The Luftwaffe never gained air supremacy because Britain had the Spitfire. If the story told about the BoB is correct, a Luftwaffe commander when asked what he needed to beat the British retorted ”Spitfires, I need Spitfires"!
What I think dsfrance is referring to about the Alcasians star is the dreadful atrocity at Oradour sur Glane which is not far from where they (and us) live in France. Only a part of the story is being told clearly; there is much more behind it - much of it untold, particularly the bits about the members of the WaffenSS who were inexplicably exonerated after the war by the newly formed de Gaulle Government.
Is this some kind of competition to see who can Google the most information about WW2 ?
I understand the thread to be about DC wanting to take a European lead to reform the unaccountability and inefficiencies that exist and to make Europe what it was always meant to be - as opposed to what it has become.
Really not sure what this has got to do with us being grateful to Poland, or despising Germans cos some of them were Nazi's. That was then and this is now, we are in the here and now dealing with about 3,000,000 Europeans who currently live and work freely in Europe and around 2,000,000 Brits that live and work freely in Europe.
I think that the anti European stance seems to be to ignore the fact that the 3,000,000 contribute more than they take out (see UCL study in earlier thread) and to undertake a bit of "posh" ethnic cleansing and "send them back." Wonder what will happen to the 2,000,000 Brits living and working in the rest of Europe? Will we see the likes of GnV marched out of France and deposited on the beaches of Dunkirk to make their own way back to the great and glorious England?
OK - You clearly don't want to make any effort at all to understand the issues.
In this country there are approximately 50% of the population working and about 35% of the population in retirement. If there were no immigration then the ratio of people working against those retired will decrease. This increases the defecit because less workerts are having to support an increasing population of retired people.
The most basic of economic assesments indicates that this is unsustainable and more tax revenue is needed. The country needs MORE not LESS working people. If it is easier to get European migrants in who are known to pay more in taxes than they take out in benefits then the defecit issue is tackled in multiple ways. More tax revenue to support the current welfare expenditure on the native population and more tax revenue to pay for the increasing number of retired people.
Every job that a European immigrant has had has been open to a UK national resident. The reality is that 3,000,000 or so Europeans have arrived here and taken jobs that Brits did not want. In many cases new Companies and new jobs have been created whilst the long term (native) unemployed continued to moan that there are no "good" jobs.
If you can't see that the UK needs migrant workers then you are truly blinkered and your vision of Utopia Anglo Saxon Glorious UK is about as flawed as anything could ever be X 100.
Illegal immigrants are general not European migrants. This thread is about European migrants and your wish along with others to end the free movement of labour across Europe and get the Europeans out of this country.
Seems the British are once again coming to France's aid.
UN Security Council resolution isn't it Star, would be quite remiss of us as Security Council members to vote through an intervention and then refuse to chuck some personnel and hardware at it. None-combat role, though I suspect that might well change. For the moment though we're content to wheel out a couple of the usual big guns, see if they can't sort it out. I hear Bono and Bob Geldof are already selecting their hats in readiness for their photo ops. Shame they've just missed their slot for a Xmas single. Still, there's always next Xmas, time enough yet. ;)
