tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post139650754141132051..comments2024-03-28T15:37:41.163+00:00Comments on FTHN: From the Hornets Nest: PARIS: LA VIE EN ROSE? NON!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-38599462649644684542017-07-18T13:48:08.007+01:002017-07-18T13:48:08.007+01:00Sometimes the Dame has to call a halt: we have all...Sometimes the Dame has to call a halt: we have all had enough. And, how dare you threaten the Dame with refusing to read her jottings.HornetsNesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03986293957148642699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-39615412533536197812017-07-18T11:47:51.259+01:002017-07-18T11:47:51.259+01:00Dame, if you're going to be rude to people who...Dame, if you're going to be rude to people who comment on your site then I'm going to stop reading. You posted the letter telling people not to go to Paris in the first place. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-16888862650193314492017-07-18T11:31:17.490+01:002017-07-18T11:31:17.490+01:00Time for you both to stop going on....most boring....Time for you both to stop going on....most boring.HornetsNesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03986293957148642699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-56547357540619534582017-07-18T09:56:09.361+01:002017-07-18T09:56:09.361+01:00Was going to stop commenting but saw this article ...Was going to stop commenting but saw this article re how we mustn't let pro-Brexit forces whitewash the Brexit vote. At its heart, Brexit was fuelled by racism and xenophobia. I stand by my view that to vote for Brexit one either had to be xenophobic (or worse) and/or gullible (or worse). The extremely high costs of Brexit are becoming clearer by the day, it is a monumental act of self-destructive stupidity. Anti-Brexit forces need to keep speaking this truth as we demand a second referendum once the terms of the deal are known. <br /><br />http://politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2017/07/17/don-t-let-them-whitewash-brexitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-29558370013932167082017-07-18T07:55:29.792+01:002017-07-18T07:55:29.792+01:00Anti-immigrant....not at all....married to one.. a...Anti-immigrant....not at all....married to one.. anti-loudmouthed Americans? Yes, a bit.<br />So everybody who voted for Brexit is either gullible; xenophobic or both? I think you are bonkers and Hillary a crook and married to another. But, let's keep what happens in Arkansas stay in Arkansas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-61978490229950862602017-07-17T23:48:31.165+01:002017-07-17T23:48:31.165+01:00They're my affairs too, I'm a naturalised ...They're my affairs too, I'm a naturalised British citizen. There you go again with your anti-immigrant, anti-American sentiment. Some decent people voted for Brexit but they were gullible. Some intelligent ones voted for it too but they were xenophobic (or worse). And as for calling Hillary Clinton a "crook", it seems like you're taking your talking points from Donald Trump. You have some real nice political role models there, Nigel Farage and Donald Trump. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-76695324597773768202017-07-17T22:38:45.058+01:002017-07-17T22:38:45.058+01:00And one final point there are tens of thousands of...And one final point there are tens of thousands of intelligent, fair minded and decent Britons who voted for Brexit because they objected to the ultimate EU ambition of an over arching federalist super state.<br />Such a thing might find favour with a federalist American but nt with many Brits. Stop sticking your nose into our affairs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-34895431871491628192017-07-17T21:53:45.348+01:002017-07-17T21:53:45.348+01:00So you voted and gave money for and to a crook?
F...So you voted and gave money for and to a crook? <br />Fortunately, I don't collide into too many Americans in RBKC so happy to stay put just as my family has for decades.<br />I don't mind immigrants who are happy to accept a democratic vote: it's the one's that don't who I find tedious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-81870018022915251812017-07-17T19:56:55.615+01:002017-07-17T19:56:55.615+01:0015.06, so you keep saying you don't like Ameri...15.06, so you keep saying you don't like Americans, which sort of proves my point about feeling unwelcome as an immigrant. (And obviously I didn't vote for Donald Trump, I voted for Mrs Clinton and gave money to her campaign.) And you wonder why Brexiteers are accused of being xenophobic (or even racist)? I could turn your point round on you: why would you want to live in a place like RBKC with so many immigrants (including a substantial American-born community) if you don't like them so much? Why don't you just "bugger off" (as 20.46 so delightfully put it) to some crappy part of Little England where they don't have so many immigrants? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-23925622142636546102017-07-17T15:06:14.011+01:002017-07-17T15:06:14.011+01:00I am afraid the idea of a dinner party 'chez v...I am afraid the idea of a dinner party 'chez vous' doesn't sound frightfully appetising but delighted to hear, like Sad Badger, that you have a set or sette of dinner party friends. Dinner parties can be so irksome when one is forced to spend 2/3 being talked at.<br />Until the Germans step in no one can be sure of the outcome so as I said, wait and see.<br />No, France and its people I love: just their corrupt leaders I find irksome.<br />It's just Americans I find a bit crass. A nation that can elect a looney like Trump rather underscores that point.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-2967083178115285512017-07-17T14:24:30.324+01:002017-07-17T14:24:30.324+01:0014.09, hello, 20.05 here. You are exactly right. I...14.09, hello, 20.05 here. You are exactly right. I still like London, especially West London, it is just utterly depressing to be in a country that I feel no longer reflects my values and that is doing enormous damage to itself on many levels. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-12239309172033675772017-07-17T14:20:13.499+01:002017-07-17T14:20:13.499+01:00A Brit, I used to like the UK a great deal too ......A Brit, I used to like the UK a great deal too ...until barmy Brexiteers, spouting rabid rot, crawled out of the woodwork.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-47388622353726330532017-07-17T14:09:48.889+01:002017-07-17T14:09:48.889+01:00I suspect 20.05 likes London well enough but deplo...I suspect 20.05 likes London well enough but deplores the damage that will diminish its greatness. A folly visited on it by foaming-at-the-mouth Faragistas, fiscal illiterates, gullible fools and parochial bigots festering in large numbers twixt the M25 and the border at Berwick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-46136678840081288722017-07-17T14:02:36.611+01:002017-07-17T14:02:36.611+01:00quite!quite!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-10737503830979449322017-07-17T14:01:05.759+01:002017-07-17T14:01:05.759+01:00.....unlike serial Trump brown-nosing Theresa?.....unlike serial Trump brown-nosing Theresa?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-52855992663774135352017-07-17T13:59:14.959+01:002017-07-17T13:59:14.959+01:00Paris 'boringly provincial' - rolls eyes a...Paris 'boringly provincial' - rolls eyes and despairs. 12.55 "Idiot!" (Same meaning ....English and French)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-16868200087447479252017-07-17T12:41:33.879+01:002017-07-17T12:41:33.879+01:0012.29
Aren't you a charmer! Will have to add ...12.29<br /><br />Aren't you a charmer! Will have to add you to my dinner party set. Lots of anti-American sentiment still flowing from you, along with some anti-French. You haven't addressed my points other than a claim to "wait and see". The UK is not going to get a good deal because having our cake and eating it too was never going to be an option. The options are to pay for the Norway option and abide by all the rules without any say in making them, or to leave with no meaningful market access or crash out without a deal, or to revoke Article 50 notification. Those are the choices the UK will have. As for being pompous, well, I guess you don't like hearing home truths. I used to like the UK a great deal but Brexit is turning me quickly... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-51919196415527534092017-07-17T12:29:47.291+01:002017-07-17T12:29:47.291+01:0012:07 stop getting hysterical. Go to France if you...12:07 stop getting hysterical. Go to France if you really want to see a country going to the dogs. Marseille is a war zone; the banlieu around Paris lawless and I am nervous when I walk around Toulouse late at night.<br />Maybe you feel unwelcome because you are a pompous arsehole? Anti-American sentiment is everywhere and always has been. Americans are just not terribly popular and that goes not just for this country but partout.<br />As for £ crashing a few years back it was close to parity with the €.<br />Before you start predicting crap deals let's see what happens at the end of the day. The great puzzle is why you stayed so long in a country you don't really like.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-54020690523292057532017-07-17T12:07:22.366+01:002017-07-17T12:07:22.366+01:00I took out British citizenship many years ago, lon...I took out British citizenship many years ago, long before Brexit was on the horizon. I feel robbed and disgusted by Brexit, looking forward to spending my remaining years elsewhere, this country is going to the dogs and life is too short to put up with crap like this. As an immigrant I no longer feel welcome here, the anti-American sentiment that my post elicited proves my point. The thing you should realise is that I am far from alone in feeling this way--many talented people in many fields are looking at leaving the UK and many more won't come. Not sure what you are claiming that I have said is false. Was it the part about the UK being an international laughing stock? The part about inflation and the pound crashing? Diminished investment? The part about City employers moving jobs out? Or was it the part about Britain getting a crap deal from the EU (that is becoming more and more apparent as the days go by). Everything I said is true. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-18959544561065588642017-07-17T10:39:36.692+01:002017-07-17T10:39:36.692+01:00We are delighted you have options....so why chose ...We are delighted you have options....so why chose a UK passport....most mysterious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-64690490257118339952017-07-17T10:11:10.787+01:002017-07-17T10:11:10.787+01:00I didn't give up my US citizenship (never said...I didn't give up my US citizenship (never said that I did, contrary to popular belief the US allows dual citizenship in some cases). And my spouse has an Irish passport so I'm not without options. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-89338942753383900972017-07-17T09:49:34.181+01:002017-07-17T09:49:34.181+01:00Your idea of the truth is so remote from reality i...Your idea of the truth is so remote from reality it's palpably risible.<br />You are sulking because you went to the trouble of giving up your US citizenship(why?) and took on UK citizenship so you could wonder unhindered around the EU...bad luck!<br />So, our little American banker thinks Bamford of JCB and Dyson of Dyson are xenophobic and gullible? I rest my case m'lud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-68290389664669596822017-07-17T07:33:26.726+01:002017-07-17T07:33:26.726+01:00Impossible to have voted for Brexit without having...Impossible to have voted for Brexit without having been xenophobic (or worse) or alternately gullible (or worse). How gullible did one have to be to believe the lie on the side of the Leave bus about there being an extra £350m for the NHS? Remain ran a poor campaign but the warnings were there, the Leave campaign dismissed them as "Project Fear". Of course this is now becoming Project Fact as inflation rises due to the weak pound and investment levels fall. Britain is a global joke now. Much worse is to come as the reality of Britain's options (all of them bad) become more apparent as negotiations with the EU continue. Well done Brexiteers for screwing us all over. If you don't like my telling you the truth then that's just tough, I guess the truth hurts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-15327716620263554602017-07-17T07:22:44.017+01:002017-07-17T07:22:44.017+01:00So, Lord Bamford and Sir James Dyson are 'gull...So, Lord Bamford and Sir James Dyson are 'gullible and xenophobic'?<br />You sound really up yourself and your naturalisation has done nothing to rid you of your arrogance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-51913041782014732502017-07-17T07:16:47.958+01:002017-07-17T07:16:47.958+01:0020.05 again. I said I was Amerian born, perhaps I...20.05 again. I said I was Amerian born, perhaps I should have added that I am naturalised British so I have as much right to an opinion on Brexit as anyone else (and I never miss a vote). To those who say "well just leave then if you don't like it", if Brexit goes ahead then indeed I will leave. Brexiteers might not like me personally (and frankly I don't know many that I care for, I try to steer clear of people who are gullible or xenophobic) but I pay a lot of tax and I also have served on various non-profit boards of governors. I would prefer to take my taxes, investments, business skills and voluntary contributions to a country where stupidity and xenophobia aren't driving the political agenda. Lots of talented people feel the same way, Brexit is all about loss, no gains for anyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com