What will be the "Realist Regiment" group think on this? "Protect the EU at all costs"? Or "The Baltics aren't proper countries and they are in the traditional sphere of… (View Post)

The problem with "Special Case", from the EU point of view, is that it opens the door for every politician in Europe with a bone to pick and a special interest to appease. Spending 20 years… (View Post)

Yeah - go out in the sticks in France and see houses for sale for 50K, as a normal thing. Sure, there are big expensive places - the locals giggle about the English who buy the 8 bedroom house in the… (View Post)

More that he saw the boom in finance as allowing the spending he'd always wanted to do. So it wasn't a boom. "We've abolished boom and bust". So he treated the boom as busine… (View Post)

While we are at it, can we have toilet cubicles that are big enough for humans? Rather than dwarves made out of pipe cleaners? (View Post)