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December 12, 2011 12:36 pm

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Homfray/510980099 Mike Homfray

    Are these people totally bonkers?

    First its Switzerland, then Norway, now Hong Kong

    If they can’t understand that the make-up of this country is drastically different from any of those three examples, it just shows that they must go around with blinkers on, or they really do believe that the nation ends at the boundary of the M25.

    There is not one characteristic which we share with any of those three examples  which would indicate that we could survive taking this direction

    • Anonymous

      I will ask the Welsh Assembly if they can perhaps make Wales an offshore safe haven, and also become the capital of the 419 scams, we have nothing else.

    • Ianrobo

      we had a local tory councillor spit out just stats about Switzerland and Norway yesterda. When challenged all he could say is he places the stats out there. Stats without context are pointless but the Tories understand that the less you say the more you can fool people.

      Norway could not be more different than us. 43% of GDP is industrial output and the UK their biggest export market at 23% and why ??

      All to do with Oil and gas of course and if we had the levels they did we would be fine !

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Homfray/510980099 Mike Homfray

        And how exactly is a population of our size going to be able to reflect the high-spec labour specialisation of Switzerland?

        Offshore finance alone can’t begin to meet our needs

        • Ianrobo

          don’t need to ruin a tory tea party myth Mike.

          Also look at how much the bnailout of UBS cost them and the liabilities of the other banks ?

          We jhave to remeber the Tory tea party would also want flat tax rates, no social care, a privatised education and health sector and soup kitches for those who can not afford it.

          It is a fantasy land dressed up as politics.

        • Bill Lockhart

          “And how exactly is a population of our size going to be able to reflect the high-spec labour specialisation of Switzerland?”

          Perhaps by insisting on the same standards of state education which obtain in Switzerland.  Then maybe we could earn 23% of our GDP from high-quality high-tech manufacturing as they do.

  • http://tangentreality.blogspot.com/ tangentreality

    Er… he’s right?

    • http://twitter.com/Newsbot9 Newsbot9

      Sure, all London needs to do is ditch the rest of the country.

    • Dave Postles

      Do you want the transaction tax that operates in Hong Kong as well?

  • Tom Keeley

    It is hard to imagine a lees ambitious vision for the future of our country than as a protectorate that became rich by virtue of not being something else!

  • Anonymous

    At least this daft little self-publicising slaphead didn’t imply that some sort of parallel existed between his small beer anti-European efforts and the actions of Publius Horatius Cocles on the Pons Sublicius at the Tiber. What a little twit.  

  • Anonymous

    Has anyone actually read the document to which Mr Cameron was asked to agree?
    http://consilium.europa.eu/media/1216793/esm%20treaty%20en.pdf

    http://www.parker-joseph.com/pjcjournal/2011/08/31/esm-treaty-eu-commission-mafia-at-work/

    Please don’t comment until you know what you are talking about. Me, I am a Tory Troll.

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