I can understand why you don't want to talk about those shocking statistics.We all remember the lies pre referendum that remainers were telling everyone "think about our children".How dis-honest they were knowing, throughout a lot of EU countries ,there was mass unemployment for the young.It was really criminal coming out with lies like that.
Happy to talk about it and absoluty shocking as its personal tragedy and a lost generation. Just odd that you linked to my post above.
I can see Spain youth unemployment was 18% in 2007, just above the EU average. It rose dramatically after the credit crunch recession of 2008 (which we all know started in the US banking system). By 2013 it rose to 50%, over double the EU average.
My question is why the credit crunch hit the youth of Spain in particular & so serverely? I wonder why you think its all down to the EU? I'd ask why you think Spain would have faired better in this period as an independent country?
The area south of Alicante right down to Torrevieja [Costa Blanca] was known at the time as the biggest building site in Europe with money mad developers throwing up properties like there was no tomorrow with tens of thousands of these properties standing empty
most only partly finished as gm said it was unsustainable but the EU was impotent & did nothing to halt what was nothing more than capitalist greed
New motorways were constructed from EU grants [as you say] with tolls being imposed in spite of being contrary to EU rules
A new airport terminal at Alicante was built about 5 years ago from EU grant but the old one which was perfectly adequate now lies dormant & attached to the new one which I have to say is magnificent
Spanish gov't has royally pulled down the EU's pants & by association the UK as we pay a hefty contribution
It's good to know my taxes have contributed to Spain's roads, airports,hotels & seafronts all of which I enjoy & pay for
Thought I'd resurrect this for the biggy vote toneet. Seems to have drifted down the board a bit. Is it because we had a small matter of a game with Man C, a poor run of form or just people are pissed off with it?
We all know its gonna get soundly rejected toneet but i aint a clue what will happen next. My only guess is that article 50 will be extended and we will play for more time to get a solution. (God knows how much more that will cost us). So this thread is likely to run even longer...
Also a bit pissed off that this vote has not already been taken by now. Nothing has changed since the last cancellation. I watched parliament live yesterday (yes, I have a sad life) and it was like a repeat of the last time a vote was due. Same old questions and the same old answers. Got me thinking that MPS are pretty thick really if they expect any different answers to their questions. All May has done has taken the ball into the corner flag put her foot on it and prayed for the final whistle. The woman is loopy beyond repair.
Last edited by rolymiller; 15-01-2019 at 12:55 PM.
All these arguments on this thread have we forgot a people's vote happened over two years ago and it was a vote to leave full stop. If our mps ignore that vote the trouble in Paris will be nothing compared to what will happen here. Even remain voters should be worried that our mps hold the general public in contempe. Sorry if I've spelt that wrong