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Discuss Brussels orders EU flag must fly over Whitehall in Current Affairs, News and Analysis on The Army Rumour Service; Originally Posted by smartascarrots Then as a member of one constituent nation in a union, you presumable have the same problem with the Union Flag being flown alongside your national one? Not really, if some ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by smartascarrots View Post
    Then as a member of one constituent nation in a union, you presumable have the same problem with the Union Flag being flown alongside your national one?
    Not really, if some asks what nationality I am I say English. I was born in England and my parents are English.

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    Quote Originally Posted by h301593 View Post
    Not really, if some asks what nationality I am I say English. I was born in England and my parents are English.
    Do you have a problem with the flying of the Union Flag in England, even though it isn't the English flag?
    We need people who look to the stars, holding the nation and the world in their hearts but at the same time we need down-to-earth people who can do serious and trying work.

    In a definite sense, a country's power and prestige isn't only a reflection of its economic power but also a reflection of its people's quality and morality. Moreover, I think the latter is actually more important in the long-term.

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/multi...na_has_changed

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    Just wait for the follow up in a week or two: "Daily Mail stops eurocrats making us fly their flag".
    I can say the name of that railway station in Wales, as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rampant View Post
    Oh FFS, is anyone gonna post a link to a story with some actual truth or facts in it one of these days? Any why is a Heil story in CA, shouldn't it be in (irony) the Int Cell?
    With pleasure:

    "Behind the main European Parliament complex, I was directed to a newly opened 65,000 sq ft visitor centre called the ‘Parliamentarium,’ which cost nearly £18 million (the original estimate for it was £14 million).

    It is a shrine to excess, packed with expensive technology and featuring welcome messages from every MEP.

    It celebrates the creation of the EU with barely a nod to the crisis raging all around. France’s recent history is marked by a picture of the Tour de France, and Germany’s by the famous Berlin address by Barack Obama in 2008.

    Interestingly, the image used to represent Britain (which, of course, is not a member of the euro) is much less positive.

    We get pictures of the bombings in London in July 2005 and of staff packing boxes at the London arm of Lehman Brothers after its collapse. "




    £7m TV channel and WWII airbrushed from European history... eurocrats are spending like never before | Mail Online

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    [QUOTE=ViolatorOfVirgins;4370170]you have never ever been to Russia/USSR, right?
    otherwise you wouldn't post here that bullshit[/QUOTE]

    I have and I think it's rather funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ViolatorOfVirgins View Post
    you have never ever been to Russia/USSR, right?
    otherwise you wouldn't post here that bullshit
    Have you ever been there? Or are you one of these hippies who thinks he knows what is going on through leftist soundbites and hollywood films?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mattb View Post

    I've posted it before on here, but I'll say it again: DON'T BELEIVE ANYTHING YOU READ IN THE DAILY MAIL, DAILY EXPRESS OR THE SUN UNTIL IT'S ALSO BEEN REPORTED IN A REPUTABLE NEWS SOURCE.
    I'm increasingly minded to include The Telegraph in that unwholesome cabal. A once proud newspaper now sordidly pursuing the same celebrity / Op Ed over news / knee jerk agenda as the others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ViolatorOfVirgins View Post
    you have never ever been to Russia/USSR, right?
    otherwise you wouldn't post here that bullshit
    I actually have been there, as a matter of fact, for work on a 2 week assignment. Moscow and St.Petersburg.

    Bullshit, it certainly ain't, pal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by redshift View Post
    I actually have been there, as a matter of fact, for work on a 2 week assignment. Moscow and St.Petersburg.

    Bullshit, it certainly ain't, pal.
    I think you've hurt his feelings Red. I'd be interested to find out what his beef is.
    Cave ne sit taurus feces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by redshift View Post
    I actually have been there, as a matter of fact, for work on a 2 week assignment. Moscow and St.Petersburg.

    Bullshit, it certainly ain't, pal.
    Enlighten us then, O stranger from a foreign land, regarding the glaring similarities between the Soviet Union and the EU?

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