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Offline Colwyn

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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2017, 11:58:41 AM »
I really thought you of all people might do a bit of research Colwyn! Tut ut!
I did do some research: I went to Portugal and walked around some of their parks and I came back to the UK and walked around some of ours. Theirs are splendid and ours are not - and they are deteriorating. Portugal is one of Europe's poor countries and we are supposedly the 5th wealthiest on the planet.

[But a most ingenious way of getting your EU obsession into the thread, Stoop! Well done.]



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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2017, 23:48:03 PM »
Portugal have a net gain of €81 per resident. Imagine what we could do with that times 60 million.

I love Portugal but most of the improvements I've seen over the last 15 years are due to their net gain from the EU.

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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2017, 10:38:47 AM »
refuges will travel miles across many countries in Europe just to get to the U.K.
Yep, have to say that the UK is better than Syria.


Not just Syrian many foreigners want to come to Great Britain.  They all cross many countries borders to get to the U.K. They could stay in any of the countries they cross, but they choose not to.
Not only refuges . How about the French guy who was not a refuge, but left a job in Paris two years ago, to come to the U.K with his wife and 8 children? He has a £425,000 house and he is on benefits and also getting child allowance, because Britian was in the E.U.  He moved freely over. 
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/french-dad-eight-who-claimed-9161234









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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2017, 10:58:43 AM »
Well this thread has indulged Stoop with his EU obsession and now JH with her immigrant obsession. Who's next? Someone from the Anti-Universal Literacy Society?

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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2017, 11:17:28 AM »
Yeah, but did you not hear about the guy from Upper Battü who came to the UK with his THREE wives and FORTY SEVEN children - got a fourteen bed council house and a mobility double decker bus all because he said he was a refugee.

Shocking if you ask me.  Sooner we're out of this Europe carry on the better, all these bloody foreigners stealing our jobs and houses.

Mr Angry from Tunbridge Wells

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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2017, 11:23:20 AM »
By it's very nature, isn't a forum a platform for people to voice their opinions which for me are not necessarily obsessions any more than yours are Colwyn.

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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2017, 11:31:29 AM »
Lotty - you're dead right.  However, that also means that Colwyn is allowed to obsess about other folks obsessions, even if they're just opinions.

JF

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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2017, 11:48:29 AM »
Steady on John! This is the "Grumpy" section and you are not really sounding grumpy enough (except when you are in your Tunbridge Wells persona)..

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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2017, 11:54:42 AM »
Bloody Welsh, you lot are never happy.

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Re: Private Opulence and Public Squalor
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2017, 12:06:19 PM »
Bloody Welsh, you lot are never happy.

JF

Except of course when they're speaking their own special language, Winglish !  ;)




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