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Hammond pledges new relationship with EU, reflecting the concerns of the British people
Incoming Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond praised his predecessor and promised to lay the ground for “a new relationship between Britain and the EU; one that promotes our national interest and reflects the concerns of the British people”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesEU reform is not going to happen in afraid, strong words but they will be meaningless in Brussels. I am enjoying the more euro sceptic tone, but only UKIP can provide the goods and they are getting my vote next year.
Jul 16th, 2014 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good speech. Hope he follows up on it.
Jul 16th, 2014 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0no need for UKIP. They are good fun as a sideshow, and for putting the wind up the complacent major parties, but wouldn't want them to have any real power.
Here are the new planks of the “relationship”. “Freedom of movement” ends at the continental coast. Beyond that are pistols, rifles, machine guns, cannon, missiles, torpedos. Armed helicopters, combat aircraft and warships. The only way is DOWN. Glug, glug, glug. Can't “complain” if the crabs are already picking you apart. Brussels “bureaucrats” will need to be pro-British or never return to gravy-train land. “British bomb Brussels. Strasbourg is next”. Get OUT of OUR country. There. That's not a euro-sceptic. That's an EU-hater. The EU is a 21st century revival of a combined Third/Fourth Reich and a French Empire. All noted for corruption, criminality, degeneracy, deviance, genocide, horror, larceny, mendacity, murder, perversion, xenophobia.
Jul 16th, 2014 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Far more important than anything in “latam”. Europe is really the “cradle of civilisation”. It had slimy, discarded entrails. Italy, Spain. Germany never managed “civilisation” given that it didn't exist until the late 19th century. France was half and half. Napoleon was from Corsica. A bandit island. There really isn't anything in “Europe” worth British interest. Toss Europe off. Britain has always been so far ahead. It still is!
concerns of the British people
Jul 16th, 2014 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0back the peoples opinion, and we will be on our way out,
ignore the peoples opinion, and we will be robbed again and again, until we get out.
This is just a vanilla speech designed to draw people who want a referendum on British membership of the EU away from UKIP.
Jul 16th, 2014 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Tories will never take us out of the EU even if they give us a referendum and more than 50% of people say that they want us to leave.
Their job is the same job as all of the main parties, steer British membership of the EU through rough waters, take the punches and roll with them on behalf of the the EU Commission. Do that and they get a reward, a not insubstantial reward and so they have too much to lose.
The Tory strategy seems to be to play to the UK audience whilst rolling over for the EU to have their bellies tickled when abroad, all the while forgetting that they are being watched very closely wherever they go.
They want to keep us in the EU whilst making it look like they might lead us out, or at least let us have a say. They are tightrope walking. Leading us up the primrose path.
Personally I don't know what it will take to get us out and I fear that if we chicken out then our kids, or our grand kids will be left to do the dirty work. And that scares me sh!tless if I am honest because it took the Irish 700 years to get shot of us Brits. 700 years and a whole load of violence.
What a future to look forward to.
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Jul 16th, 2014 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think your analogy between Irish independence and the UK's ties with the EU is somewhat misplaced.
In historical terms the Irish have not been a republic for a very long time at all, who knows how they will feel in years to come when every decision made for their hard fought republic is made in Brussels, yet the republicans in the north are actually architects of their own destiny through their own devolved and democratic assembly. Now that would be funny wouldn't it, Northern Ireland would actually be more Irish than the Republic!
Yes the irony did not escape me but I felt that I had already said enough.
Jul 17th, 2014 - 08:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0She floats! HMS Queen Elizabeth moves for first time
Jul 17th, 2014 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/10885
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It was a brief, but very smooth, maiden voyage for #HMSQueenElizabeth
https://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/10885
very nice pictures.
And boy would those Euro fanatics like to get their hands on it,
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