France!

[czechmate]

Yep, UK overall trade has increased since Brexit, only the share with the EU has decreased a bit, but that is rarely mentioned. Similarly, high UK inflation is blamed on Brexit, but that doesn't explain why Austria, Sweden, Czechia, Latvia etc. have higher inflation than the UK.

Nor does it make sense to blame Brexit for the UK looking like it might enter a recession, but not to enter a recession, and yet not attribute the Eurozone actually being in recession to Brexit.

Fact is, the lovers of the EEC / EC / EU spent decades telling us that membership would bring benefits, but that it just needed more time; yet the same people now are trying to attribute anything that goes wrong to Brexit, even when it patently isn't. Plus, for some reason, they don't seem willing to give Brexit even a few years, let alone the decades of patience they called for on behalf of the EEC / EC / EU.

Czech Republic is held back…
by not being in the euro

 

[caveman]

Czech Republic is held back…
by not being in the euro

They'll be reet with the Rouble.

 

[Danllan]

Czech Republic is held back…
by not being in the euro

What about Austria, Latvia, Poland etc.?

 

[czechmate]

What about Austria, Latvia, Poland etc.?

Austria banned glyphosate, obviously they were doomed

 

[caveman]

Austria banned glyphosate, obviously they were doomed

They probably not got a bank account.

 

[czechmate]

Austria banned glyphosate, obviously they were doomed

probably. They were just trying to make some sovereignty point

 

[Exfarmer]

Has the Genie escaped from the bottle properly this time?

Predictions that this is going to be much more difficult to quell than the 2005 riots as there is now a much greater national spread of non-nationals than there was then.

Also, if trouble erupts in more rural areas are the native French going to stand back and let it happen?

This could get proper nasty.

Quelle suprise un riot en Paris, Sacre Bleu!
meanwhile world news, scientists discover bear s**t in the woods

 

[Danllan]

Bit odd that the ever-so-EU types haven't claimed there is 'Russian money' somewhere behind this; after all, we can be certain they'd come up with such a line if anything were to kick off over here...

 

[czechmate]

Funny, on the “ex pat in France” Facebook group , there are Americans now asking- “is it safe to come to France?”
Plenty of Americans on the group who live here, replying “much safer than America!”
It’s like they have forgotten all about the constant uprisings from American police shooting young black males

 

[Muck Spreader]

Bit odd that the ever-so-EU types haven't claimed there is 'Russian money' somewhere behind this; after all, we can be certain they'd come up with such a line if anything were to kick off over here...

There you go:
Commie leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon tweeted overnight that “the guard dogs are ordering us to call for calm.
Nazi leader Marine Le Pen, has defended the shooter and claimed that he acted in self-defence.
Both are Putin luvvies and financed by him.

IMO Macron took the correct action in arresting the shooter and letting the courts decide the outcome.

 

[le bon paysan]

Struggle to see why or how someone finds the situation at all funny in any way?

Started off with a young life being lost, irrespective of the circumstances, and now mindless destruction.

Neither hardly a laughing matter.

If you read something about the start of this , please make it this.

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John Lichfield
@john_lichfield

There was a 3rd night of rioting – the worst so far – in multi-racial suburbs across France after a 17 years old boy was shot dead in the Paris suburbs by a traffic cop on Tuesday am. The dead boy, Nahel, 17, was driving a bright yellow Mercedes registered in Poland. In Poland?1/















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The Polish reg of the car has been little commented in the French media. It is, in fact, not so strange. For several years there has been an on-line rental business of doubtful legality renting Polish-reg Mercs and Porsches to young men in the French “banlieues”. 2/









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The expensive cars are often used in “rodeos” – demonstrations of wheelies and other edgy driving skills – in suburban housing estates. They are rented on-line for between Euros 300 and Euros 3,000 a day. 3/









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Several police investigations are in progress into the legality of the ephemeral companies which buy them on credit and then rent them out – often disappearing before they have made all their repayments. 4/









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Nahel and two friends were stopped by police after driving fast in bus lanes though Nanterre, just west of Paris proper, at around 8am on Thursday. It is unclear whether they had just picked up the car or had been out all night. 5/









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The police sergeant (brigadier) who shot the boy dead has told investigators that he meant to shoot him in the leg after he refused to get out of the car. His arm was jogged when the car moved forward, he said, and he shot Nahel in the chest. 6/
In his original sworn testimony, the policeman said that he had to fire because the car was trying to run him down. That was shown to be nonsense by a video shot on a mobile phone in which he and his colleague are seen standing beside the car when the shot is fired. 7 ENDS

 

[fudge]

Bit odd that the ever-so-EU types haven't claimed there is 'Russian money' somewhere behind this; after all, we can be certain they'd come up with such a line if anything were to kick off over here...

Well Le Pen is on record as supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea. I wonder why? She probably agrees with Boris Johnson that not all Russian money is bad money.

 

[le bon paysan]

Funny, on the “ex pat in France” Facebook group , there are Americans now asking- “is it safe to come to France?”
Plenty of Americans on the group who live here, replying “much safer than America!”
It’s like they have forgotten all about the constant uprisings from American police shooting young black males

Friends staying with us got a text from the people house sitting for them, "Are you safe? We think you should come back . France is falling according to BBC."

 

[le bon paysan]

Not often I link to "The Guardian", but I'll make an exception so there's no danger of being accused of spreading right wing anti-EU propaganda.

France riots: hundreds arrested in fourth night of unrest as 45,000 police deployed

France’s interior minister says that “significant reinforcements” have been sent to Marseille where more than 80 people have been arrested

www.theguardian.com

Lots of the rioters are 14 and 15. Being set up by older scrotes.

 

[le bon paysan]

Well Le Pen is on record as supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea. I wonder why? She probably agrees with Boris Johnson that not all Russian money is bad money.

Marine Le Pen is heavily in debt to Russian lender.

Le Pen’s Party Paying Back 12 Million Euros to Russian Firm: WSJ

Far-right French Presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen’s party is paying 12 million euros ($12.94 million) to a Moscow-based military contractor, as part of a settlement it reached in 2020, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Russian and French government records.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[Danllan]

Well Le Pen is on record as supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea. I wonder why? She probably agrees with Boris Johnson that not all Russian money is bad money.

And Merkel, and Macron, and Scholz too initially, although to his credit he has seen the light; are you really trying to equate Boris with a neo-Nazi, really...? As for accepting 'Russian money', what about a Russian subsidy?

 

[fudge]

And Merkel, and Macron, and Scholz too initially, although to his credit he has seen the light; are you really trying to equate Boris with a neo-Nazi, really...?

They supported the annexation of Crimea as well? Must have missed that.

 

[Danllan]

They supported the annexation of Crimea as well? Must have missed that.

Did Boris accept that? Merkel / Germany and Macron certainly did no more than Boris on that count, and far less than him when he had power - good of you mention that.

 

[fudge]

Did Boris accept that? Merkel / Germany and Macron certainly did no more than Boris on that count, and far less than him when he had power - good of you mention that.

Boris did defend the acceptance of “good” Russian money in the mother of parliaments after Putin invaded Ukraine. Mind you I will accept he could have mis-spoke. He was good at that.

 

[oil barron]

Funny, on the “ex pat in France” Facebook group , there are Americans now asking- “is it safe to come to France?”
Plenty of Americans on the group who live here, replying “much safer than America!”
It’s like they have forgotten all about the constant uprisings from American police shooting young black males

There are many parts of America, that some Americans wouldn’t go to. Chuck and Nancy ain’t going to vacation in downtown Detroit.