jokerman
Vital Football Hero
Did we leave hoping the rules didn't count?
I repeat, we voted for this as we didn't need EU membership in order to floirish. They were holding us back and milking our finances. Now we are free. You should be pleased rather than pointing out that they are keeping to their rules. It doesn't matter wheether there's "anything in it for them". We are free. Rejoice.
I’m delighted we are out of it, I’m just looking for an answer as to how the Eu benefits from attempting to block plants going in to NI because of the British dirt that they are grown in ?
How does the Eu benefit from blocking M&S selling M&S sausages in NI when they sell them in Valletta.
Maybe someone knows
There are high principles at stake here, Shotshy, the like of which you and I can barely grasp. Plus the British soil could be brushed of the plants and smuggled into the Republic as the first step towards re-introducing serpents -alien, Proddy serpents at that.
I do a little bit of EU-funded work from time to time. They have me filling out all sorts before I start and when I finish -mission report, time sheet etc. They send back the time sheet if I say I've done the prep over a weekend, because weekends are a different rate of compensation -if approved- so I say I did it on weekdays. Then everything goes quiet. The site has to fill in a mission report which goes to the agent handling the project. The agent has to wait for all the reports to come in from all the projects which they are handling in that series and then submits them to the entity which the EU is funding. Then the entity has to wait for all the agents' reports accounting for funding in that series before submitting them to the EU. Then the EU has to sign off on the entity's report, and then I gets my money. Anything up to six months. My European colleagues regard this as entirely normal. I forget and so I'm always pleasantly surprised when the cash shows up in my account. Now the Chinese -last day of the project, down to the office, brown envelope bulging with RMB -although less than you expect "We take tax!" and there you are thinking, how am I going to convert this lot?