Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

I imagine you are referring to the byelection that labour won by only 683 votes Which was actually a 12.5% increase in their majority compared to the 2017 election. So the reality isn't that Labour "only just held on", but rather that a brexit candidate failed miserably to beat Labour, th...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

It is so fun to read you guys when your Brexit representative just lost the election :) Quite the contrary. The Labour candidate was also pro-Brexit and the last thing we want right now is for the Blairites in the Labour Party to use a by-election loss as an excuse to oust Jeremy Corbyn and install...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

You are clearly not fully understanding FoM and mixing it up with passport free travel: 1/ FoM is a citizen right of EU citizens only which allows them to move to and settle in any EU country. 2/ Passport free travel is something which comes with the Schengen Area and basically means all people wit...

Re: KLM's first 787-10 Dreamliner (PH-BKA) is out

The 100 Years Logo is very similar to that of British Airways and strikes me as quite unimaginative - especially when compared to KLM's own PH-BVA, which sports the fantastic orange/blue color scheme. Will we perhaps see some retrojets in the next few months? I expected more for such an important an...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

You are going to lecture France and tell them what to do? Interesting philosophy since you are a Brexiteer on record denouncing any foreign influence. I am pretty sure it is what most rational people in France would want and it stops them risking their lives getting dinghies and climbing under lorr...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

Starting today, US 'President' Trump is visiting the UK and Ireland and has already started to insult the country and some of its politicians. He has blasted London Mayor Kahn mainly over being a Muslim which to Trump = hates Israel and supporting Shara law in the UK. He has also made comments on B...

Re: EU elections

The fact you are still with that outdated concept: each state is entitled to two senators, whatever the number of inhabitant is totally flawed. It just means that votes in the less developed and conserative states have more value than the others. A voter in Wyoming count for around 300 californians...

Re: Born on an international flight

Admittedly I don't have a legit answer to this question, but if the registration of the craft does matter, I assume it only matters wherein the country where the craft is registered follows jus soli and grants citizenship based solely on being born there. Most countries do not grant citizenship for...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

Meanwhile... BoJo ordered to appear in court over claims he lied by saying the UK gave the EU £350m every week. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48445430 The Tory leadership candidate has been accused of misconduct in public office after making the claim during the 2016 EU referendum campaign...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

It's time that we took this off the table and either call a second referendum with the options being remain or leave on May's WA terms or, better still, revoke Article 50. But, but... more voting is a "betrayal of democracy". :sarcastic: It is when the "more voting" is explicitl...

Re: EU elections

You probably don’t know as much as a British Citizen living in the UK. Labour at the last election promised to deliver Brexit. Labour heartlands overwhelmingly voted to leave the EU. The Labour leader immensely dislikes the EU. He can read as well as you. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb...

Re: EU elections

The exit polls from Germany are horrendous. Not in terms of who has profited this election, but in terms of how fractured the political landscape has become. If this trend holds, building any kind of workable or stable coalition after the next Federal Election will be difficult. https://wahl.tagessc...

Re: Bloomberg: Wow Air Collapse is Crashing the Icelandic Economy

God, I can’t believe I have to tell you this yet again. I’ve given you literally dozens of links from reputable media companies to back up what I’m saying, but you just. Won’t. Listen. Icelandair didn’t want to get involved with WOW, neither last March nor November 2018. It was WOW that came beggin...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

The Conservative party is beyond saving. Way beyond saving. They're the clown car at the political circus. They will get slaughtered at the next GE regardless of what the final Brexit outcome is. If it was a dog, you'd take it to the vet to put it out of its misery. While I largely agree with your ...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

True, or they will shift their ground and will grand another referendum or will stop the article 50 process altogether. You seem to forget those two options. The WA is important for the EU, because of the principles involved which are the foundation of the EU. The withdraw agreement is kind of set ...

Re: EU elections

EXIT POLLS in the Netherlands: https://nos.nl/data/image/2019/05/23/552091/2048x1152.jpg Forum voor Democratie (populist party in the Netherlands) isn't the largest party. PvdA, the socialist party, has won. GroenLinks (Green party) has won a bit, as has the VVD (Liberals). So this is the massive e...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

May is gone as of June 7th. Will be interesting who will be the next PM https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48395905 The EU should have listened to Macron when he sought to get the UK out as quickly as possible. I have made my pro-Brexit stance clear, but I also strive to see the situation from a ...

Re: EU elections

The results will not be announced until Sunday, but apparently, exit-polls are allowed. Some further research suggests this is a peculiar law unique to the United Kingdom: https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/23/britain-and-netherlands-kick-off-eu-elections-votes Makes little sense if the only other co...

Re: EU elections

EXIT POLLS in the Netherlands: https://nos.nl/data/image/2019/05/23/552091/2048x1152.jpg Forum voor Democratie (populist party in the Netherlands) isn't the largest party. PvdA, the socialist party, has won. GroenLinks (Green party) has won a bit, as has the VVD (Liberals). Serious question, how is...

Re: EU elections

noviorbis77 wrote:

On my way to vote for the Brexit Party. Only second time I’ve ever not voted Conservative (I voted UKIP in last Euro Elections).

Re: EU elections

Actually, he isn't, he is far more extreme in his views than Wilders is or ever was. He was in a debate yesterday with prime minister Rutte. He actually knows nothing, quite shocking and he totally believes in the Russian narrative. It is known that extreme right parties are very close with Putin, ...

Re: EU elections

Dutchy wrote:

Yes, the Dutch are voting too, today. I still have to cast my vote. Haven't decided whom to vote for though.

Re: EU elections

In terms of those who have not received their forms, agreed. But the fact local staff don't seem to understand who is allowed to vote where, or if it's being done on purpose is unacceptable. Combined, It's an utter farce and IMO makes the results unsafe. I doubt it is being done on purpose. Presidi...

Re: EU elections

So it's MEP Election day in the UK today. There are a lot of reports on social media of mainland EU citizens who reside in the UK being turned away at polling stations.Some have stated that they made prior contact with local authorities who confirmed they were of course elligable to vote, only when...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

Labour likely to vote against WAB too: https://twitter.com/rosskempsell/status/1130878505443577857 Meanwhile, Buzzfeed is maintaining a rolling list of Tory Rebels: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/tory-mps-vote-against-withdrawal-bill Can't see how the bill even gets to Parliament, let alone re...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

Meanwhile, TM is about to hold a speech on her reviewed 4TH (!) attempt to get the WA accepted by Parliament. Her latest attempt will allegedly include a temporary Customs Union with the EU till the next general election, as well as revive the odd government proposal for the UK to be allowed to col...

Re: Liberal/National Coalition wins Australian Federal Election

I didn’t like any of the candidates for PM - but it was great to see Abbott gone. The LNP still has a few faceless men left in its ranks, but at least the leader of the backstabbing has been tossed out. They’ll be a more united party from now on. Either side wouldn’t have made a great difference ho...

Re: Liberal/National Coalition wins Australian Federal Election

I didn’t like any of the candidates for PM - but it was great to see Abbott gone. The LNP still has a few faceless men left in its ranks, but at least the leader of the backstabbing has been tossed out. They’ll be a more united party from now on. Either side wouldn’t have made a great difference ho...

Liberal/National Coalition wins Australian Federal Election

The governing, right-leaning Liberal/National coalition has won a surprise victory in Australia's Federal Election, held Saturday. Most polls had predicted a Labor Party victory, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison more or less fought the Liberal campaign himself. This is certainly his victory, and on...

Re: Brussels Airlines narrowbody fleet to be rebranded as Eurowings

So what‘s next? Rebrand SWISS into Eurowings Swiss? And what about Austrian Airlines narrowbody Fleet? Or even Air Dolomiti, merged with Lufthansa CityLine? And at least buy Thomas Cook and merged with SunExpress to Eurowings Holiday Airlines??? What can we expected? On the first airline; unlikely....

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau