thecrashingisles

So you're against, say, the system for appointing the European Commission?

I wonder why German activists targetted Tesla rather than Mercedes or BMW.

https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/547524/exxon-asks-traders-in-brussels-to-move-to-london-amid-expansion/ Exxon Mobil asked traders in Brussels to relocate to London, people familiar with the matter said, as the oil giant continues to reorganize its growing trading business. Brussels-based refined products traders were informed on Thursday that they have to decide whether to relocate or leave the company this year, one of the people said.

The UK's outperformace of the Eurozone is becoming a consistent trend in economic statistics.

The EU allows for people to put a progressive veneer on policies that would be seen as far-right in the Anglosphere. If you want to enjoy the benefits of a ghetto-busting, anti-Western migration policy while looking down on the unenlightened racists back home, the EU is the place to be.

2010: German interior minister says asylum seekers should be kept in camps in North Africa and sees nothing wrong with sending people back https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/sz-interview-mit-otto-schily-ich-finde-nichts-anstoessiges-daran-menschen-zurueckzufuehren-1.305629

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jan/27/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices Tony Blair yesterday held out the prospect of Britain withdrawing from its obligations under the European convention on human rights if its latest wave of asylum reforms failed to stem the flow of unfounded asylum seekers.

Is this @Bruce Banner?

Asian energy groups flock to London to set up LNG trading desks https://www.ft.com/content/f6019746-e7df-40da-ad88-53eff8d531c4

Today: £1 = €1.16 Ten years ago today: £1 = €1.15

We're on track for the biggest ever tourism numbers this year. Presumably they're all coming to laugh at us in our isolation? https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-tourism-visitors-economy-international-arrivals-summer-b1097836.html

Not really. It was just a poor attempt to move the goalposts.

It's curious that someone with an international outlook who is very concerned about our image abroad can only cite British sources about how we are allegedly a laughing stock.

You're really quite ignorant. WTO disputes are only interstate. https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/disp_settlement_cbt_e/c1s4p1_e.htm