Bang On Mr President......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49462613
Has the EUSSR ever been anything but an Anchor/Millstone?

[vetuste_ennemi]

//The UK economy generally did a lot better inside the EU/EEC than it had previously, when outside it//

And the UK's main motive for joining the "Common Market" as it was then. And Ted Heath's willingness to sacrifice the livelihoods of Caribbean and Antipodean farmers in order to share the Eueropean economic resurgency. (Not to mention the Brennus sword chucked on the scale at the last minute of "negotiation" which destroyed the livelihoods of British fishermen.)



Relevance of that historic fact to anything now?

[vetuste_ennemi]

I assume a view about protectionism is just that. Jim's MSc in physics gives him greater competency to comment on the structure of the atom and the big bang than the fifteen-year old VE's GCE in General Science.


But not necessarily on economics.

(PS: VE disagrees with Trump on tariffs. But what do I know, innit?)

[tonyav]

g than the fifteen-year old VE's GCE in General Science.

Gawd blimey a proper clever clogs, CSE for me.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Gawd blimey a proper clever clogs, CSE for me//

Suffer, baby, suffer.

[tonyav]

I have done :-)

[Peter Pedant]

// Relevance of that historic fact to anything now?//

erm it has direct relevance to the observation - subject for debate,
has the EUSSR ever been anything but a millstone.....

there'me wasting my time reading the q and all the answers
er
and I think Jim is reading for a Ph D in theorietical phys
but there's me again ....

[Peter Pedant]

I am too ( sufferin ) - reading the inconsequential blah-blah on this thread !

[1ozzy]

//Bang On Mr President......//

Don't encourage him.

#metoo will erupt.

[Old_Geezer]

"Chlorinated chickens aren't really a problem jno - we always used to rinse them in bleach ourselves until the EU stopped it."

Doesn't mean it isn't a problem. It's a clear confession that the farmers aren't ensuring decent conditions for their livestock to live in; plus the incidents of food poisoning from chicken in the US is known to be higher due to this reliance on a chlorine wash to compensate for the bad husbandry practices. We've moved on from those times, the rest of the world should too and adopt best practice wherever it originated.

[Peter Pedant]

jeez Geez - give em hell