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    Oh dear (tm) Blair's EU deal...

    Here's the "deal". Blair gives the EU a extra billion of UK taxpayers' money, and in return, the rest of the EU will "review" CAP and the rest of the budget in three years time. Chirac won't have slept last night for laughing.

    Deal moves EU forward, says Blair

    What a weak, incompetent w**ker.

    #2
    I was going to post something about this yesterday. Looks like England just got f*cked up the arse by Blair and all for the possibility of a review sometime down the line.

    I can tell you right now that the Frogs will not give up their subsidies...and in fact in a few years Im banking on them still having their farming subsidies when I retire to run a chateau somewhere in France where the frogs will pay me not to grow grapes, olives and sheet

    Mailman

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      #3
      The BBC seem quite laid back about it, but Blair's getting a big bashing in Have Your Say.

      The Sun has a bit of a go though: TONY Blair gambled £7billion of YOUR money last night on an EU budget bet that will win Britain NOTHING.

      He's caved in for personal reasons - to curry favour with Europe - but it's ironic that the Europeans think he's a wnaker as well.

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        #4
        look lads,

        I think you're all taking this a little too seriously

        surprising you are only just beginning to realise that
        the EU is about the redistribution of wealth from the
        richer members to the benefit of the poorer members

        take central europe for example, it is amazing to see the
        EU sponsored activity going on over there like new and
        reconstructed railway lines for high speed rail, new motorways,
        water and sewage systems

        you should feel good about the effects the UK contribution is having
        on the quality of life for people in other EU member states

        it's not all about money, money doesn't make you happy and if it
        wasn't spent on the EU it would be spent elsewhere and you'd all
        still be moaning anyway

        look at the tremendous effect EU sponsorship has had on places
        like Portugal and Spain, and Southern Ireland, and now Easter Europe

        more of it

        cheers

        Milan.

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          #5
          furthermore the funniest thing from all this,

          is that blair pushed for the new europe countries to join the EU so that combined they could weaken the position of French and Germans and now they for example the Poles are teaming up with the Franch against blair

          you have to see the funny side

          Milan.

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            #6
            Originally posted by milanbenes
            you have to see the funny side
            You are right milan, it is very funny. For many years Blair has tried to become Europe's great statesman, but the Europeans have sussed him as a wan ker.

            One of the few good things that the Tories have done in opposition is forced him to hold referendums on the constitution and the Euro, to stop him selling us down the river.

            Look forward to more Blair giveaways.

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              #7
              The European Parliament realised pretty early on in the rotating presidency that Blair is all mouth and no trousers - shame the Great British Public didn't - but then again most people don't spend their life decoding spin back into truth.

              Such is the level of deceit from the top down that even the Westminster Parliament got hoodwinked into supporting the Iraq war. At this point I was dismayed - because it meant the last check and balance on New Labour failed.

              Not suprisingly we are seeing the demise of New Labour, not from the opposition, but from inside.

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                #8
                milans precious europe

                Originally posted by milanbenes
                look lads,

                I think you're all taking this a little too seriously

                surprising you are only just beginning to realise that
                the EU is about the redistribution of wealth from the
                richer members to the benefit of the poorer members

                take central europe for example, it is amazing to see the
                EU sponsored activity going on over there like new and
                reconstructed railway lines for high speed rail, new motorways,
                water and sewage systems

                you should feel good about the effects the UK contribution is having
                on the quality of life for people in other EU member states

                it's not all about money, money doesn't make you happy and if it
                wasn't spent on the EU it would be spent elsewhere and you'd all
                still be moaning anyway

                look at the tremendous effect EU sponsorship has had on places
                like Portugal and Spain, and Southern Ireland, and now Easter Europe

                more of it

                cheers

                Milan.
                Milan, you wont hera a word said against your precious Europe will you?
                It may interest you to know that the biggest recipients from the EU handouts are the wealthy contries like Belgium Luxembourg Ireland while poor countries like Cyprus are net contributors. France gets twice as much from the EU as Britain does.

                Although you are right in many ways to qustion why we should get so het up by what amounts to the handling of 1% of the GDP of the EU, it is very much the thin end of a socialist/large state big tax no illiberal wedge. To say that the EU redistributes wealth from rich to poor is a lie

                It may be OK that for a trivial £100 billion the fact the accountants for the EU have refused to sign off the ast 11 years accounts, just imagine what will happen if this superstate in waiting is allowed to grow and take over the duties of individual sovereign states?

                The widely acknowledged criminalaty of the CAP is impoverishing many farmers in 3rd world countries as subsidised EU food is dumped abroad. There is no excuse for this.

                The EU should be setting rules to create an environment of competition and trade, it should not be a redistributor of wealth.
                Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                  #9
                  The EU should be setting rules to create an environment of competition and trade, it should not be a redistributor of wealth.
                  Why not? It's only fair after all!

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                    #10
                    oh yes,

                    good one DA, open up the agricultural markets to saturation for globalisation

                    with your policies the only thing the majority of UK residents can look forward to is a future of earning 5.05GBP per hour (aka the maximum wage), as through competition nobody will be able to get any more than that for anything they do, just look at the other thread, the baltics in East Anglia, they are all happy to work for 5.05GBP per hour, what future does that give the local people - priced out of the housing market by the townies driving prices up and priced out of the jobs market by the Eastern Europeans driving prices down

                    and now you want to do the same with agriculture

                    Milan.

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