Bruce...Cometh the hour, cometh...Sir Tim Barrow.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-a7510761.html


Sir Tim Barrow: UK's new ambassador to EU 'tough negotiator' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38512901

Thank you. So, is that why you are so concerned about us leaving the EU?

Forgive me, but as someone who has followed you progress through the twists and turns giving and taking abuse on these forums, if you have such an idyllic life in France why do you spend the best part of your days posting on here? Why not take off to the sea or the mountains? You obviously don't like the UK or its people?

Forgive me, but as someone who has followed you progress through the twists and turns giving and taking abuse on these forums, if you have such an idyllic life in France why do you spend the best part of your days posting on here? Why not take off to the sea or the mountains? You obviously don't like the UK or its people?

Ye gods, not another brexit thread .....

No.
Why do you think I am concerned for myself?
Brexit won't change anything in my life.

I will still live in a stable economy.
Where the health care is superb.
Where the standard of living is lovely and far cheaper than in the UK.
Where the weather is wonderful and where I can get to the mountains and the sea in 40 mins.
Where older people are looked after and valued.
Where I have open space, peace and quiet around me.
Where I never see a traffic jam. On the motorway I usually count less than ten other cars within sight.
Where trains run on time; no queues at supermarkets and a fantastic choice of local and imported food.
Where I can go to Spain or any other EU country without being stopped and buying fabulous quality anything there too.
Where the culture is rich and I have five cities all within 2 hours of my home.

How would Brexit change any of that?

What fascinates me is the sheer self delusion that Leavers live in.
and the sparse understanding of what you are deciding the future of the country on.

I am watching a car crash at slow speed by someone who doesn't know how to drive but who was given the wheel for one brief moment and who will drive it straight into the ditch.

A kind of compulsive horror.

Losers, eh? Live in France

AKA "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys"

General Patton was quoted as saying... "I'd rather have a German Panzer Division in front of me than a French Division behind me", which just about says what he thought of the French military capability and their trustworthiness.

General Norman Schwarzkopf said "Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you leave behind is a load of noisy baggage"

The typical attitude Froggie twiddlers have towards the world is that of superiors, they see themselves as the key to the world's problems -- trying to tell the Septics (yanks) how to do things in the Middle East, yet they have less experience, and would just scarper anyway. The typical demeanour of a Frog is smoking whilst sitting on white metal chairs outside a cafe, sipping from a cup the size of a snail.

Frog military doctrine is played out as follows: Enemy Spotted-Retreat-Shift the blame. And since this doctrine was practised in WW2, they have done little else.

Don't seem to have won a war ever. They use the FAMAS rifle which is built for retreating only, the rate of fire is so fast because they cannot aim with their backs turned. There is no truth in the rumour that FAMAS stands for "Fritz, AM About to Surrender". Well not much!.

Defence policy consists of outsourcing any war fighting to more capable (less cowardly) organisations (ie. us) and concentrating on core competency (banning British beef to prop up own farmers and inventing strippers).

The only good side of the French Military is the French Foreign Legion. Much like the Gurkhas, It was often labelled by Press as a Mercenary Force posted to colonies in North Africa and Southeast Asia, but its soldiers swear no allegiance to France, only to the Legion and to each other. Well worth respecting.

Statistics show that in 25 years the majority of people living in France will be Arab.



Despite all the above, good country to be in if you like cheese and wine.

One of the big things will be the bill for leaving, successive UK Governments, never thinking that we would leave, have previously signed up to significant financial commitments, including paying our share of the Pensions for EU Civil Servants.