Re: [NetBehaviour] question/s for the list

2019-03-14 Thread Edward Picot via NetBehaviour
Helen, I for one would very much like you to be queen. Edward On 14/03/2019 12:09, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote: my 2 cents, speaking as a new zealander with a british passport living in germany - i completely agree with edward that the greatest tragedy of brexit is that is is stealing

Re: [NetBehaviour] question/s for the list

2019-03-14 Thread Helen Varley Jamieson
my 2 cents, speaking as a new zealander with a british passport living in germany - i completely agree with edward that the greatest tragedy of brexit is that is is stealing precious time, energy & money from the environmental and social issues that really matter. it's obscene and completely

Re: [NetBehaviour] question/s for the list

2019-03-12 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
I really appreciate these replies; I've been reading and watching far too much rhetoric. The BBC, for us, is nothing like Fox news; at least in their reportage on U.S. affair, BBC Int'l is the best televised source we have. And I do a lot of news watching. The replies you sent explain a lot; the

Re: [NetBehaviour] question/s for the list

2019-03-12 Thread Edward Picot via NetBehaviour
Both parties are paralysed by the fact that amongst their grassroots membership are big numbers who voted "leave", for whatever reasons, and who would be infuriated and feel betrayed if there was another referendum: they'd see it as the metropolitan intelligentsia and the upper middle classes

Re: [NetBehaviour] question/s for the list

2019-03-12 Thread Julian Brooks
One take, amongst many no doubt: It's a bloody disaster (basically) - economically, culturally, psychologically. Any-ology. While there's a very strong argument that the European Commission is not much more than the lapdog of hypercapital, the European Union is a wonderful thing and I am still