tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post2410539219554350599..comments2024-01-16T08:40:53.682+00:00Comments on <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk">Open Europe</a>: Will Tusk take over from van Rompuy, and what would it mean for Cameron?OEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00556463374230498875noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-36719637598042992342014-07-22T12:14:00.803+01:002014-07-22T12:14:00.803+01:00Tusk in this role would be another slap in the fac...Tusk in this role would be another slap in the face for Cameron and Britain - He is no allie to us.<br /><br />Why are all those shown to be against Britain getting all the top jobs? <br />It's all to do with making sure the UK's pays the heaviest possible price for resisting fedrealism, but also to make sure that it becomes very hard for the UK to actually leave the EU.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-42302564040781050112014-07-18T11:59:03.339+01:002014-07-18T11:59:03.339+01:00@JMR
Yes, we get on well with the Poles, partly fo...@JMR<br />Yes, we get on well with the Poles, partly for historic reasons and partly because, well, we just do. However, we also have in the UK plenty of friendly Germans, Dutch, Italians, Spanish and even French! The British are not anti-European, particularly on a personal one-to-one basis (this Average Englishman has been mistaken for a German in Austria and elsewhere on more than one occasion) but... and it's a big but, one cannot just set politics aside. Just because we in the UK can get on with our neighbours (my recollection of history is that others started the wars in Europe of late and that the UK population with a little help from our buds in the Commonwealth and the US did a wonderful job at great cost to achieve peace), does not mean to say that we want to be ruled by them and permit them unlimited access to our country.<br /><br />Sadly, politics cannot be just set aside when the likes of the EUSSR are set upon establishing a new (albeit very outdated in our modern global society) empire with the UK as a vassal state. So, when the UK leaves the EUSSR (please God make it soon) we can still welcome as many Poles and other nationalities to our shores AS WE LIKE, not as many as Juncker and his unelected cronies would like. We can also find out better just how well we might get on with the Mexicans, the Chinese, the Indonesians, etc., etc., etc.Average Englishmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-22983433090554703842014-07-18T11:41:31.432+01:002014-07-18T11:41:31.432+01:00I agree with JMR on this one. The Poles were our v...I agree with JMR on this one. The Poles were our very good allies. We treated the abominably after the war, when Churchill ceded to Stalin and refused the Poles to march in our victory parade (look it up, I know this is hard to believe). I have no trouble with any Pole who wants to come here and work. But the Polish leadership was weaned under the control of the Soviets, and now, free at last, like battery chickens let out into the sun, they rush in to allow themselves to be ruled by another unelected dictatorshipRollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18255460090580758354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-54783912233558367402014-07-17T12:56:04.854+01:002014-07-17T12:56:04.854+01:00Putting politics aside for a moment, there is an a...Putting politics aside for a moment, there is an affinity in the UK with Poland and the Poles stemming from WWII; did not the Nazi invasion of Poland trigger our own entry which subsequently led many Poles to come here and continue fighting? Later many remained here having married British girls. The recent further "invasion" by the Poles never worried me because I have come to regard them as 'two of a kind' with usJMRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-19107859299425163432014-07-17T12:13:08.244+01:002014-07-17T12:13:08.244+01:00For all his faults, Tusk is at least a good judge ...For all his faults, Tusk is at least a good judge of character: look what he thinks of Cameron!Rollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18255460090580758354noreply@blogger.com