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2005-05-11 Europe

EU votes to ban Britons (and others) from working overtime

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Posted by Bulldog 2005-05-11 14:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And the gulf between the EU states and the US work and income per capita will continue to widen.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-05-11 15:16|| 2005-05-11 15:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Bulldog - my deepest sympathy.

The EU power grab is frightening. And predictable.

Hopefully you all still have time to figure out what went wrong over the last 50 years, wake up enough of the British people to it, and take back your country.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-05-11 15:19|| 2005-05-11 15:19|| Front Page Top

#3 ..Labour MEPs...side with many Socialists, Communists and Greens...

Europe is sliding into a shit hole. No blood or treasure for western europe. Get the US out of NATO and Europe now.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-11 15:24|| 2005-05-11 15:24|| Front Page Top

#4 The EU has begun a steady movement towards what in the US was called "isolationism". That is, reducing their contact with the outside world to set up and protect artificial economic constructs. To deny the free market by refusing to buy or sell in it. Masquerading as "self-sufficiency", its real purpose enlarges upon "protectionism" to try and "protect" their entire unnatural economy. It has been tried, and failed, many times before.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-11 15:39|| 2005-05-11 15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Or, Bulldog, you could move here. A tough option, I realize, but if things keep going the way they look to go, it might be your best bet.

Posted by too true 2005-05-11 15:40|| 2005-05-11 15:40|| Front Page Top

#6 ...wake up enough of the British people to it, and take back your country.

I think the English, at least, are waking up and smelling the ... The increasingly Eurosceptic Tories won the biggest share of the public vote in England this election, for the first time since Labour came to power in '97. We're at the point where pro-Europe Labour is maintained in office by MPs despatched to Westminster by the much more socialistically-inclined Scots and Welsh. They now have a significant degree of autonomy - a parliament and assembly respectively - where the English, ironically, have none. England does now need a voice. If it got one it could well be the first to throw off its European shackles.

Posted by Bulldog ">Bulldog 2005-05-11 15:44|| 2005-05-11 15:44|| Front Page Top

#7 too true - Moving to the US would be most agreeable, but who would be left to fight them on the beaches?

Posted by Bulldog ">Bulldog 2005-05-11 15:50|| 2005-05-11 15:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Me - painted in woad.

Posted by Howard UK 2005-05-11 15:56|| 2005-05-11 15:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Wow.

And there are people who think this is acceptable in a free society?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-11 15:59|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-05-11 15:59|| Front Page Top

#10 "...but who would be left to fight them on the beaches?"

We've got great beaches here; on the East coast there are beaches in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the Carolinas, and of course all of Florida. You can do your fighting from there. Just bring plenty of sunscreen.

Really: come on over, and be free (or at least relatively free).

Posted by Dave D. 2005-05-11 16:14|| 2005-05-11 16:14|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm doing a minuteman stint on the beaches of San Diego this summer - platoon of 1

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-11 16:26|| 2005-05-11 16:26|| Front Page Top

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