Re: Stopping the boats

Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:24:01 +0100
> Citizen Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > And I reckon apart from the wanting to "take back control of our
> > borders", a lot of people that voted Brexit did so because of the
> > attitude of the French. For example, Charles De Gaulle twice vetoed
> > Britain's entry into the EEC. Null points in the Eurovision Song
> > Contest ;-) They don't like us. We don't like them. Simples.
> 
> 	Nobody in Europe likes anyone else in Europe!

They like us even less.

> That's why the EU was
> preceded by a thousand years of war. The original core of the EU is
> essentially an agreement between Germany and France not to go to war with
> each other - heartily endorsed by the nations between them! Not because
> everyone liked each other but because war had become unacceptable.

You heard of NATO?

> 	The biggest problem the EU as a whole had with the UK was the way
> the UK kept on demanding special treatment - and getting it.

Not enough to keep the British electorate happy, so we left.
Democracy is action.
Some people don't like losing so they bleat on incessantly.
Sore loser syndrome.