Friday, 13 April 2018

Not a great look for Germany or its politics



The piece to add to it is some people context.






dearieme said...

If Germany is getting into bed with Russia then history suggests that France will try to get in bed with Britain. Frexit?

Anyway, we should spurn an alliance that might drag us into silly bloody wars. The money spent on Trident and GCHQ is what would allow us such initiative.

Anonymous said...

Highly amusing.
And there are the EU telling the UK that there can be no separate deals within Brexit and everything has to be agreed through Brussels.

dearieme, as for the French.they can do one.

Nick Drew said...

Could be a Really Big Story. More on this when I get back in a day or so.

Nick Drew said...

Dearieme, do you know what the Irish reckon to this new EU drive for an army + bellicose foreign policy of its own? Their accession treaty guarantees their neutrality - which was easier when the EU had no designs on being a warmonger...

Electro-Kevin said...
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Electro-Kevin said...

What gets me is "The Nazis did it."

Well actually, the Germans did it.

Now I don't for one minute expect Germans to have to atone forever but when "the ENGLISH !" are hammered at every single opportunity I don't get it. How are the Germans given such an easy ride - especially by the BBC ???

andrew said...


"Germans get a richer at Poland's expense by doing dodgy deals with Russia" is not really a headline in the UK, we dont really care.

Core brexiters will see their views confirmed.
Closet remainers will have a feeling that matches when your dog does a big poo on a friends carpet whilst no-one is in the room, and then you walk in - and in a small corner of your mind you think that there is probably a German word for that - something like 'hundkumpelteppichgeheimnis'

I am sure the french have done and will do worse.

What is being reported in Italy / Poland etc is much more interesting...
If I was in govt there, I would be wanting a _lot_ of compo

Electro-Kevin said...


James Higham said...

Ireland's going to be in some bother once the EU finally tanks.

Anonymous said...

"Gerhard Schroder, the ex-Chancellor, who has long been in Putin's arc"

For which read "is not actively hostile to Russia as a good European citizen should be*".

* see EU Directive 1213/98 of 2012, not publicly released until last week due to an administrative error. What do you mean, "who voted on it?" Are you a Russian troll?