Bread, that was flippin months ago.
First, I can’t recall that I personally ‘demanded’ anything. I’m not as bolshie as you you know.
Besides which it never arose as a dire imminent issue as the lockdown restrictions were considerably eased before any necessity arose.
Why you are harping on about it months after is beyond me to fathom … and why you ‘insist’, and quite belligerently I might add … that you deserve a straight answer …is also beyond me to fathom.
What’s up? Not enough controversial subjects on here so you thought you’d manufacture some?
What happens if I fail to challenge or convince you that your viewpoint is not the only definitive opinion?
Do I go before a firing squad with Made by Bread stencilled on the bullets?
This is months old. It is also grossly off-topic and you might not have taken the hint but I’m not interested in engaging in debate with you since you called me a ****.
As you expected the courtesy of an answer … you have just had it.
Returning to the original topic of the Opening Post, I tried to find an update on the Plans that were reported in the OP 6 months ago.
It seems there’s not a lot more to report yet because a month’s consultation about the Single Market Emergency Instrument only began towards the end of April. I couldn’t find any reports of any summaries of the Consultations yet, so maybe it’s too early to say exactly what new powers will be enacted by any future EU legislation in this respect.
The time table was being set a few days ago -
European Commission expected to present Single Market Emergency Instrument in September
Brussels, 18/05/2022 (Agence Europe)
The European Commission discussed the possible presentation in September of the Single Market Emergency Instrument (SMEI) on Tuesday 17 May before the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).
“The objective is to have an impact assessment in July and a proposal on the table of the Commission, possibly in Strasbourg, in September 2022”, said Giulia del Brenna, Head of Unit of the Commission’s single market department
Russia does NOT have a command economy. The USSR did but it imploded when the USSR fell apart 30 YEARS ago. In fact its command economy had been fraying around the edges for a good 30 years prior.
Mr Macron seems to have lit another flame with his appointment of Ms Colonna as his Foreign Sec.
Here’s a description from the DT:-
"She has been a loud critic of Britain’s stance since Brexit.
In December she told the French Senate that “Following Brexit, the UK Government had the choice between two possible attitudes: try to moderate the impact of Brexit and get closer to its European neighbours or continue to play an aggressive policy by identifying Europeans as the main source of difficulties.”
The UK chose “the latter course,” she said.
She added: “All the ‘knife strokes’ made to the contracts - that is to say the withdrawal agreement with the Northern Irish protocol of October 2019 and the trade and cooperation agreement of December 2020 - were by the United Kingdom.”
As for the Northern Ireland Protocol, said: “We must fight the vision that Northern Ireland is in a totally disorderly situation, as the British government is trying to convey. This strategy is actually aimed at renegotiating the Northern Irish protocol or the triggering of Article 16.”
“Today, and we regret it, Franco-British relations are deeply affected, less by Brexit than by the way the British Government is implementing it.”
As for the migrant crisis over dangerous small boat crossings from France to the UK, she said: “France is making much more effort in this area than the United Kingdom, which tends to forget this.”
I’m not saying you should give a toss, I am questioning your assertion that it is common sense to " look after number one and bugger anyone else". Some people don’t want to behave like that, it would make them feel bad about themselves. It isn’t common sense to behave in a way that makes you feel bad, it is only common sense to behave selfishly if it makes you feel good. In other words, it isn’t universal common sense.
If your attitude is “bugger anyone else”, isn’t the implication that yourself is all that matters? How is that not being selfish?
