howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#1
Brian Dixon
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#2
it seems scepitcal to me howard,may be a bit of scare mongering thrown in.but i may be wrong,but lets hope not.and we all know mr farage hates europe more than barry does.so will taking it with a pinch of salt untill proven otherwise.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
i think other cash strapped countries, not only spain, are watching events in cyprus with great interest brian.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#4
Brian, Nigel Farage doesn't hate Europe it's the EU he (and many others) don't like/agree with.
Roger
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#5
Our ex-pats are to be afraid, very afraid, are they?
Has all wisdom, nay, all rational thought flown from us?
Is this not part and parcel of the 'something for nothing' attitude that has usurped all common sense?
As with the financial officers of several local authorities, charged with getting the most out of the investment of public funds (rather than the care and attention and the best deals for public funds) that took the (literally) blindingly obvious steps of investing for the highest 'promised' reward on offer from Iceland.
Our ex-pats in sunny climes enjoy benefit upon benefit. They get all the same monies that pensioners get in the UK with no fear of snow, of cold;on their bones and on their heating and clothing bills, less taxation (perhaps) and in general their 'pound' stretches farther each day that it would here at home. Is it at all right that they too should expect all of this with no fear of any down-side? To the extent that they should be sheltered from adversities that effect their immediate neighbours, not to mention that if they are hit by serious illness they can pop back here to be treated.
To my mind, it can only be the wish of such as these (and the list of 'such as these' is a long one) to not be found out that the moniker of 'scrounger' must find it's home elsewhere.
How on Earth did we arrive at the supremacy of wish-fulfilment over wisdom?
How easily we all forget, or refuse to recall, that when you make a heap you also dig a hole.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#6
i must admit that farage is a moter mouth when he gets going.
Jan Higgins
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#7
Tom it can get very cold in parts of Spain during Winter, not all ex-pats live in the warmer areas you must know. I know someone who lives there in the summer but comes back here in the autumn.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Yes Jan, no doubt that is the case. I have known some, no great sun-seekers, who go there for the winter...
http://en.allmetsat.com/climate/spain-portugal.phpIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Nigel Farage was recently interviewed on Russia Today (RT), when he made the speech about not investing money in the eurozone.
The UK Independence Prty has been receiving the attention of Russian media, Iranian media and that of other countries, in a non-biased fashion, and is regularly mentioned in the British Press as we know.
In the world, when the media want to know Britain's opinion on the European Union or on any crisis connected with it, they interview Nigel Farage as a credible source.
Like most Brits, they don't take any of the three mainstream parties seriously any more.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#10
so farage is a terrorist now.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#11
How do you reach that conclusion Brian ?
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#12
explaind in #6 roger.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#13
No it isn't.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#14
difficult to picture nigel farage marching up to the check in desk at heathrow with semtex in his hush puppies.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#15
roger,#6.only one word needed.