tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32652391.post6419565721638351643..comments2024-02-16T08:06:02.281+00:00Comments on maytrees' musings: A Royal Affairmaytreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16718016285993243848noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32652391.post-47604928891913208322012-06-21T10:48:46.094+01:002012-06-21T10:48:46.094+01:00I don't know how you managed to wade through m...I don't know how you managed to wade through my incoherent and ungrammatical comment, Jerry!<br />Re the Falklands, I can't remember what the official line here in France was. Bemusement and bafflement, I should think. However, I do remember very clearly that the ordinary French people were full of admiration for the British and many of them came up to me and said they just wished their own government had the same courage and determination to stand up for their own interests.The Subliminal Mr Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026560115807068974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32652391.post-43485737825339476472012-06-20T17:11:05.801+01:002012-06-20T17:11:05.801+01:00Greetings Baranaby and thank you for your post.
Yo...Greetings Baranaby and thank you for your post.<br />You raise some interesting points. <br /><br />I think that many of the countries in Europe who were conquered by the Germans or Russians during WWII<br />benefit each other now and the Germans by being in the same Common Market and probably the same EU.<br /><br />The UK was obviously heavily involved in WWII but in different ways to our European friends. Also we do not have the same systems of agriculture as many of our European friends. Yet Europe concentrates so much on agriculture and at the same time decimates what used to be British fisheries.<br />I would be inclined to negotiate withdrawal from the Common Market and rejoin EFTA or equivalent and/or strengthen the Commonwealth.<br /><br />We would of course stay in NATO and retain our friendship with the USA, which when the chips were down, supported the UK during the last Falklands conflict. <br /><br />I don't recall what our European friends' positions were then.maytreeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16718016285993243848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32652391.post-6727840911370059362012-06-19T19:12:40.287+01:002012-06-19T19:12:40.287+01:00Hi Jerry
Many thanks for your kind comments re the...Hi Jerry<br />Many thanks for your kind comments re the euro and Europe. I've got to the stage now that I no longer know WHAT to think! It does look now that Britain was wise not to get involved with the euro.<br />The only thing I would say is that we are living in a far harsher and more unforgiving world now than we did thirty years ago and I just wonder what would lie in store for us all if the whole European idea started to unravel. I am the first to recognise that there is no enthusiasm whatsoever for Europe among the various populations and that we have only come as far as we have because of the generous provision of structural and regional funds and/or according to the country CAP subsidies, plus the immense power of inertia. My one hope is, and it's a rather bleak one, that things really do come to a head and that we all of have to decide, politicians and people alike, have to decide what we really want. I'm bound to say my brother has being saying that for a long time!The Subliminal Mr Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026560115807068974noreply@blogger.com