William Black wrote:
The gods have made us mad wrote:

Not to mention the EU military conscription forms dropping through
the letterbox - how proud you'll feel when your own eligible
relatives march off to do their bit for the empire...

Do any EC countries still have conscription?

Very soon, *all* EU states will have conscription.

Special Care wrote:

Why are you so anxious to show your prowess in intellectual
wrangling, Maria?

You wouldn't say that if I was a bloke.

Trust me, if *this* upsets you, you're in for apoplexy in the next few
years as Europe finally puts the boot in!

You have slavishly supported what is, very probably, *the* most wicked,
corrupt, repressive  and generally pernicious government that the UK has
ever been cursed with

The gods have made us mad wrote:

Trust me, if *this* upsets you, you're in for apoplexy in the next few
years as Europe finally puts the boot in!

Bwahahahaha. Yeah that's it, the other 26 countries comprising about 450
million people in the EU have only one purpose, only one desire, to put
the boot into the UK

It really is time you grew up.

As for trusting you, I wouldn't trust you to go down the shops and buy a
loaf of bread.

Lou Ravi wrote:
The gods have made us mad wrote:

Trust me, if *this* upsets you, you're in for apoplexy in the next
few years as Europe finally puts the boot in!

Bwahahahaha. Yeah that's it, the other 26 countries comprising about
450 million people in the EU have only one purpose, only one desire,
to put the boot into the UK


I should have known! - and post contain g the slightest references to
'kicking', 'booting' or other kinds of footwear related assault has
you buzzing around like a wasp at a picnic.

It really is time you grew up.

As for trusting you, I wouldn't trust you to go down the shops and
buy a loaf of bread.

Such is the nature of our humiliation as a formerly great nation is
betrayed.

It's rather like that true son of England, the Hovis baker's boy - he
who valiantly pushes his heavy all-steel bicycle up the steep cobbled
streets of County Durham, delivering the weighty goodness of
wholegrain English wheat to working class hero's just back from the
trenches - metamorphosing into into an effeminate Frenchified thing,
mincing on his cosmopolitan way with his basket of baguettes, each
one filled with airy cotton wool and hand-wrapped in declarations of
surrender.

John Bull is now in chains - and worthless titterers like you gloat
about his plight.

Mel Rowing wrote:
On Nov 5, 12:53 am, The gods have made us mad
star... at (no spam) destruction.com> wrote:

You have slavishly supported what is, very probably, *the* most wicked,
corrupt, repressive  and generally pernicious government that the UK has
ever been cursed with

Thou shalt not bear false witness!

Can you name a worse one?

That's the bit I don't get - if I've got it right, the principle of
Parliamentary sovereignty means that no government can put into law
anything that would overturn Parliamentary sovereignty. It would
simply not be valid. Or have I got it wrong?

Not sure, but Parliament had to ratify the treaty (not that it was any
trouble for the government to achieve this result)...

The HOL would be perfectly capable of declaring this unconstitutional as
far as I know.

There is a higher proportion of foreigners serving in the British army
than living in the UK. The last time I looked at the MoD web site it
said about 10% of soldiers are foreigners, and that didn't include
Ghurkas who are about another 2% of them...

Your contempt for brave men is noted.

But you have previously asserted - in quite strenuous terms - that the
Ghurkas are paid mercenaries, not soldiers. Why is it that they are
mercenaries one minute and soldiers the next? It couldn't possibly be
because it suits your particular argument at the time, could it?

White Spirit <wspirit at (no spam) homechoice.co.uk> writes:

But you have previously asserted - in quite strenuous terms - that the
Ghurkas are paid mercenaries, not soldiers. Why is it that they are
mercenaries one minute and soldiers the next? It couldn't possibly be
because it suits your particular argument at the time, could it?

But are mercenaries not a proper subset of soldiers?

The gods have made us mad wrote:

William Black wrote:
The gods have made us mad wrote:

Not to mention the EU military conscription forms dropping through
the letterbox - how proud you'll feel when your own eligible
relatives march off to do their bit for the empire...

Do any EC countries still have conscription?

Very soon, *all* EU states will have conscription.

What is the basis for this claim?

William Black wrote:

Your contempt for brave men is noted.

In another thread, you were describing terrorists as brave. That surely
constitutes contempt for brave men.

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.politics.misc/browse_thread/thread/ddda647542cc855f

"William Black" <william.black at (no spam) hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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Special Care wrote:
On Nov 5, 1:05 am, William Black <william.bl... at (no spam) hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
The gods have made us mad wrote:

Not to mention the EU military conscription forms dropping through the
letterbox - how proud you'll feel when your own eligible relatives
march
off to do their bit for the empire...
Do any EC countries still have conscription?

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Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee

Just wait, laddie.

"Do any EC countries still have conscription?"

Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee
Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee

Conscription is an integral part of the EU project, you fool !

Lack of any content noted.

I saw some content. The claim that conscription is part of the EU project.

It's a pretty wild claim. They do want an army, but they want it to be a
volunteer army. And it should be more like a police force or gendarmerie,
going around the world doing good deeds in benighted places.