No need for an apology, I was certain that you didn't suggest prejudice influenced my vote. I only made my statement for the record, to make sure there was no ambiguity.
I never made reference to his cited article. I referred to his own thoughts in that post. I derived my point mostly from own experience, I grew up in Germany with occasional school exchanges in the UK and hosting exchange students back at home, worked for many years in London, and today am in constant contact with British here in Hong Kong.
"....British premier David Cameron, who told the House of Commons on Monday that London would not be starting formal exit procedures “at this stage”, adding: “Before we do that we need to determine the kind of relationship we want with the EU. And that is rightly something for the next prime minister and their cabinet to decide.” Source: FT It gets odder by the hour. So that the rest of us understands correctly, the UK held a referendum to exit the European Union but now says it has to take time to understand what relationship it wants with the EU. Wasn't the vote all about ending the relationship with the EU? It's like the US presidential candidates getting into the final phase, then elections are held, one candidate gets elected and then he/she declares that he/she needs more time because he/she does not really know what relationship he/she wants with the United States. I get more and more the impression that Article 50 is planned to be used as bargaining chip. That is the real motivation and not that British policy makers do not know what relationship they want with the EU. They allowed the people to choose what relationship they want and they decided. At the very least both sides boldly lied about the referendum being binding while it was never binding in the first place. It looks increasingly to me that the UK is at odds with itself not with Europe. It has issues it needs to work out domestically, not issues with Europe. Immigration has never been an issue as they UK was never forced to take a single person to immigrate into the UK, neither as regular immigrant or refugee. There is chaos in the UK and politicians successfully convinced the broad public that it is the EU's fault. That is what is really going on. If the British really think they can now hold the EU hostage and try to bargain I believe they will lose the last partners in Europe that were actually supportive of the UK and its constant bargaining for exemptions, exceptions, and other special treatments. So far Europeans have been very patient with the UK, and even Europe cannot force the UK when to invoke Art.50, patience is running thin. Nobody is gonna wait until October without writing off the UK completely. Maybe the British should already start to imagine to wait for 2-3 hours at European airports in queue along with the Chinese and other non Europeans to have their immigration and passports processed just to vacation in Spain and Co. Because that is what is gonna happen if the UK believes it can play with the rest of Central Europe. The arguments at least so far that the UK brings forth in defense of waiting and considering longer are ridiculous and an outright lie or on the other hand a testimony to total and 100% cluelessness of what they are doing in the first place. If the British think the Italians, Germans, French are stupid then I believe they take a huge gamble and bet. If the UK wants verbal, emotional war and terror then bring it on. If they want outright shunning of British anywhere else in Europe then bring it on. They can vacation at Brighton beach and on Shell oil platforms while the rest of Europe enjoys beaches free of drunk Brits and crazy hooligans. Europe's patience has been tested and it is losing patience fast. I am just an average guy, trust me, there are other people in Europe that take a much more aggressive and assertive stance towards the UK. Don't expect any more apologetic and repentant attitudes from the new generation of Germans, for example. They have paid for the transgressions of their forefathers. If you piss in their backyard then they will bring out the German shepherd and dobermans faster than the Brits can launch a single nuke. I am willing to bet that when it becomes clear that the UK is trying to push a wedge in between European nations then the UK can start looking for new trading partners. Maybe enough Pakistanis and Indians are willing to buy British products. And the problem of open borders will be solved itself because the borders for British towards Europe will be closed for good.
Oh really? Let's see how you and your friends take the tease to have been kicked out of the Euro Cup by a nation of 350,000 or so people. Lol. That's an absolute tease and it was a great match. Iceland played absolutely splendid. The most expensive soccer league in the world is utterly worthless. Lots of show and little to nothing behind. Go home, I would say is the right way to put it ;-)
More garbage and histrionics from conduit the drama queen. And for others, as a Brit, I was cheering when England lost the football against Iceland. You wouldn't understand this phenomenon I know, because you've already demonstrated how little you know about the UK in general from your Mom's basement in Hong Kong. Here is the Welsh football team's reaction regarding England losing in the Euro 2016:-
One only has to take a glimpse at the comment section in the Financial Times on this topic to see how the educated and intelligent in Europe think about the UK. What is outright amazing is the common and united emotion of Europeans towards the British at the moment. Poles and others in Eastern Europe take the exact same stance than the Germans and French take towards UK's attitude.
Maybe Martinghoul will be able to explain a few more of the nuances. I tried to help you earlier in the thread, prevent you from making more a fool of yourself, but I'm not sure you can be helped. Good luck and goodbye.
Is this to introduce your chaotic family or an example of the Unity the UK is so proud of? Laughing my ass off.
Why Martinghoul? Because you are too unintelligent to phrase it yourself? Or because you have to attend to markets in the same way as you proclaimed yesterday while still bickering for couple more hours?