That picture last year would have sent the right wing media onto apoplexy. Maybe you too?Sorry to reply to an old post.
This is a good image of how truly isolated the UK has become militarily thanks to Brexit.
(translation - it makes not a single jot of difference).
Thanks for the insightful contribution.
Please bear in mind that was yesterday. Some of those things might not apply today.
So-basically, you're a coward and not prepared to fight to safeguard Europe. I assume you never had any relations that actually did just that!? But at least you got a new passport!
As it happens my surnames on the local war memorial several times, so my families wasted enough on Europes wars thanks.
Then you should know more than most.
So true!!
What a weird thing to say.
In WW2 certainly, the First World War I’m not so sure we didn’t throw away a million of our best people and the nations wealth for what exactly to make the USA rich?. I know this is a right little echo chamber for the same few where any other opinion isn’t tolerated but do any of you stop to wonder why it was so many left of centre deindustrialised areas of the country voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU. I’m not sure it was because they wanted a new passport.
No, it was a glib reply. But it is the main thing that the average man in the street has to show for it. Those areas voted to leave because they believed the cheeky chappies Farage and Johnson promising Gold at the end of the rainbow. But let's not forget the biggest group that voted for it were the over 65s, not the average working person.
To be honest mate i don’t believe it to be true that the vast majority who voted to leave believed Farage and Johnson, working people who used to work in skilled manufacturing work saw absolutely no benefit whatsoever from our time in the EU, people usually vote for the status quo so it should have been a doddle for the remain campaign but it wasn’t why do you think that was ?. Majority votes in Labour strongholds to leave weren’t by the over 65s the constituency I live was packed with manufacturing work now next to nothing voted 62% to 38% to leave not returned a Tory MP for over a century. People were genuinely pissed off with the status quo and for better or worse voted accordingly.
Odds are you wouldn't be here posting this in English if your families hadn't "wasted" their time in the war.
Well my Grandad considered he’d wasted 3 years stood in mud which left his feet knackered for the rest of his life and his brother who’s lungs were shot for the rest of his life don’t know what his other brother thought about it as he’s buried somewhere on the shores of Turkey.
You think Mark Rutte will last long as head of NATO when Trump goes full Putin? He'd be first candidate for head of EUTO.
Great post and this is fundamentally why many in the North did vote for Brexit. They were poor in the EU and they'll still be poor out of it.
I empathize with that, but it shouldn't be considered a waste. Rather, they were commendable sacrifices. Without the heroism of your Grandad and your great-uncles the last century could have been very different for us; and not for the better.