Blocking Tactics: UK Infuriating Partners by Obstructing EU Foreign Policy: What the hell is going on with these (*)(*)(*)(*)heads that call themselves "politicians" over there in Great Britain?! As has been highlighted in my rather straight-forward thread: It's about time they get their act together, or "neutralized" accordingly.
Yeah, shocking. Not wanting to automatically buy into the foreign policy view of Belgium... It's insane. Why doesn't Belgium just implement its own foreign policy? Oh, yeah, that's right because no one would listen. Yes, do forgive the Brits for wanting to control their own foreign plicy, for having their own minds and wanting to keep their own self-determination. It's a shocking mentality.
Yes , it is infuriating for the failed Zoners to see the team that wins all the wars now giving them a good Logic and Sanity kicking . It's infuriating for them to keep bumping into a more successful group but the zoners need to get their heads down and come up with solutions that are of benefit to all of those who pour money into the EU coffers . As for tensions --- the Germans and French must learn to relax . You can't take on the British and hope to do well unless you are in full control of yourselves . As for Belgium -- we can see you hiding behind the sofa in your brown trousers .OK , grey and brown .
I live in Britain. What planet are you from? Logic or sanity from Cameron and his bunch of toffs would be a novelty.
British politicians are not anti-EU but they know that the majority of the electorate (of those who bother to vote) is. Therefore our politicians are desperate to avoid agreeing to anything which might be seen as another transfer of sovereign powers, lest people expect the Tories to make good on their own manifesto commitment on holding a referendum before any further powers are transferred to the EU. Hope this clears your confusion. As for your rather straight forward thread, as I've said before I really hope the EU does kick us out; the sooner the better.
... Leffe, your post doesn't make that much sense to me. I don't see what Belgium has to do with this whatsoever. The only accent that Belgium lays in her foreign policy is towards Central Africa (DR of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda,...). If the UK wants to have her own foreign policy, fine -- but that doesn't mean it should stand in the way of the 26 other memberstates to have a common foreign policy.
No no no. I think you've got it the wrong way around here. When was it announced by the EU that the end point that we apparantly signed up for meant an EU foreign policy? In fact what is the stated end point of the EU? Because, if this is going to work, perhaps the EU would stand the best chance of success if they told everyone what the end point of the plan is. That's right, the EU has never stated this. In fact, not only has it not done so, but the year before the EU Constitution failed to pass, EU leaders met to try to agree on a common text of what it meant, in lay mans words. But wow, they couldn't agree. So the underhandedness continued, 450M people sleepwalk into further integration. I'll be less sceptical, the EU just needs to formally answer my question. In reality, I shouldn't have to ask, they should be embrassing openess. There are EU politicians who are talking about adopting a US system, my god I couldn't think of anything worse! The corruption and greed would be shocking - lets not think that our politicians are somehow better than theirs.
This is madness. The idea that France and Germany should have the same foreign policy is beyond flawed. Britain should never stand for such an absurd idea.
