Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

[Scot Dutchy]

Just stop and think. You have a number of countries that want to work together. What structures do you put in place to organise it? That is what faced the foundling fathers of the EU.
For me what the EU has achieved is incredible. The UK just does not see that because it is blinded by its adversarial mind set. It cannot comprehend how people work together. It was top dog in a corrupt empire. It has never known anything else than corruption. It thought it could walk into the EEC and take over after the failure of EFTA to get off the ground and why was that? Arrogance! Pure and cold blooded. The same has happened with the EU. Like a load of court jesters trying to take over. Nobody wants you. So you know what to do and I am quite sure Trump will allow you to become the 51st state.

[mistermack]

The Wiki snippet doesn't support your claim.

Perhaps you can spell it out for us?

Yes it does. And the spelling is fine.

[JimC]

What about the language thing that mm mentioned? Will there be an arm wrestle between French and German?

(nobody should now mention cheese-eating surrender monkeys... )

[Svartalf]

LOL, unfortunately, the time of French as a universal cultural and diplomatic language is well past since the Versailles treaty, I guess we'll keep English because just nobody will agree on German, too hard to learn and too much historical baggage.

[JimC]

Well, as mm said, keeping on with English is bizarre in a way, given that the UK is going...

Esperanto?

[pErvinalia]

German would have to be the most widely spoken language in Yoorup, wouldn't it?

[Scot Dutchy]

As far as I understand English will remain as it is the official language of two members.

[mistermack]

As far as I understand English will remain as it is the official language of two members.

Do you have their names? Maybe they can be persuaded to change.

[Scot Dutchy]

Republic of Ireland and Malta.

[pErvinalia]

Bruce and Sheila.

[Scot Dutchy]

They dont speak English.

[Brian Peacock]

American Cornish pasties? Did King Arthur die for this?

Say “Cornwall” to an uncontacted pygmy brave deep in a New Zealand forest and his bamboo flute will swiftly carve the shape of the Cornish pasty into the Shotover riverbank sands. “Oggy, oggy, oggy,” he will cry, as he mimes pushing a too-hot Cornish pasty into his unambiguously delighted face. “Oggy, oggy, oggy!”

But last Monday, the feast day of Cornwall’s proud Saint Piran, American food industry lobbyists revealed plans to exploit the end of our protection by the EU’s regional foods scheme. American “Cornish” pasties could be on their way into Britain. And yet Arthur, who swore to return if his land was imperilled, sleeps soundly still in his Tintagel cave.

American Cornish pasties? Say the horrible words and savour their bitter taste. Was this desecration what Leave-voting Cornwall voted for? Did proud Cornwall want the crusty foodstuff that has made Kernow beloved worldwide replaced by a foul foreign fake? Did Arthur die on adulterous Mordred’s lance to see the sacred pasty cuckolded so? Did Henry Jenner, bard of Boscawen-Un, strive to revive Cornwall’s lost language for his cultural inheritors to ask the man in Pengenna Pasties for a King Size American? Did the noble Cornish folk want nothing more than to be Donald Trump’s Brexit pasty whores? Because that is all they are! ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... _clipboard

[Scot Dutchy]

Wait till you get American Cheddar cheese and American Wensleydale sausages. Nothing will safe. Full of corn syrup.

[JimC]

If it can be made illegal to label any fortified wine "Port" unless it is made in Portugal, surely the same can be done for a pasty...

[Svartalf]

well, to start with Merkins do, or at least used to, tend to label any kind of fortified plonk as port... and the thing is that real port may now be protected by treaties about European Protected Origin products, but soon Britain won't have the benefit of those treaties, and I doubt it will have the leverage to protect the Cornish pasty in whatever trade agreements it signs with the US