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Post by David WadePost by Brian MorrisonOn Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:06:49 +0000
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Post by Brian MorrisonWhile there are bad things that resulted from joining the EEC/EU,
this is not one of them.
Perhaps its the converse, that we left the EU because we , as a
nation, didn't understand the benefits.
You mean the benefits where the traitor Heath forced the acceptance of
the entire Acquis Communautaire in 1973 on the back of a few paragraphs
in the Conservative party manifesto in 1970? The benefits where Jean
Monnet's entire plan and design of what has become the EU involved
removing control of everything from elected representatives and
replacing them with appointed technocrats in Brussels whose edicts
overrode national law without any opportunity to disagree? And a
parliament where no new laws may be proposed, only Commission edicts
rubber-stamped?
Those benefits?
As Tony Benn asked, can we get rid of these people. The answer was no,
we couldn't except by extreme measures.
Post by David WadeJust shipped an old radio to a friend in Holland. Stuck in customs for a week..
Which is fine, that's what customs is for, controlling the shipping of
goods between non-unified trading environments.
Post by David WadePost by Brian MorrisonThe reason for the paucity of education in English language and
grammar is down to people within the education system and the
establishment who decided that excellence should be suppressed in
favour of uniformity and who corrupted the education reforms of the
1940s so that by 1970 grammar schools were derided and
comprehensive schooling (which certainly was not comprehensive) was
the soup du jour.
Well as someone who missed out on grammar school but still got five
o-levels, then did three a-levels and went on to do a polytechnic
degree I am pleased we had semi-comprehensive schools.
I think I also benefited from the fact we learnt little grammar but
were encouraged to be creative..
Wouldn't you have liked to do all of this rather than a subset? I think
it would be immensely beneficial to everyone to understand their own
language, its origins and how it is constructed.
Post by David WadePost by Brian MorrisonThose that drove this appear to have been motivated by a dislike of
Great Britain and wished to see it fail. On current progress, they
appear to have achieved their aim in some respects.
bollocks. We are where we are because we, as a nation look at the
cost not the value.
Read George Orwell's foreword to Animal Farm, the one that was not
published at the time the book was but in the 1960s. I find it
enlightening.
Also read Peter Hitchens' book "A Revolution Betrayed". Also very
interesting and symptomatic of the desire by certain people to level
down at every opportunity.
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Brian Morrison
"I am not young enough to know everything"
Oscar Wilde