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French president wants UK in the EU and warns of the consequences of leaving
French President Francois Hollande has said he wants the UK to stay in the EU - and warned of the “consequences” for immigration and the economy of leaving. A French government minister earlier suggested his country could end UK border controls in Calais. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules”.... I just want to say the truth - there will be consequences.”
Mar 04th, 2016 - 08:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0He is worried that it would open the floodgates for others to leave the increasingly imploding EU project.
Of course he does not want the UK to leave the EU as the UK is a major contributor to the EU coffers, as I understand it to the tune of £ 30 million per day. Who wouldn't?
Mar 04th, 2016 - 09:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0The best thing that could happen for the rest of the world was these two countries are destroyed in a deadly war between them.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 10:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Being threatened by the frogs is a sure sign it's time to leave the EU, I'm voting to leave regardless!
Mar 04th, 2016 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0What he was really saying is this:
Mar 04th, 2016 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0“You know I am a serial shagger, just like two shags Prescott, AND I cannot tell the truth even as my life depends upon it because if the stupid English piss off we will all be fucked as everybody else will be going and leaving this rat infested dismasted hulk we call the EU”
So there we have the truth at last!
Vote Leave!
The trouble is by threatening us it makes us more likely to do what we want.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0But all this would mean is if illegals enter our county through the chunnel.
It will be clear they are from France.
Should they ask for Asylum, we simply say, no you were in a SAFE country France. You had every opportunity to claim Asylum there, and did not...goodbye.
Brasileiro @ No:3 - Piss off you childish dick.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe France should have been a little more reasonable in the negotiations if they so want the UK to stay in the EU.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Threats are only issued when a person feels they have lost the situation.
France (and Italy) will be dropping out of the G10 in the coming years, whilst the UK will increase its rankings. Who cares what this economic basket case thinks?
Mar 04th, 2016 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can think of no way to irritate the Brits more than making threats of 'consequences'. I suspect that the BRexit group are laughing themselves stupid but as somebody else said what it actually demonstrates is French desperation.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A few weeks ago we had Enda going round telling everybody that BRexit would make no difference to Ireland whilst ignoring the (some say) estimated 85% of Irish exports going to the UK - nobody believed him either.
Hollande: “Eef you even zink about leafing, zere weel be consequences! We weel fart in your general direction !”
Mar 04th, 2016 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Geeeeeeeeee....
Mar 04th, 2016 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I soooo wish the Engrish to vote themselves out of the EU...
For two reasons...:
It would be good for Europe to get rid of that American poodle...
It would almost insure Alba's independence..
@12 Think... think again.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Europe will be worse off without Great Britain to the tune of many billions of pounds (you know... pounds sterling... a currency that is worth having unlike many South American currencies).
It's Scotland, not Alba (just like it's the Falklands, not Malvinas). They had their “once in a lifetime chance” to vote for independence. They didn't win so they are still part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. No one says they will get another independence referendum, they can only think about it.
Francois Hollande can go **** himself. You can join him.
@6
Mar 04th, 2016 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We could always blow up the chunnel if the French try to look the other way and let anyone through. A bit annoying as I do prefer travelling through the chunnel than going by ferry, but c'est la vie, as they say in France.
Of course it's not at all disconcerting that there will be consequences to leaving Europe. No one in their right mind would think that there wouldn't be some kind of consequences. But the French President can't seem to actually name what these consequences will be, because he doesn't know. No one does, and no one will until it actually happens.
But it won't be all doom and gloom, unless your German or French, and suddenly find yourself having to foot the bill that the UK seems to have paying since we joined Europe.
But the UK wanting to leave Europe is all the fault of the Germans and French. The UK wanted sensible changes made to the bloated and corrupt EU red tape machine. Changes that would've made the EU more democratic, fairer and less corrupt for ALL members. But the Germans and French are happy with the status quo because they're the ones who benefit most from the system. Of course they do, they designed it to be that way.
And if the UK leaves then others will look and think, why the hell not, and leave too.
GB will pussy out.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All talk in here, but theyll crap their pants on polling day.
You love it too much.
If it's for lack of goodbye ...
Mar 04th, 2016 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bye bye England!
Every time David meets a leader, they threaten us,
Mar 04th, 2016 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How can a British prime minister stand by and let him and others threaten the British people,
This man is totally anti British,
The French and Germans and the rest just want to bleed us dry,
Seems David has already decided who will vote in this referendum, all his mates and world leaders,
A bloody disgrace,
On a lighter note, two Klingons, and a Vulcan standing next to David Cameron at the space centre stated that Britain would not be allowed into space if they vote to leave,
President trump said he would immediately dispatch Capt. Kirk to investigate this rubbish claim by the remain group.
The sooner we leave this insane greedy corrupt Europe the better.
@16
Mar 04th, 2016 - 09:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not that I would wish the Brazilian people any ill will, but it is your country that is falling apart right now, not mine,
Bad luck your if you are English!
Mar 04th, 2016 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Some of the detractors here need to learn the difference between Great Britain and England. When you've worked that one out, then and only then, should you try to be clever.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 11:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's like Japanese, all the same thing!
Mar 04th, 2016 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydRAb9cwHnA&index=39&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
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Mar 05th, 2016 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Huh...it's both....
Fàilte gu Alba....
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Failte_Scottish.jpg/250px-Failte_Scottish.jpg
Any action taken, or inaction, has advantages and consequences.
Mar 05th, 2016 - 03:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Staying in the EU will also have consequences, won't it?
Vote to leave, and be free
Mar 05th, 2016 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0vote to stay, and you will pay.
What consequences....
Mar 06th, 2016 - 02:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Either shut the tunnel or confiscate any European Lorry that is found to be concealing immigrants...
No British passport or visa means no Ferry crossing either...
The immigration problem will be yours France and the EU's ...they caused it with their free movement...
so...unless they can walk on water....last time I checked this is an island....
...and shove your single market....the UK is in a trade deficit with the EU....it will be the EU that will come begging for UK trade....
There is nothing in the EU that can't be bought elsewhere...
...and what is the average EU trade tariff anyway...?
It's 1%...
I'm sure that will be easily recovered by not paying £55 million a day to be part of that single market trade club....
...and like ....cheese eating surrender monkeys can warn anyone...
(25) Mr. Voice
Mar 06th, 2016 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Does your economic's centered reasoning mean that you'll be voting for Alba's independence in the next coming referendum?
Threats
Mar 06th, 2016 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0EU to steal our coastline: Brussels to bring in new super-coastguard to overrule UK
THE EU has drawn up plans to seize control of the British coastguard service as it creates a Europe-wide border force.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/650141/EU-coastline-Brussels-super-coastguard-UK-migrant-crisis
Can you just imaging SPAIN patrolling British waters,
And Gibraltar and the Falkland’s waters.
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France to hire FERRIES to send Calais migrants to Britain within HOURS of EU Out vote
MIGRANTS living in shanty camps in northern France will be put on ferries and sent to Britain the day after a vote to leave the EU, a French mayor warned last night.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/650141/EU-coastline-Brussels-super-coastguard-UK-migrant-crisis
and more threats,
one thinks it wont be the British withdrawing from the corrupt EU, that will start this imaginary WW3, its the bloody stupid corrupt incompetent European leaders.
just my opinion.
@6
Mar 06th, 2016 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The trouble is by threatening us it makes us more likely to do what we want.”
Seems France share Argentina's 'macho' mentality whilst ignoring the UK psyche.
These Europeans are doing their best to persuade the UK to vote out-perhaps our money isn't good enough for them, and they think that other countries can replace the UK as a major contributor...except there are few countries putting in as much money as us-ooops!
@10
“I can think of no way to irritate the Brits more than making threats of 'consequences'. I suspect that the BRexit group are laughing themselves stupid but as somebody else said what it actually demonstrates is French desperation.”
Yes, shutting the door after the horse has bolted comes to mind.
@14
“But it won't be all doom and gloom, unless your German or French, and suddenly find yourself having to foot the bill that the UK seems to have paying since we joined Europe.”
Amazingly none of them have worked this out yet-that UK pays in more than it gets out, and if our coastline is off limits to other European trawlers, our fishing industry will improve dramatically and the Spanish will have to send ALL their boats to the..(you've guessed it) Falkland Islands!
@25
“No British passport or visa means no Ferry crossing either...
The immigration problem will be yours France and the EU's ...they caused it with their free movement...”
Correct, we can just about turn the immigrants back to France-Hollande hasn't worked that one out yet.
@19
“Bad luck your if you are English!”
Or Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish?
If you were intelligent to realise it's the UK-how is it bad luck to stop paying the scroungers of Europe £6 billion a year and spend that money on the UK instead? That sounds like a welcome windfall!
EU started on a wrong footing by not considering the economic issues of the individual - specific - neighbors. Hence the EU had to “help” those members who are economically weak.
Mar 07th, 2016 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In other words, in the absence of The Minimum Economic Requirement to join the EU; all sorts of economically weak neighbors joined the wagon to get the benefits. Hence as a group, EU has become more vulnerable to the economic fluctuations, in safety, security, health, migration, etc. issues by accepting the liabilities of the poor neighbors.
They can find strength in the unity; only after the weaker neighbors are thrown out.
(29) LOBOMAU
Mar 07th, 2016 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mostly correct what you say...
And guess.which Kingdom was THE staunchest promotor of such failed policy?
A little help for you... It starts with “United”...
And why?...
Google it!
We all make mistakes,
Mar 07th, 2016 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0joining the EU was ours.
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