses are setting out what they think the consequences of an EU exit are. There will be a lot more of this in the run up to the referendum.

Big firms by and large want to stay in, some small firms want to leave in the mistaken belief it will cut down on red tape. If anything it will have the opposite effect, if we want to continue trading with Europe we'll have to follow their regulations. Being outside the EU will mean we have no say over those regulations, and will probably mean more red tape as outsiders.

Immigration is another no brainer, Switzerland is outside the EU but a member of the European Free Trade Association. It has tried to limit the free movement of labour and is now subject to sanctions which will get steadily tougher. Britain will face the same consequences if it tries to limit free movement unilaterally regardless of whether or not we stay in the EU.

There's no procedure to get "kicked out" of the EU.
Using international law procedures, this only could be done, if there's a severe breach of (several) EU-treaties.

What is discussed, however, is that Greece might leave the Euro-currency.

Yes.

Would they ask Greece to leave ?

Since there's nothing in the treaty about leaving the Eurozone - neither prohibiting nor permitting it - "they" [who ever that is] might certainly ask Greece.

According to today's figures, the net migration to the UK soared to 318,000 in 2014 - Germany is expecting more than 550,000 asylum seekers and refugees this year, up from 200,000 in 2014. (The 'normal' net migration was about 450,000 in 2014.)

Three Queens in the Mersey tomorrow.

Not as good as Hamburg, but close.

White women wont breed . The work force is aging, birth rates are low and the economy is expanding . Solution for the rich : take in immigrants, but only those with an education . In short rob the poor countries . Enter stage left, the que jumpers . What to do with them....

When they were here people certainly noticed, there was quite a festival atmosphere. A lot of fun had by all.

That Bepp Splatter's days are surely numbered.

Why don't the Swiss authorities move in, clean out the stables?
It reflects badly on them, apart from everything else.