EU Fun and Games

[G-CPTN]

Source?

Torygraph.

[barkingmad]

And the last message from the EUSS Titanic was that she was steaming onwards at max speed towards greater unity and control over the member states as the EU Army was being designed. Or did the Morse code get corrupted on that message?
Meanwhile, the comms with the engine room and the lookouts tell a different story;

https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/11/ana ... onal-court

Of course here in the UK there’s precious little on the MSM news except the not very funny “Hancock’s Half-Hour” on Covid-19, which usually has me reaching for the mute/off button.

But in the midst of revolting Spaniards, Italians thinking of Italexit and those nasty Brits not rolling on their backs and submitting to the endearments of Michel Barnier, the Germans, of all nations, are falling out big time with UVDL and Mutti Merkel, both of whom are, erm, Germans!

But the Oirish are understandably concerned with what’s happening as they are already having to step up to the plate and become net contributors to this multi-national Ponzi scheme which is already falling apart;

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/germ ... -1.4254549

One would hope that reason would prevail with the Brussels Brigade and that they would stop allowing themselves to be distracted by Brexit by endlessly arguing over fisheries’ policy and trying to tie the UK into some everlasting subservience to their diktats. This might release some intellectual energy and capacity to solve the dangerous structural problems with the weakening union of the remaining 27, but that does not seem to be a priority with the EUrocrats.
Whilst all this is happening we in the UK have a bunch of treacherous MPs who are writing direct to Brussels to campaign for a 2-year delay to Brexit and we all know what that will entail. Where’s that guillotine when you need one fast?!

[Boac]

All good clean fun! Even more entertaining than 'Hancock's Half hour'

and become net contributors to this multi-national Ponzi scheme

Shock-Horror - you don't mean Ireland is going to have to pay into the EU, shirley!

[barkingmad]

I believe I’d previously highlighted somewhere in O-N that the Oirish were going to have to shell out €2,000,000,000 per annum for the ‘privilege’ of staying in the 27.
And that was before Brexit was looking more like a no-deal WTO departure and before Covid-19 and before the latest squillions of euros being promised by Brussels to help the ‘union’ in the post Covid recovery.
Watch this space or Chaos Oireland for further breathlessly exciting reports...

[barkingmad]

Meanwhile in a La-La land, far away from Covid-19 and Dominic Cummings, a small problem is arising with our nearest neighbours which might put 250-mile drives into perspective?
Anyone fancy buying an old battered Ford Consol, still a runner but nearing the scrapyard?



This is posted despite the risk of triggering apoplexy in some of our number...

[Boac]

Not too sure how high I rate Mr Soros! I think few 'apoplexies', BM, since this will not affect the UK. Whether any of our 'European' posters will suffer.............

[barkingmad]

I gather Mr Soros is not much liked but there is a possibility that now he has uttered, all the hedge-funders and bankers will panic and do something irrational?
Once the lines on the screens start to fall towards the lower right-hand corner, them mass panic plus the computer algorithms will do the rest.
The remoaners have always assured us that a damaged EU will be bad for naughtyboy Britain so I now will start losing sleep over what I might have to face in the morning.
Even worse, I have a piggybank full of lotsa €s and was ‘banking’ on parity with the valueless £, at which point I would exchange, but that pleasure may be denied!

[OFSO]

The Merkel and Macron plan to grant (i.e. give) €500,000,000,000 of EU money (from somewhere) to the poorer EU countries to help their Covid-blighted economies was shot down yesterday by the Frugal Four - Austria, Denmark, Holland and Sweden - who blocked it and said if any dosh was handed out, it had to be in the form of a fixed-term loan. Cue shock, horror, and dismay from Italy and the other usual suspects who would have been beneficiaries of the Brussels no-strings-attached handout, and all of whom already have massive national debts.
Source, today's "Sunday Times".

[barkingmad]

If Mutti Merkel, Macron, UVDL and their lackeys turn up at my door asking for a ‘sub’ from my € stash, what do the panel advise my reply should be?
Printable pre-watershed answers only, please!

[Boac]

I assume you would simply direct them to your work area and show them the progress on your project?

[bob2s]

I would say the old English idiom of --Fook orf -- would possibly suffice.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Bob's why do you care mate?

[TheGreenGoblin]

Meanwhile in a La-La land, far away from Covid-19 and Dominic Cummings, a small problem is arising with our nearest neighbours which might put 250-mile drives into perspective?

This is posted despite the risk of triggering apoplexy in some of our number...

The taxi driver....

You Kleine Englanders...

[OFSO]

In order to save Lufthansa from bankruptcy, the German government is taking a twenty percent share of the airline. It is illegal under EU regulations to subsidise the airline, so they are injecting 5.7 billion euros into Lufthansa by 'Silent Paticipation'. What's in a name, eh ?

[bob2s]

Sorry Gob ,I must of missed the rule that I had to care to participate in a thread!

[Boac]

barkingmad wrote: ↑
Sun May 24, 2020 2:31 pm
Meanwhile in a La-La land, far away from Covid-19 and Dominic Cummings, a small problem is arising with our nearest neighbours which might put 250-mile drives into perspective?

This is posted despite the risk of triggering apoplexy in some of our number...

The taxi driver....

I do really appreciate the efforts you and PN make to keep our failing minds active during lockdown by making all these cryptic posts - great fun to try and crack - I eventually found BM's "Buy a Lester Mug' post buried deep in another thread - keep 'em coming!

[OFSO]

And now France proposes a subsidy, sorry a 'grant', of eight billion euros, to the French car manufacturers to keep them from bankruptcy.

[barkingmad]

In order to save Lufthansa from bankruptcy, the German government is taking a twenty percent share of the airline. It is illegal under EU regulations to subsidise the airline, so they are injecting 5.7 billion euros into Lufthansa by 'Silent Paticipation'. What's in a name, eh ?

Here’s even more on this story and isn’t it strange that the Frogs & Krauts are very keen on illegally subsidising their own industries but heaven help any other country who tries the same trick?

https://www.politico.eu/article/merkel- ... ommission/

P S. Why is it I always get an awful sense of depression when I contemplate the visage of the lovely Mutti Merkel?
Does she always look so miserable because she realised some time ago that the great EUSSR project is just a decaying crock of sh1te and is looking forwards to retiring to her East German dacha?

Looking elsewhere in the wonderful alliance of peace-loving former nations of Europe, it appears that our waffle and frites chomping friends are getting restive with the way the world is turning.
I hope that any political unrest in that fractured artificial country will not jeopardise supplies of the Leffe and other excellent beers for which they are justifiably famous;

https://www.politico.eu/article/coronav ... nder-fire/

[barkingmad]

Meanwhile in a La-La land, far away etc etc;



And as if you hadn’t had enough of the well-informed blackcab driver, here’s some more about that strange island moored off the Kent coast;



And no, I don’t have one of his mugs, yet... And I appreciate that the breathless exhilaration on viewing the latest “Get Rid of Cummings” poll far exceeds the minute satisfaction the Brexiteers will experience at watching these vids.
But, heyho, there’s a big world out there which is going to affect us long after Cummingsgate is consigned to 6” squares hanging from the nail in the ‘netty’!

[Boac]

Are you an investor in https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/jeff-taylor? I see a wide range of 'desirable' Lester products on sale, including a rather lovely and comforting pillow (only £23.98...) with his distinctive face on it to lull you to sleep Whether it has a sound chip which says 'Hello There!' and 'Buy my mug' at annoying intervals is not clear from the website.

How is your MP responding? Has he signed the petition? https://www.change.org/p/dominic-cummin ... -be-sacked Nearly 1 mill 100 thousand now. Never mind, though, we can all trust Boris, can't we?