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How much would EU citizenship be worth to you?
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Why would I? We live in the best country in the world as far as I am concerned.
Haven't been to the EU in years, no need to, we tend to holiday elsewhere. Certainly do not intend to work there.
If the EU now decides to make us spend a fortune to visit one of the countries within their protectionist boundaries (at least whilst the EU exists) then they will not get our spend.What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare0 -
£100 per yearOnce the non-native, non-white, non-Christians have been 'sorted' and the intellectuals, experts and gays have been re-educated it'll be the turn of those traitorous remoaniac liberals who had the audacity to buy EU citizenship.
I can't wait for the 5th golden era of prosperity and enlightenment.0 -
£100 per yearEnterprise_1701C wrote: »If the EU now decides to make us spend a fortune to visit one of the countries within their protectionist boundaries (at least whilst the EU exists) then they will not get our spend.
It's not likely to be a fortune, it's likely to be in the £10's to visit, but potentially with much longer waits to get VISAs or pass through borders.
On the plus side, duty free will actually be duty free again :j0 -
Nothing at all. I'm perfectly happy, isolated in little englandOnce the non-native, non-white, non-Christians have been 'sorted' and the intellectuals, experts and gays have been re-educated it'll be the turn of those traitorous remoaniac liberals who had the audacity to buy EU citizenship.
I can't wait for the 5th golden era of prosperity and enlightenment.
This is why the left is discredited and continues to be.
Disagree with the ideology of the left, you're a nazi. You vote Britain First where possible, failing that you vote UKIP and you're a "kipper" too.
Antithesis of logic.0 -
It's not likely to be a fortune, it's likely to be in the £10's to visit, but potentially with much longer waits to get VISAs or pass through borders.
On the plus side, duty free will actually be duty free again :j
That's true, would have to factor that into considerationsWhat is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare0 -
£100 per yearTrickyTree83 wrote: »This is why the left is discredited and continues to be.
Disagree with the ideology of the left, you're a nazi. You vote Britain First where possible, failing that you vote UKIP and you're a "kipper" too.
Antithesis of logic.
I tend to think that we should blame the move to the right on the people that vote for it rather than those who don't.0 -
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Nothing at all. I'm perfectly happy, isolated in little englandI tend to think that we should blame the move to the right on the people that vote for it rather than those who don't.
When the left becomes too ignorant and arrogant to listen to people where are these people going to tack? Further left, or to the right?
You've demonstrated the basis for the move to the right quite well by being so dismissive. It couldn't possibly be political correctness gone wrong or the perversion of the left by the social justice activist/warrior movement.
Rather than ask why, you seek to apportion blame, steadfastly sticking by the regimen that anyone who thinks differently is by default wrong.0 -
It's not likely to be a fortune, it's likely to be in the £10's to visit, but potentially with much longer waits to get VISAs or pass through borders.
On the plus side, duty free will actually be duty free again :j
Why is it likely to cost anything? We never needed Visas to visit Western Europe before we joined the EEC. You don't need a visa if you are from Canada, the US, Mexico, or Australia. Why should they impose visa controls on UK citizens (unless they really hate us).
I can't see border crossing times changing. We already have border controls between the UK and the rest of the EU (except for Ireland) as we didn't sign up to Schengen.
I'm not convinced we will see a return of Duty Free. I think we should be aiming for tariff free trade with the EU, which would probably rule out duty free. Although the EU will reject free trade in the early years as part of our punishment for having the audacity to desire self-government, I think it will return in due course once our continental "friends" calm down.
But if Duty Free comes back, it will be good news for the airlines and the ferries. Probably good news for HMG as well, as it will be easier to clamp down on the black market that has been opened up by van loads of products being brought in for "personal use".0 -
£1000 per yearTrickyTree83 wrote: »Disagree with the ideology of the left, you're a nazi. .
The NAZI's were the ideology of the left...;)
Nationalsozialismus - The National Socialist Party - whose predecessor was the German Workers' Party, and was later renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party after Hitler gained control of it on a platform of 'Putting Germans First'.
Interestingly they too were vehemently opposed to international cosmopolitanism, worried about immigration 'diluting their culture' and had a real fetish for condemning the educated and moderate politicians, lawyers, journalists and academics who opposed them as members of 'the establishment' or 'the elite' - code for what later became 'traitors of the people' and finally 'enemies of the state'.
Anyway I digress...
Seems that whether of the left or of the right, following charismatic politicians who dislike internationalism and pander to populist nationalist sentiments is never a good idea....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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