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I am not very good in accounts and I hate having problems with the taxman so I'd rather be safe then sorry. I think I pay around 40% but as said I allow these matters to be sorted by work (and wife)
PS when I needed an operation I got it sorted in Malta. The only relationship I had with the UK government is me giving them money.
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My guess is you don't know what Germany's trade surplus with the rest of the EU is or you missed where I quoted the figure. It is correct and you are wrong, what you do about that next is on you. You can try to suggest I made points I didn't make or you can go the previous route of just flat out insulting me but you won't change the fact that Germany is running a massive trade surplus with the rest of the EU countries.
The effect of EU policy is to move money at over 20 billion Euro's per month from poorer regions in the EU to the richest regions in the EU through those trade surpluses and supporters of the EU don't want to talk about that at all. As you are proving in this thread. There is nothing Robin Hood like about the EU. That is the point I've made and I think substantiated.
If you can't judge the EU by looking at the effect of probably its 3 biggest policies then how can you judge it?
The Euro.
The Single Market.
Common agricultural and fisheries Policy. (CAP)
What do you think your taxes pay for? Not just surgeons but things you obviously take for granted each day. It's quite tiring reading your obvious anti-england/UK shite, especially now knowing that you live here too. No fecking wonder so many wanted to stop immigration & voted out of the EU when there are foreign citizens living and working in the UK that have such a big issue with us.
Since when was devilish anti-UK? From what I can gather, like many of us he just thinks that Brexit is an act of moronic, pointless self-immolation.
I've noticed it through reading his posts on many different topics over the years. He'll seize any opportunity he can to take a pop.
I voted remain and I agree, it was stupid.
I am not complaining regarding paying taxes. Quite the contrary, I find paying taxes is important for a society to work and I was never stingy on that. All I am saying is that I am not a burden here. I am a relatively healthy person whose a professional and whose married to another professional. We bought our own property, we've got no children and we barely take anything from the UK in terms of benefits etc (I do my checkups in Malta). Quite the contrary we have invested in here and I convinced others to do the same solely because I shared the vision that London is the capital of Europe. I would be better off elsewhere but we preferred building a life here solely to be in London.
If the attitude change (and is changing) then I have no problems moving elsewhere. All I am saying is that for every action there's a consequence. If the UK closes the door to the continent then rest assured that the continent will shut the door to the UK. Which is exactly what's happening now.
People often forget that someone pays for the light in the street, garbage collection, pavement, etc...
I heard devilish doesn't even sing the national anthem!
I barely know the Maltese national anthem let alone the British one. All I know is that its written by some Catholic Priest and the wordings makes you cringe.
I used to pay less for a better service in Malta (ie daily collection of garbage, light in the street, GP service etc). The condition of the streets are a nightmare though
I think that is the basic requirement of a national anthem
The UK is crap, pass it on.
I think that is the basic requirement of a national anthem
No really, its horrible. Far more horrible then most anthems. Fr Karm should be unburied, his bones should be pissed upon and then reburied. That's how terrible it is.
Oh crap, Pocco will soon say Im anti-Maltese too
Could it be the case that I only speak in here of two topics which aren't England's strength and hasn't been so for quite some time? (ie football and politics)
What about the anthem from Lichtenstein?
I know about three anthems (British, Italian and Maltese) and they are hardly great (although I rate the British as the best of the lot). However the Maltese one is by far the worst. Music wise the finest anthem I've heard is the Russian one
Oh come now, 'rebellious scots to crush' is an excellent part of the national anthem, I'd have added quite a few more personally, given the chance.
Yeah, I know it's all made up, rather like a lot of other history really, it's just a bit of fun.
Yeah, I know it's all made up, rather like a lot of other history really, it's just a bit of fun.
The maltese anthem is a frigging prayer
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
Finally proof that brexit is bad
So the more EU money you get the more you voted to leave. Kinell. Many of the huge leave areas get 20 times as much EU money as the biggest stay voters.
That is going to smart when the money dries up and isn't replaced by Teresa.
That is going to smart when the money dries up and isn't replaced by Teresa.
I think we'd probably find that most areas that voted to remain don't actually get much EU money because they don't need it.
London, for example !
May: "We can't offer a running commentary to parliament on the Brexit negotiations"
The EU: "The negotiations will be utterly transparent"
http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/XT-21023-2017-INIT/en/pdf
The EU: "The negotiations will be utterly transparent"
http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/XT-21023-2017-INIT/en/pdf
That the inevitable flip side of the coin. The areas that need EU money get the most EU money (up to 1050 quid per oerson per year) and they are the areas that voted to leave and who are going to be fecked even more after Brexit.
Amazing.No they're not.
The biggest percentage of Leave voters in the UK, outside London, was Scotland - who Wee Krankie says are going to stay in the EU, doesn't she ? And even if she can't, all she needs to do is bring Scotland in line with England on Tuition Fees and Prescription costs and she will be able to continue supporting those in Scotland who have got used to living out of the EU's pocket.
Anyway....Interesting independent survey here - not the Daily HateMail or the UK edition of Pravda known as the Guardian.
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brexit-people-are-angry-but-looking-for-compromise-research-finds
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The most commonly cited example of a positive EU impact was no mobile phone roaming charges. Some young people also mentioned the arrival of high-street brands such as Spanish company Zara.
In general, however, Barnard and Ludlow found that it was easier for people who voted Leave to provide examples of how they felt the EU had interfered too much than it was for Remain voters to give concrete examples of the EU’s benefit.
I'm not going to say that some people appear to lack intelligence, but they do seem intellectually challenged when it comes to things outside their own little world of mobile phones and 'Do I look good in this '
Did you get your figures from the side of a bus because you've got that wrong. Scotland was one of the highest percentage remain areas outside London with 1.66M votes against 1.02M to leave with not one single region registering a leave result.
https://www.electoralcommission.org...u-referendum/electorate-and-count-information
Zaras clobber is made by 13 year old Iraqi refugees in Turkey, go Spain.
Yeah...For Leave read Remain....Sorry for that....Too much full bodied red, with hints of rasberry, peppermint and chocolate. in the garden this afternoon....
I won't write it all again....Suffice to say the Scots don't need to worry about loss of EU funding....
Leavers found it easier to provide examples of how they felt the EU interfered too much. That's not the same as finding it easier to provide examples of how the EU actually interfered too much. If their examples don't hold water then it hardly says much for their intelligence either, they're just finding it easy to be wrong.
People who fell for Boris Johnson's straight bananas routine are posited as being more intelligent ?
Time to return to the Flat Earth thread
Time to return to the Flat Earth thread
Just because they don't agree with your own views doesn't mean that they're wrong and you're right in everyone's world, even it does in your world.
People who fell for Boris Johnson's straight bananas routine are posited as being more intelligent ?
Time to return to the Flat Earth thread
I don't think they're any less intelligent than those who believed Cameron and Osborne's lies about an immediate economic armageddon, emergency budget and taxe rises, collapse of house prices, etc, etc....
Obviously not but not everything is about opinion. Some things are either factually correct or incorrect and getting that right is far more reflective of intelligence than being able to name things that feel correct or incorrect.
For example, one of the factors mentioned in the piece you posted was "the promise of additional healthcare funding". That isn't actually going to happen is it? In which case the people who found it easy to name that as a major benefit of Brexit are more wrong than the people who could only name minor, petty benefits of staying. Yet the latter are who you criticise for lacking intelligence?
I'm not even talking about the broader debate, just that the message you drew from the piece you posted was weird.