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  1. 1 minute ago, bonzerpom said:

    They must now formulate a plan to make UK fail.If they dont the EU will tear apart like a soggy pizza.

     

    You mean you will perfectly understand that the E.U. may be obliged to use this stratagem, to be able to survive.

    I am personally convinced they wouldn't have to.

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  2. Just now, Laughing Gravy said:

    The Guardian Newspaper, please.

     

    Along with the Independent, closely followed by the Observer these papers are anti British and pro EU. You claim to be 'old school'. how about broadening your very narrow reading material and give yourself some credibility. in your unbiased view.

    You read my post, but clearly didn't understand it.

    Try again.

    But here it is :

    It says I don't believe what The Guardian wrote about the U.K. being a corrupt country.

     

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  3. 9 minutes ago, puipuitom said:

    NO!

     

    We have three seperate powers.

     

    Sorry, it seems I had a wrong idea about its functioning. 

    Shows this E.U. thing is really not my cup of tea. 

    Thanks to refer to Wikipedia. 

    I will pass however, but restrain to further post  about its way to operate. 

    Maybe an advice for others here too. 

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  4. 6 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

    If you ask @luckyluke and his man on the street  do you want to pay more for a product built into the price protection for the producer  or do you want to pay for a product based on what is costs excluding any price protection

    Personally it can vary for me, I like the Belgian Herve cheese,, but certainly the Stilton.

    When buying I don't care if it is protected or not, I never bought because of the " nationality" of the product, I buy the product for what it means to me.

    I will never buy something which I don't like, even if it is Belgian.

  5. 1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

     

    Maybe you don't notice the tariffs that are applied to many goods from outside the EU? You'd probably notice the 31% import duty you'd have to pay on something like a Harley Davidson if you wished to purchase one. Maybe you don't run a SME that struggles with the protectionist barriers that have been put up to create difficulties dealing with customers and suppliers from outside the single market?

     

    In terms of a direct tax on EU citizens, it will be a few more years before the EU has those types of powers so you can look forward to that. The British no longer need to concern themselves with such centralization and federalism.

    I understand that, however it is rare that a man in the street buy a Harley, rare that he runs a S.M.E..

    Furthermore I am convinced that the E.U. not only create negative rules, there must be also positive ones for the ones running a SME, or/and for those able to buy a Harley, and for the rest of us.

    There may be a day when the E.U. will impose direct taxes.

    As per now this must be catalogued as speculations.

    Some will pretend it is a copycat of "Project Fears".

  6. 12 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

    How do you vote for the EU Commission? They are the ones that initiate EU laws.

     

    Or is Belgium not subject to EU law?

    That's where most of us have a problem with this E.U. thing.

    We experience in our daily life the laws and regulations voted by our government, for us Belgians.

    We haven't a really view on those E.U. laws.

    Never there is an announcement like :

    "due to the E.U., every Belgian citizen will now have to pay 1% more taxes"

    or

    " thanks to the E.U., every Belgian citizen will now receive 1% rebate on his taxes"

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

    So what you are saying and what many of all know the EU is not a democracy. You can't vote them out. Another great reason that the UK has left the EU.

    Yes and no.

    We can vote for the members of the European Parliament, we have no influence in their vote afterwards.

    We were not asked if we wanted Mrs. von der Leyen, the members of the European Parliament voted yes or no for her. ( She won with a crape majority, by the way ).       

    In Belgium we vote every 4 years for a government, once established, it can do what it want.

    Only after 4 years we can express our opinion again.

     

    I don't know in details how it works in the U.K., but pretty sure it must be something similar. 

     

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  8. 9 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

    We can vote for the people who make our laws.

    In Belgium we always could, before being member of the E.U., and now during.

    Well nothing simple in Belgium, we voted for a new government the 26th. May 2019, a government was formed the 01 October 2020.

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  9. 13 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

    Well those 'hanger on countries' should start paying their way or most shouldn't have been given membership in the first place...

    The man in the street has no say in any of those things,

    we undergo.

    Every X years we can vote, and it stops there.

    After the results of the vote the wining parties ( the case in Belgium ) have free pass.

  10. Just now, Laughing Gravy said:

    if making a mistake admitting it.

    What if one consider he didn't make a mistake?

    After all what we discuss here, are interpretations, not facts.

    One may of course consider interpretations as facts, but both parties need to be agree on that.

     

    Example, if I stated erroneously that the Remainers won the Brexit Referendum, I would immediately apologize.

    However I stated that Leavers had different reasons to vote Leave and I gave 4 examples.

    I still don't see why I should apologize for this statement. 

     

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  11. 17 minutes ago, Hi from France said:

    what did the UK get in return?

    I don't expect a clear, comprehensive for everyone, list of what the E.U. and U.K. agreed.

    If such a thing even exist.

    But instead, vague, multi interpretable components, where both parties can claim, they not give in, even are the great winner.

    It is usually the way, and usually the base swallow it.

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  12. 1 minute ago, Laughing Gravy said:

    I see you are now replying to my posts. Still didn't get an apology.

     

    Anyway the UK has left the EU. It seems there has been a compromise.

     

    So you and the other EU lovers will be happy.

     

    I feel there are difficult times ahead for the EU.

    I explained you why I didn't found a reason to apologize. You didn't react, so I thought all was good and well, that you understood. 

     

    As mentioned, not really happy or unhappy to the fact there is a compromise, we had to accept any outcome. 

     

    There may be difficult times for the E.U. ahead indeed, we will have to wait & see in what measure. 

     

    On the other hand I don't think everything will going on without a hitch in the U. K. either. 

     

    But the best is for us all to be moderate optimistic, that the E.U. and the U.K. will doing rather well in the future. 

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