John Ward February 11, 2014 London Tube strike off

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WORDS

Tube strike called off: Unions halt second walkout at last minute after reaching deal . U.S. derivatives watchdog chides industry for providing “gappy” data on $630 trillion market. Greek Coalition Parties PASOK and New Democracy default on repayments of €270m they owe to banks. EU commentators routinely referring to ‘the definitive repudiation by the German High Court of the ECB rescue device called the OMT’. UK Rates to rise this year as economy picks up, says ex BoEngland deputy governor

Earlier at The Slog: UKip decidedly shifty on issue of EU flood Directives

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alexei on February 12, 2014 at 1:22 am

@ Mark Deacon
Not sure what sort of explanation you’re expecting – I was simply quoting OpenEurope about Ms Reding’s churlish and condescending approach. As to “the real issue”, I’ve done my own due diligence on the subject and reached my own conclusions, which would need an entire chapter rather than a few lines to put down.

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justiceforkevinandjenveybaylis on February 12, 2014 at 12:32 am

Reblogged this on justiceforkevinandjenveybaylis.

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bill40 on February 11, 2014 at 10:15 pm

@ PW

Like wot ‘e just did.

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John Ward – Around The World In 80 Words – 11 February 2014 | Lucas 2012 Infos on February 11, 2014 at 9:59 pm

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penniewoodfall on February 11, 2014 at 8:29 pm

How do you go around the world in eighty words ?

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Mark Deacon on February 11, 2014 at 8:07 pm

@Alexi you don not explain why this situation arises. We bitch and moan about the simplest of things that annoy us but never as the question why? So what theyt hiding by having this state of affairs is what you shouold be asking.

For too long the real isssue has been hidden.

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alexei on February 11, 2014 at 7:34 pm

From OpenEurope today:- http://www.openeuropeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/when-ukips-recruitment-sergeant-number.html

Nigel Farage : “After hearing Commissioner Reding admitting 70% of our laws are made by the EU I am willing to sponsor her doing a UK tour”

OpenEurope says : “Where to start with Viviane Reding? She visited London yesterday as part of her so-called ‘Citizens’ Dialogue’ – which is neither about citizens nor a dialogue – and gave a very impressive performance. Somehow, she managed to offend absolutely everyone.

The British public by questioning whether they “know what they are going to vote about” in a potential 2017 EU referendum,
The British media by suggesting it “completely distorts the truth” over Europe,
The British government by rubbishing large parts of its strategy, most notably on the crime and policing opt out and EU free movement,
Europhiles by suggesting that “70% of the laws in this country are made, co-decided, by the European parliament” (meaning that the share of EU laws, according to Reding, must be higher since not all EU decisions are made jointly with national parliaments) – a “euro myth” that ivory-tower types in the UK have spent years trying to “dispel”, and ironically, used as Exhibit A in their accusations of “misinformed media” (“6.8% of primary legislation” and all that),
The Ukrainian protesters by praising their brave, pro-EU stance, and then later saying she has, unlike the UK, “never pushed for further enlargement” instead favouring deeper integration.

So in short, the British are too ignorant to vote, British media all misinformed and 70% of UK laws are made in Brussels. As one person put it on Twitter, it’s hard to think of better “rocket fuel for those who want to quit the EU”.”

Actually, I have read for many years that the true number of our laws made by the EU is 80%, which Ms Reding stated in Stockholm last year: “Did you know that 80% of Swedish laws are not Swedish laws? They are European laws that have been translated into Swedish legislation.”

It’s quite astonishing that there are still any European citizens left who feel this is a laudable state of affairs.

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failedevolution on February 11, 2014 at 6:04 pm

The beginning of the final provocation operations in Greece?

http://tiny.cc/psp4ax

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william on February 11, 2014 at 5:02 pm

Well , how else will you defend Sterling , post the May European elections ,the collapse of the existing farce of the coalition government , in the run up to the long over due GE, but by putting base rate up to 2.5 percent , to calm down the housing market in southern England, prior to the arrival at the Treasury of the two Ed’s….

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