Nice one Switzerland - your message noted!

[threegee]

The Swiss applied to join the EU 24 years ago.  Since then they've become less and less convinced that it was the right thing to do, but have left their application on the table just in case circumstances changed and/or the people had a change of heart.  They even agreed to be part of Schengen, but two years ago asked Brussels to allow them to set  immigration quotas to protect their public services and standard of living. Their polite and earnest request was turned down flat by Merkel and her cronies. That's about the time they decided they'd had enough, but didn't do anything much about it at that time.

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Switzerland had been brutally treated as a nation aspiring to join the EU, in all its negotiations. It had to accept idiotic bureaucracy in the previous era of the Europhiles. Now Switzerland is a more independent nation and in a better position to negotiate with the EU.

Well... in a beautifully timed move just seven days before our referendum, they've told the EU to consider their application withdrawn; that it can forget that Switzerland ever applied to join, and that they are utterly set on being an "independent sovereign nation".  This is designed to hit the EU at the most embarrassing time, and also send a hearty message to British voters.

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This is a clear and historical message from the Swiss parliament to British voters. We wish you the best of luck for Brexit. These days, Switzerland is called Britzerland because Swiss people support the Brexit. A big advantage of leaving the EU, is free trade worldwide, not only between the member states, making it easier and cheaper for British companies to export their goods to the rest of the world."

At least half of Europe (including 61% of the French) are hoping we are going to give the Eurocrats what they've been asking for for over 30 years, and we mustn't disappoint them.  We're part of a great continent that is being trashed by its political elites, and a continent that once again desperately needs our leadership.  We are never listened to in Brussels, and our sincere and well reasoned reform proposals are always outvoted.  It's no wonder that Cameron got nowhere with his watered down proposals, and ended up dropping five of his nine "lines in the sand" and neutering the other four. But, we CAN exert very powerful "influence" for the reform that Cameron is always going on about through our referendum result.  In fact a Brexit vote will shock Brussels to its very core; it will then have no option but to start listening to real European citizens, and not the international business lobby groups who currently pull all the strings.

Don't fall for the simplistic lie that a Leave vote is being a "little Englander".  Amongst other valuable things a Leave vote is being a responsible and caring European - just like our Swiss friends!

Love Europe -- Hate the EU -- Help Europeans -- Vote Leave

[moe19]

Not a mention of this on BBC or SKY only on RT.

Why should folk pay a licence fee to hear sanitised news 

 

 

[Canny lass]

The above quotes refer to a vote by the Federal Assembly on March 1st. It was thenhad to be approved by the Council of State for approval. That approval came on Wednesday - yesterday. The decision made by the CoS is that Switzerland will withdraw its request for accession to the European Union. It hasn't been done yet. I'm sure it'll make the news soon. I heard that it was on TT today.

[threegee]

TT?

It won't make the BBC until the Guardian has approved it as entirely PC!   There's probably a now rapidly-filling tray marked Hold until 24th June. Actually, not all BBC news editors are beyond the pale, but the bad has tended to drive out the fair-minded.

It's a bit like posting comments on the BBC website: you rapidly learn that you are wasting your time and what actually appears is only a what they want to hear.  Anything remotely criticising the BBC itself, no matter how politely it is phrased, will be ruthlessly deleted under the flimsiest of excuses, or otherwise consigned to a moderation committee where it will languish for ages until it is no longer topical.

[Canny lass]

TT: Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå, the Swedish national news bureau.

Sorry about that. I have the same problem with a lot of the English abbreviatons.