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2014-10-20 Europe

EU exit would leave Britain with zero influence, says Barroso

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Posted by Fred 2014-10-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 No, actually, he's got it backwards.
It would leave the EU with zero influence. The Brits have all the money, and all of Barroso's fulminating will not stop Germany and France from selling things to England. The productivity of your workers only matters when someone wants to buy what you're selling. (Ask Italy.)

Posted by ed in texas 2014-10-20 07:48|| 2014-10-20 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Barroso is showing how desperate and fearful the EU is in the possibility of the UK leaving and the EU eventually collapsing.

Would you want some unelected bunch in the EU negotiating on your behalf with the US and China? How did the heavy handed attempt at imposing a carbon tax on Chinese and other commercial aircraft flying to the EU work out? Well, EU Commissioner Connie Hedegaar, how did it go?

Dinosaurs once roamed the earth, but they became obsolete and extinct. Like the EU will become.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-10-20 11:14|| 2014-10-20 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 I blame the USA. If it wasn't for your misplaced sentimentality, Europeans would live in the real World.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-10-20 14:23|| 2014-10-20 14:23|| Front Page Top

#4 I blame the USA. If it wasn't for your misplaced sentimentality, Europeans would live in the real World.

Yeah, we do kinda like 'em in spite of it all. You know, when your ancestors are from Britain it's only natural to have a certain interest in Britain. Sometimes I even have a certain amount of sympathy for the rest of them. As flawed as it may be and as much as we disagree with them, there are those of us who appreciate Western Civilization.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-10-20 18:50|| 2014-10-20 18:50|| Front Page Top

#5 But don't construe any of that as an endorsement of the European Union.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-10-20 18:52|| 2014-10-20 18:52|| Front Page Top

He didn't say it but if he thought the proles would beleive him the shitty Maoist would.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-10-20 21:58|| 2014-10-20 21:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Iff VPOTUS Biden can describe CHINA as a "NORTH AMERICAN" COUNTRY, he can do the same to the UK including Ireland.

Wid the ISIS/ISIL still at the OWG North-SOuth "Mason-Dixon" line aka the Equator.

Personally I'm still waiting for the US Marines + Army Airborne, etc. to politely courteously attack + take over Greenland + Iceland.

AM I WRONG WID THE ONGOING NEW ISIS CALIPHATE THREAT TO TURKEY + IRAN, + ULTIMATELY RUSSIA, CHINA, + INDIA - SORRY, BUT ME DON'T THINK SO!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-20 23:14|| 2014-10-20 23:14|| Front Page Top

#8 * GROONG > [Ria Novosti] WORLDS IS MOVING ABCK TO PERIOD OF GREAT POWER [National + Regional] COMPETITION.

Mahanism + Mackindrianism.

Which, ironically, shows once again why the OWG GLOBALIST TENET THAT THE SOLE SUPERPOWER USA, ETAL. GREAT POWERS MUST UNILATERALLY GIVE UP THEIR POWER-N-INFLUENCE TO NEW GEOPOL WANNABES + FALL BACK ACROSS THE WORLD IS A DANGEROUS ONE.

Moreso because the OWG Globies have still failed to answer "HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH"? andor "HOW FAR IS TOO FAR"? ETC. FOR THE US + OTHER TO GEOPOL RETREAT OR PULL BACK SAFELY WIDOUT BEING THREATENED OR DESTROYED BY NEWBIES, be it Globalist-desired fellow Co-Superpwer(s) or third-party originals e.g. "All the World will be an Islamic/Sharia State" Islamic State = ISIS/ISIL.

But I digress ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-20 23:23|| 2014-10-20 23:23|| Front Page Top

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