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Re: OT: can you remember...

From William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: OT: can you remember...
Date 2016-03-15 19:51 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2016-03-15, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> ...how little fuss was made about our JOINING the EU - merely a little 
> trade treaty, we were told. The Common Market.

You clearly were not around when the joining happened. It was hardly
"how little fuss". There was a huge fuss. I think you have an axe to
grind which makes you either completely misremember history, or
purposely distort history.

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> None of the stuff that has emerged since or is a political hot potato 
> now was ever debated.

Where in your long life did you ever get the impression that trade
treaties were not political?  Or that "new" things did not crop up in
any treaty.
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> Were they unaware? Or did they lie to us?
>o
Or they assumed that the electorate had some intelligence?
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OT: can you remember... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-15 08:54 +0000
  Re: OT: can you remember... Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-03-15 11:43 +0000
  Re: OT: can you remember... Yrrah <Yrrah-acf@acf.invalid> - 2016-03-15 18:58 +0100
    Re: OT: can you remember... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-15 18:19 +0000
  Re: OT: can you remember... William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-15 19:51 +0000
    Re: OT: can you remember... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-16 11:57 +0000
  Re: OT: can you remember... "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-03-15 22:33 +0100
    Re: OT: can you remember... gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-03-16 09:36 +0000
      Re: OT: can you remember... William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-16 16:53 +0000
        Re: OT: can you remember... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-16 17:46 +0000
  Re:OT: can you remember... dlbendigo  <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-03-16 15:22 +1100

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