The issue of the Irish border was raised in the press a few days ago. I'd never considered this. The comment was that as part of the Good Friday Agreement it's a "soft border". If Ireland was in the EU but UK isn't it would need to be a sealed hard border which might cause a few issues.
That's my attempt at humour. Some people like it. Quite different to your carry on tonight. You're not on very good form tonight are you? Hung-over? Wrong-side of bed again?
Stop playing this silly school playground charade. I said I wasn't prepared to answer a specific question you keep turning threads around to and a question I have debated twice before. This is all, and you and every other person following this thread knows this.
You repeatedly bring this Greek issue up with me. And as I told you two weeks ago when you raised it yet again I have already discussed this twice before. The first time was in some detail. I do not feel the need to, or want to, go over old ground. My view hasn't changed. If it does I'll let you...
I don't know the exact structure of their payments across the year and how much they have already banked in 2014 but if someone said to me I could pay 8 pounds and get a tenner in return I would not class that as unfair or cruel. Quite the opposite in fact.
I have answered this already in the posts I have specified. And Mellor 3 Ward 4 mentions his, albeit anecdotal, experiences in post 144. I feel Golden Dawn are, and will remain, a noisy side story. Just like UKIP in the UK. My view is that the majority of voters favour membership of the EU. Both...
Switzerland free trade is based on them having signed up separately to the 4 "guillotine EU clauses" of free movement though. It would be pointless for the UK to leave and then re-sign up to the issues at the very core of the UK's EU schism. This situation could change as the Swiss recently...
We are actually a net contributor, unlike say Greece or Spain. So at face value we give more than we take. But, there are various estimates which make a strong case to suggest our overall finances are better for being in the EU.