Israel makes it through to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest (although the booing will be dubbed out).
Have always wondered, why does the Middle Eastern country Israel take part in the Eurovision Song Contest anyway?
Now I'm guessing that, as Hitler & Nazism and Mussolini & Fascism were European innovations, Netanyahu and Likud and their brutal ideology (Zionism?) fit right in?
P.S. I've news for Netanyahu (and for Putin too), Europe has moved on since the Bad Old Days and the European Union, born from the trauma of the Second World War is a much more preferable role-model for states' best practice nowadays.
This may explain Labours insistence on rejecting any ‘restricted’ movement of younger people between Europe and the Disunited Kingdom. The prejeduices and xenophobia of a minority who will not be effected dominate the futures of many in these islands. A way to win an election maybe, a way to run a country no.
From the article Insiders said that “pensioner hero voters” – those who backed the Tories last time but who may switch to Labour – compared the move to Truss’s doomed plan for £45bn in unfunded tax cuts during her brief prime ministership.
Hero voters? Xenophobic eejits who resent the young and have little idea about the real world.
...#intracomunity#trade (which grew faster than trade with 3rd countries, maybe except for #China in recent decades), ot becomes evident where wealth creation originated.
Having read Michael E. #Porters "Competitive Advantage of Nations"** would have given the #Brexiteers some valuable economic-policy clues, e.g.:
"When a national environment permits and supports the most-rapid accumulation...
If "impoverished" were a decisive yardstick, then many nations should never have joined. Let's think just of #Ukraine as the most-discussed example.
What #Thatcher and many #UK politicians never understood is that the #EU is also a political-integration project, not just an #economic one. The Single Market ceased to to be the single most important aspect of integration when the #EEC became the #EuropeanUnion after the Treaty of #Maastricht...
#Britain's military might might not be what it was before la Guerra de las Malvinas (better known as the Falkland Islands,) but it still is a nuclear power.
It has participated as a junior partner in all major #US-led wars.
But we should also look at the British Isles (sorry, Ireland 😉) rich cultural and political contributions.
#Brexit failed because it was founded on lies. Remain supporters always knew there were no benefits. Leave voters were deceived into voting against their own interests. The real motivation behind Brexit was deregulation/separation to further the pursuit of a perverse right-wing ideology.
Protests and demands for the UK to rejoin the EU are growing steadily in the UK.
On Saturday around 20000 people marched calling for political leaders to embark on yet another complex and highly contentious negotiating path with Brussels.
The UK economy has been hit as a result of Brexit a consequence of the extra trade barriers from leaving the Single Market. Around 62% of Britons believe Brexit is a failure.
@SteveJonesnono1
If he wants to win the next election he needs to grow a backbone. He won't listen to those who want to #Rejoin the EU. However, he listens to oil loving climate change deniers, and the rich with children in public schools (just for US followers public schools are the private, fee paying schools in the UK; state schools are non-fee paying - very confusing). Has he a mind of his own, or is he susceptible to ERG control like all the rest?
Campaigners with Leeds for Europe went to France to discover what EU citizens think about a British return. The response encouraged and moved them. The message from Flanders Fields: “You must come back … ” | Peter Packham
The European Network's Frances Cowell writes about how the rejoin campaign in Britain seems to be gathering steam. But where exactly is it going? If the answer seems obvious, it is much less so when you think about it.
The grounds are apparently that it will add to inflation and possible shortages. No mention of the píss poor preparation for the totally predictable consequences of both Brexit and the group of feckin incompetent ideologues who have power over the four countries that make up a hopefully, soon to be no longer United Kingdom.