Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:19 am  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23118035 Concerns about corruption and organised crime, 1/5 unemployed, and the national debt officially classed as 'junk'. Welcome to the great European project

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23118035 Concerns about corruption and organised crime, 1/5 unemployed, and the national debt officially classed as 'junk'. Welcome to the great European project

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:29 am  

It's no laughing matter. It's just another drag on this country - like most of Southern and Eastern Europe, the beaurocracy and the resultant immigration. That part of the reason for falling living standards here.

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:31 am  

That and the gays, of course.

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:54 am  

They said similar things about us when Ted Heath took us into the Common Market, over the next ten years this country absorbed a huge amount of EU subsidy and grant money for infrastructure projects (of which the company I worked for was a huge beneficiary, indeed I owe my initial employment to EU money).

Its how the EU works, you invest money into poorer regions and reap the benefits years down the line as they grow more wealthy, its just the planks who can't see that.

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:04 am  

More stunningly beautiful Eastern European women can't be a bad thing at all.

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:05 am  

Dally wrote:

It's no laughing matter. It's just another drag on this country - like most of Southern and Eastern Europe, the beaurocracy and the resultant immigration. That part of the reason for falling living standards here.

You are Nigel Farage and I claim my £10 or are you Nick Griffin in disguise ?

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:05 pm  

Dally wrote:

It's no laughing matter. It's just another drag on this country - like most of Southern and Eastern Europe, the beaurocracy and the resultant immigration. That part of the reason for falling living standards here.

I'd have thought you'd be in favour.
Croatia is 90% Christian, so 9 out of 10 of any who do decide to come here will boost the Christian head-count.
Mind you, their entire population is less than that of e.g. Yorkshire, so don't expect a massive swing.

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:33 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Its how the EU works, you invest money into poorer regions and reap the benefits years down the line as they grow more wealthy, its just the planks who can't see that.

No you throw money at hopeless, peasant economies, create a bubble that bursts and then you have to pay all over again. Think Spain, Greece, Eire for starters.

If you extend that to Britain - look how wealthy those regions have got - so wealthy they no longer need public spending to keep them afloat.

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:39 pm  

Yes Dally, we''ll be overrun.

Just like we were by the Poles, Ukranians and other accession country nationals all coming over here and claiming our benefits.

Why, I can barely walk down the street without being accosted by Romanian beggar children trying to pickpocket me.

Look out everyone, Dally's back in Chicken Licken mode again.

Re: Croatia Joins EU : Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:40 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Yes Dally, we''ll be overrun.

Just like we were by the Poles, Ukranians and other accession country nationals all coming over here and claiming our benefits.

Why, I can barely walk down the street without being accosted by Romanian beggar children trying to pickpocket me.

Look out everyone, Dally's back in Chicken Licken mode again.

Think you've posted that on the wrong thread. This thread is talking about the economics of the EU.