solarpunkandrobots

I find their attitude to the EU inexplicable. We all know Labour is overwhelmingly pro EU, and the voting public itself strongly regrets the vote. Unless they are lucky they are going to find the Lib Dems taking the former moderate Tory vote, Labours current centre vote and the normal disillusioned voter all governments generate and creating a pretty threatening new voter block.

I'm optimistic about it, especially if America continues falling apart and completely undermining the whole point of brexit. The actual public right now is split about 60 / 30 in favour and if thats as durable a change of heart as it looks rejoining is a matter of time and Reform / Tories running out of inexplicably hostile pensioners somewhere around the next 2 elections.

Just don't build your life around because its still going to take a while even at this rapid pace.

The EU in the future will be a power house with further waves of new members, reforms and integration. Theres no real reason for it to stop within Europe just because that is in the name assuming suitable potential members are to be had across the Med in the future. If the current EU was counted as one state in the stats instead of individual countries it would already the worlds 2nd largest economy.

One of the most frustrating things about brexit is that dodgy Dave held it virtually as late as he possibly could before the brexiters destroyed themselves. Even just a year or two later any vote would have had the shadow of Trumps insanity over it.

France with a completely serious hat on is most of the reason the UK is as pro US as it historically has been. They've tried to block or impede our involvement with practically every European project, leaving us with little practical alternative.

And the reason this happened is ironically because they fear letting us in with let the US into Europe

Its a good show with a very silly tone hiding some crazy plot lines

Far beyond time for this to be in the bin, I think there is one other country in the world that allows it. Hopefully the day will come when renters are placed on the same footing too, even if its clearly not going to be any time soon.

Also on Groves reforms just happening to include ways for landowners to undermine the entire system while superficially looking good, thats not some accident.

Worth pointing out that even in the UK those numbers are now 50 - 30 in favour as of this week.

What does that have to do with anything? Wars aren't won by the number of bodies on the front, they haven't been since ww2.

Most of Europe was too cosy with him, and thats all gone now its clear appeasement / containment / dragging Russia in the west culturally has utterly failed. The entire northern hemisphere seems to be in the initial stages of realigning into 3 great blocks.

And judging by history, those who stand outside them will be crushed between them.

I still have alot of the level layouts burnt into my memory. Several very memorable places you can line the walls with grenades and trivialise MIB ambushes ahead of time :).

Very few games really allow you to build a character that ranges from practically undetectable to rocket launching robot chewing monster in quite the same way, and most of those are its sequels

The EU isn't a global power, thats a major part of why this happened in the first place.

That its clearly in Europes interests to become a unified state that can do things like send its own large 1st rate army to defend its borders will be one of the major consequences of this war. It will light a fire under federation efforts.

I don't see how the government could afford this. Even Labour is on a full blown cutting spree.

A nice thought but theres no chance of the Americans agreeing to it. More realistically Europe / the EU would have to create a separate continent defence treaty and guarantee Ukraine entry into that.