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well iam sure our friends over the pond would help out, they love to try and conquer other lands! LOL

as for could we well definatly get france, they would surrender after one shot being fired, or all be on strike anyway.

the rest might be tricky. but i am sue tactical nukes could help us out a bit!! LOL

it was meant to be a throw away comment and a joke!

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I thought it was funny!

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hence why i wrote pmsl in my earlier post :D

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that is what the ?? was for what does PMSL mean?

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oh i see

****ed myself laughing

i thought you were questioning why i would be laughing!

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i thought it was a good plan.

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now i understand, it all seems clear.

no i thought you were thinking iwas serious. (well only the bit about invading france LOL )

oh and the english stil have an empire, its called Wales and Scotland!!! LOL

Runs and hides now, awaiting the incoming flack!!

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We the great British mugs were sold down the river with the vision of a common market with free movement of goods, labour etc. No body has ever voted in the UK for a united states of Europe. Somewhere the common market evolved into the monolith that is the EEC. For god sake it has failed for so many years to get its own auditors to sign off its own accounts. Why then permit it to have overall control of a countries fiscal policy by having a centralised bank and currency.

If we delegate our financial control of the country to a group that have spent near on 1000 years trying to destroy the UK, we might as well hand over our defence, foreign policy, judiciary, etc. Because we are no longer a country, but a puppet state.

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PMSL - p1ss1ing My Self Laughing

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Indeed. No one who signed up to the EU, from any country (in the early days, at least, nowadays it's fairly apparent what it is) knew what it would become. It was never supposed to be more than a trade alliance. If you read up on the history of it, I believe it was the Dutch who first discovered what they'd entered into when one of their own citizens, who was actually doing a bit of tax avoidance and wanted to get out of paying some money he owed his government, went to the EU to ask them to overturn a decision in his country's court. What is truly staggering is that they didn't tell them there and then to "**** off". Perhaps if they had, the whole unpleasent business that is the EU could of been avoided.

On the subject of whether we'd be better off or worse if we adopted the Euro, yes, we "as a country" might be better off in some immeasurable ethereal term that economists and accountants comprehend, but to most of us, the British public, we would find a similar situation to what most people in other countries that adopted the euro experienced. That is, the cost of living would go through the roof overnight and surprise surprise, our salaries wouldn't increase to match it.