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Post by Stephen on Sept 5, 2018 12:14:14 GMT
I have just booked a ticket to attend the Irext Freedom conference in Drumcondra on Saturday. This news will be greeted by wild cheering among those who support Irish membership of the E.U., as I seem to be the kiss of death to every single cause I take up. Anyone else going? I would love to.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 8, 2018 18:27:52 GMT
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Post by cato on Sept 9, 2018 20:09:23 GMT
The conference got a hostile article courtesy of the Sunday Times on page 24 today. I ll add a few quotes later.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 9, 2018 20:14:27 GMT
Well, the media got a fair few hostile reviews at the conference...it's hardly surprising the Empire struck back...
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 18, 2018 9:05:01 GMT
Although I'm very much in favour of Irexit, I think its spokespeople need to become a lot clearer on the economic arguments. They weren't prominent at the Irexit conference, despite frequent mentions of the bailout and the money we are paying the EU. In this interview, for instance, Hermann Kelly really seems all at sea when it comes to a debate with a caller from about 18:20 onwards, on the subject of tariffs. Now, it could be the caller is a complete bluffer, but the point is, he SOUNDS like he knows what he's talking about and Hermann doesn't. Nigel Farage was never bested in such arguments-- we don't have our own Nigel Farage yet, it seems. Perhaps Hermann Kelly will become one, but I'm not yet convinced. I actually don't believe it's an economic argument for most partisans on either side-- they tend to be either globalists, or nationalists-- but I think it makes a huge difference to the general public, understandably.
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Post by Séamus on Nov 24, 2021 12:29:15 GMT
Although it may have little to do with the bloc, Royal Dutch Shell's decision to no longer BE royal,no longer BE Dutch and ultimately to shell out it's taxes in the one nation to have exited the Union seems far from a 'good look'.
I came across a review this week for a novel that I probably won't come across or actually buy,but the nuclear-power futuristic storyline as reviewed does strike one for who it doesn't include- ".... a conflict breaks out between US-backed Chad and Chinese-supported Sudan in central Africa,a region that has been arming Islamic extremists with Chinese-made weapons from North Korea. This puts the two global superpowers at loggerheads..." (America at this stage having a Presidentess of course) "... Chinese threats to a Vietnamese oil exploration vessel exploration with American geologists on board ratchets up the tension...etc...etc" (cf c heathcote, review of never by k follett)
One writer's imagination is just one writer's imagination and nothing more of course and may be well off the mark;but it's of note that, by the perception of at least one author, the European Union in the near-future world would seem to have no major participation (perhaps we could be optimistic and suggest that the continent lived in blissful silence, but the only reference to anything remotely European was the reviewer's reference to The Godfather novels). Despite many Middle Eastern people's desperation to live in the bloc and the many statements issued from it's Parliament about everything from skirmishes in Eastern Europe to the rights of Muslims in China,is it possible that people should start asking themselves whether the Union has in fact sustained the world stage dynamo that many expected?
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Post by Séamus on Feb 6, 2023 3:11:07 GMT
Something doesn't sit quite right about EU holding public discussion in English, as with the recent excerpts broadcasted from a meeting regarding Ukraine's possible nomination, especially without an England involved. Were the organisation to popularize German a bit more,as well as this being truer to itself, the US might find lessens on thoughtful restraint also- "It's all over and I'm standing pretty,. In this dust that was a city..." (Neunundneunzig Luftballons,which despite being written during the Cold War implied an impossibility of a world war sparking from a stray balloon)
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Post by eala on Apr 30, 2023 20:38:12 GMT
Culture, language and such is the decisive set of arguments for me also, If we leave the EU for ostensible freedom, might we not get hoovered up in to another, more homogenised and homogenising bloc, a move closer to Anglo-American blandness?
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Post by cato on May 1, 2023 19:29:15 GMT
Something doesn't sit quite right about EU holding public discussion in English, as with the recent excerpts broadcasted from a meeting regarding Ukraine's possible nomination, especially without an England involved. Were the organisation to popularize German a bit more,as well as this being truer to itself, the US might find lessens on thoughtful restraint also- "It's all over and I'm standing pretty,. In this dust that was a city..." (Neunundneunzig Luftballons,which despite being written during the Cold War implied an impossibility of a world war sparking from a stray balloon) Latin. We need to restore Latin as our common language.
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Post by eala on May 2, 2023 10:58:40 GMT
Something doesn't sit quite right about EU holding public discussion in English, as with the recent excerpts broadcasted from a meeting regarding Ukraine's possible nomination, especially without an England involved. Were the organisation to popularize German a bit more,as well as this being truer to itself, the US might find lessens on thoughtful restraint also- "It's all over and I'm standing pretty,. In this dust that was a city..." (Neunundneunzig Luftballons,which despite being written during the Cold War implied an impossibility of a world war sparking from a stray balloon) Latin. We need to restore Latin as our common language. “Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”
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Post by cato on May 2, 2023 13:40:35 GMT
Latin. We need to restore Latin as our common language. “Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” Quod scripsi, scripsi.
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Post by eala on May 5, 2023 16:33:10 GMT
“Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” Quod scripsi, scripsi. Scripta Latina, Gaolainn labhartha, placet mihi hoc
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Post by Séamus on Sept 17, 2023 8:13:20 GMT
"(Paddington) Bear's favourite filling could soon be renamed,thanks to European Union bureaucrats. The European Commission is revising it's 'breakfast directives' and proposing that, for the first time,jam should be labelled as marmalade. Meanwhile, marmalade should be renamed 'citrus marmalade'. " Sunday Times SEP 17
For someone like me who likes citrus marmalade and dislikes the spread-previously-known-as-jam it would be problematic- I was nearly fooled by an apricot mixture recently. Will Asisn hotels still be able to label coffee,toast and jam-cum-marmalade as continental breakfast?
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