Did he tell you that personally?

I did feel he could reach out more .......

Many a true word spoken in jest - the Brexit camp should have broadcast these during the Referendum.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Oh yes it is I fought under the UNION JACK not the EU handkerchief when I was in the service and proud to do so. I am BRITISH and always will be so stop being a jerk!

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

That is quite true as in Plymouth the thousands of students we have here actually got out of bed to vote "for FREE tuition fees" and they have admitted it in the press. That's how the Labour got the one and only Labour seat in Plymouth.

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

Is it? Stay in the EU and it will be with immigrants from the capitalist price-rigging protection racket cartel that is the EU.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

You're clearly showing your zero knowledge of all EU related topics. How many EU countries excluding the UK have you actually lived in for any length of time? Me?, 5 countries, minimum stay 2 years and that gives me experience of how other EU countries view the EU and the UK and their local cultures. Believe it or not, the UK rarely comes up in any conversation on the continent among ordinary citizens, they get on with their lives and enjoy visiting one another, trading with one another and generally enjoying life. Whenever I visit the UK, people are generally moaning about the cost of everything, property prices, pensions, leaving the EU etc. Depressing.

Well don't visit the UK then and you wont have to listen to all of our moaning and we wont miss you. I lived in Malta for three years and it is not what I call a modern country as they tend to live in the past and rely solely on tourism and fishing. Really Nice people but do not really know a lot outside their little bubble I am afraid.

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

What hurts is the fact that some would be Prime Minister comes out with stupid platitudes about the need to further 'tighten our belts' and 'make efficiency savings to public services' on top of the already substantial cuts, and oldies fell for it and voted for her.

I would have hoped the 'wisdom' of the older generation would have had the common sense to see that further needless austerity while slashing taxes for the rich and corporations was ridiculous and see through the ideological stupidity on offer by May.

Really? Well, you must have been one of the British expats we see here (although less and less as each year goes by), they frequent the Irish pubs, frequent cafes that serve English breakfasts and generally try and keep their lives as 'British' as possible. That of course means they learn little about the culture, history or real day to day life here. If you had, you would know that it's a big financial centre, is the biggest centre for English language training in Europe and over 100,000 divers come here every year , a huge industry. Not bad for a country with a population of only 420,000. Malta never suffered in the 2008-2011 recession as it's economy is very robust. GDP growth 'slowed' to 4.2% in Q1 this year, a rate the UK can only dream about:

"Economy slows, but growth remains more than double eurozone average GDP grew by 4.2 per cent in Q1, NSO figures show"

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So, yeah a little bit more than fishing and Tourism but while on the subject of fishing, it has the largest fish farming industry in the Mediterranean, exporting €millions of bluefin/yellowfin Tuna to Japan where only the best quality is accepted.

Edited by europalace (13 Jun 2017 1.18pm)