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The idea of a universal health service free to the consumer at the point of use is attractive, so long as, to reference Milton Friedman, you have secure borders. Open borders and free welfare services would be incompatible for the tax payer…………….another ingredient in the cost of living crisis stew.

Stop singing.

Dave, I’m sure if we had a thread about climate change some on here would be in rapture about beef and dairy farmers topping themselves…….especially if they were the type that spoke plainly about gayest, supported Leeds, liked Jimmy Carr, engaged in fox hunting and kicked their cats.* Delete as...

Stop it you nutter…… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/14/global-farm-subsidies-damage-people-planet-un-climate-crisis-nature-inequality You’ll be telling me the earth is flat next?

Too right, with over 52,000 posts on here someone is evidently spending way too much time online, you really need to get out more.

Deary me, calm down Gilesy, earlier you said the CAP has failings so any industry that is so reliant on Government subsidies in the way the Agriculture does in the EU and by extension the U.K. must need major reform. Exiting the CAP is an opportunity to do that, and the first step to that...

Removing subsidies is like reducing welfare, it’s not going to be popular with those who receive it. Remaining in a trade bloc that actively discourages competitive imports (that could benefits its consumers) with excessive tariffs to protect itself from open and functioning markets is doomed...

Oh sure, those “poor old farmers” will definitely go bust without subsidies……… https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2016/09/29/common-agricultural-policy-millions-eu-subsidies-go-richest-landowners/...

Personally, I think if Stalin and Mao were anything they were communists in tooth and claw. Their commitment to communist principles like the collectivisation of farms is what led to catastrophic famines in China and Russia. Blind commitment to a broken political ideology is what killed...

Hmm, it would seem to me that if food security and reducing costs of living were to be taken seriously by the EU then they would be tearing up the Common Agricultural Policy, which sustains food prices at levels that would be subject to down ward pressure if supply was increased whether...

You need to stop singing…….from the EU Commission’s own webpage. “Binding implementing measures to ensure uniform application of the VAT Directive can be found in the VAT Implementing Regulation (Council Regulation (EU) No 282/2011Search for available translations of the preceding linkEN•••)...

Yeah, because the desire to be able to elect representatives to sovereign and accountable power in this country, with the unencumbered ability to set laws and taxes is clearly synonymous with supporters of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Spare me another banzai charge please.

Interesting, we should add “collectivisation under communism” into the mix there too; in Russia and China alone deaths mainly through famine caused by collectivisation initiatives would be on its way towards total deaths in WW2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward...

Sure, when I have rattled in over 13,000 messages like you have on here then I will gladly take lessons from you in Neuroscience.

If the quid pro quo for the billions of euros of infrastructure is the interference of unelected foreign officials into the workings of a democratically elected Polish Govt, including €1m a day fines etc. then that’s a question only the poles can answer isn’t it...

Couldn’t agree more, we have left and the war should be over. It’s not though, like this thread proves, we have fanatical Japanese style Herberts holed up in the long grass resplendent in their piss stained fatigues still pining to be part of the wider lebensraum. I think the last one was...

Interesting website, an earlier article seems to frame the poison. https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/12/16/polish-pm-urges-eu-to-allow-vat-cuts-on-fuel-and-food-to-soften-blow-of-inflation/ Poland had to request from the EU Commission, (not the Parliament I note) permission to reduce some of...

You said reduced, not removed. We can’t remove VAT in the EU. FACT. So I understand, great news for Pension and Investment funds isn’t it?

Sounds like you lack ambition. I think VAT on energy should be removed completely, you want it reduced. What I want can’t be achieved in the EU.

Seek and ye shall find……no doubt more to your taste. https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2008/10/the_corfu_story.html A Senior Tory MP, a Senior Labour MP, an ex EU Trade Commissioner, a Russian Oligarch, Rupert Murdoch and a member of the Rothschilds………all on a yacht together, what could...