Blair On Eu Again

[cassa333]

He is saying the EU is different now than a year ago... really!!!

He is saying they are looking at reform.... really!!!

Whatever the changes we get out then perhaps look at opting back into the 'outer circle' if it fits with our aims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40615119

[ToraToraTora]

TGL = The Great Lady, used all the time on here.

[dannyk13]

Lol alba.

[New Judge]

"TGL = The Great Lady, used all the time on here."

Yes sorry, 3Ts. Did not bestow upon the Lady the greatness she so richly deserves.

[albaqwerty]

The Grate Lady certainly grated on my nerves.

[Bigbad]

This is the man who was happy to send British soldiers into conflict without the necessary equipment, and was equally happy to open the floodgates for the migrants to come to the country.

He is just a ‘has been’ who is full of his own self importance and seems to think that what he has to say is worth listening to.
Always disliked and mistrusted him, and would be happy for him disappear up his own backside.

[albaqwerty]

' seems to think that what he has to say is worth listening to.'

it's worse than that, folk are spending money to listen to his diatribe

[Bigbad]

Yes, albaqwerty, some folk are dumb enough to do that, but unfortunately, he is deluded enough to think the rest of us should want to share his wisdom too!

[New Judge]

Yes I imagine the EU is looking to reform. If for no other reason they’ve got to reform sufficiently to do without the £10bn or so they receive from us each year. They had their chance to do so when Mr Cameron went to them with a list of demands which amounted to next to nothing. Sure enough, he returned with slightly less than that.

The EU is incapable of any meaningful reform. It has endured enough crises over recent years to indicate that reform is necessary but still it ploughs in the same ditch. Mr Blair should mind his on business and stick to counting his money.

[albaqwerty]

the EU has been needing to reform for decades, it's now so stuck in the mud and some are happy to sit on the gravy train and not rock the boat
(I know, mixed metaphors)

I'm sure that even after the UK leaves the EU, they will still be haggling over silly stuff, e.g. those bananas are bent.

[fender62]

his wife certainly milked the human rights act, and what a nice house portfolia they have, ahh the common man blair.

[emmie]

how people pay good money to hear him speak i will never know.

[ichkeria]

He is, however, right on this. Regardless of all the other stuff, which is merely sidestepping the issue

[Baldric]

If he were to tell me today is Saturday, I would have to check before I took him seriously. generally you cannot believe a word that he says.

[fender62]

perhaps we could have a love blair because thread...lol

[emmie]

might be the shortest thread ever......

[vulcan42]

He argued in an article in his own institute that there was room for compromise on freedom of movement, and hey Presto some EU leaders may be prepared to compromise. He's like a lot of people these days, once he says something, he believes it to be true.

[fender62]

vulcan42, freedom of movement mm would that be thousands of african and other migrants ferried over to europe, dont think any roma are left in romania as they are already here, altrusim such an ideal..when you can afford it and walk away from it.

[New Judge]

“He is, however, right on this.”

Leaving aside the fact that, like Baldric, I would not believe him if he told me the sun would be rising tomorrow, in what way is he right, Ikky?

The report says he believes the EU is willing to reform. Why should that be so? The only reason they are making these noises is because they face losing the second largest contributor to their ridiculous bloated and unaudited budget. The price they will try to extract to allow us favourable access to their precious Single Market will be almost as unacceptable as if we remained in the EU. They are wedded to freedom of movement of people and any compromise on it will be small and almost certainly temporary. (That’s how they work – concessions are swiftly swept away at the earliest opportunity). Their Single Market is not all it’s cracked up to be and anyway every country in the world has access to it. It’s nothing to make substantial sacrifices over.

Nothing has changed in the EU in the last 12 months. Its masters would like to portray that there is a new order since M. Macron was elected. This means nothing. The EU was constructed principally for Germany with France playing a distant second fiddle and M. Macron will quickly be made aware of this and be whipped into line. The remaining nations are woeful also-rans in the pecking order, there simply to make up the numbers, provide markets for overpriced German goods and (in our case) to provide funds for the Euromanics’ considerable largesse. Anybody who believes Mr Blair has the ear of anybody in the EU to see these principles change is suffering from a very serious delusion.

[gulliver1]

TGT=The Great T+++, used all the time on here.

[Togo]

Thank you gullible :))