llap Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 56 minutes ago, RIchard Britten said: You're right of course. There is no discussing a complicated and delicate subject like the Israel/Palestine situation with a such a ardent Zionist. That's the sweetest thing anyone has ever called me on here. Thank you for the compliment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 21 minutes ago, RIchard Britten said: Corrected for accuracy, unless you'd like to give us a time frame? You have not corrected it, Richard, you have made it incorrect. Even on the most optimistic view, as I said, nothing is for ever in human affairs. Everything has its time and then it dies. Even the UK will fall apart at some stage, despite having been the centre of the most powerful empire the world has ever known. So will the USA. The EU, sickly assembly of reluctant misfit participants that it is, held together by a mixture of coercion, avarice, temptation and patronage will fail quicker than most. Do you think it is going to last for ever? I'd say five to ten years of increasing decline, but of course, I don't have a crystal ball. May be a bit longer. May be next year. Strange how intelligent people seem unable to view the present day through the prism of long term human experience going back millennia. They prefer to think that we are somehow special, and for us, it will all be different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomonkey Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Everything ends eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIchard Britten Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Of course all things fail in time Captain Obvious. But you talk with almost absolute certainty that it will fail in the very near future i.e. in the next couple of years. Got to love "prohpets"...make the claim vague and the time frame "woolley" and you can predict pretty much anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Of course I am stating the obvious, but only because you were denying it, a la Canute. It was you that changed my "when" to "if". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIchard Britten Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 I am not denying it, a la Canute. I am just allowing a wider potential time scale than you. But then you want it to fail and the sooner the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llap Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 So do you think Le Pen will win? I reckon they'll rig the election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIchard Britten Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Just now, llap said: So do you think Le Pen will win? I reckon they'll rig the election. No. She'll lose because not enough people were stupid enough to vote for that goose stepping harridan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llap Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 I'm not saying I'd want to vote for her, but she's better than the alternative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIchard Britten Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 13 minutes ago, llap said: I'm not saying I'd want to vote for her, but she's better than the alternative. How? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 28 minutes ago, RIchard Britten said: I am not denying it, a la Canute. I am just allowing a wider potential time scale than you. But then you want it to fail and the sooner the better. I do. Because Europe will be better off without it. I just hope it doesn't collapse in flames because of the constraints it has attempted to bind disparate economies into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIchard Britten Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 3 minutes ago, woolley said: Europe will might be better off without it Talking from authority again woolley... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 No. That's a certainty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIchard Britten Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 25 minutes ago, woolley said: No. That's a certainty. In your opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarne Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 The sole reason Le Pen is doing well this time is the refusal of the current parties to stand up to the muslim menace. That's it. *shrugs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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