Re: The Sheer Arrogance of Guy Verhofstadt in Full Colour Tonight.
Originally Posted by
JBR
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We're just watching Part 2 now and remarking on some EU politician having a right good pick of his nose in front of the camera!
The impression I get straight away is that the EU bureaucrats are as sick and tired of May as most of us are.
One question I'd like to ask them (though I'm not going to Brussels to do so) is if we leave the EU without any deal (or 'crash out' as the snowflakes would have it), why should we have to pay you £39 billion?
What exactly would we receive for our £39 billion, apart from a very nice thank-you, of course?
The other thing I've noticed is that most of them speak in English (that being the real international language!), but the Frog (Barmier, I think he's called) refuses to use English and insists on speaking in French. I'm sure he does this because he, like many of his countrymen, resents us!
Hi
I will try to answer reasonably.
Of course it is galling to have to pay.
The first half of it I am in agreement with.
It is what our Politicians agreed to before Brexit.
Signed up to, not with our consent, but that is the way it works.
If we renege on that we will pay far more, in Interest Payments alone, on our National Debt.
Get over it, it is cheaper to pay than not to pay.
A simple fact of life.
Not to pay puts us into Junk Bond Status, we are not Venezuela.
The second half irritates me intensely.
We are paying that because May triggered Article 50 without all the systems in place to leave.
That was the critical mistake.
That is what lost us all credibility not only with the EU, but with the rest of the World.
Everybody and their mother knew that No Deal was not Credible due to lack of getting ready.
She still hasn't.
I am disgusted.