Brimstone wrote:
> ®i©ardo wrote:
>> Brimstone wrote:
>>> Knight Of The Road wrote:
>>>> I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government £27.20
>>>> for the priviledge. What the fuck is that all about?
>>>> We didn't ask for loads of people to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to
>>>> fire rockets about, we didn't ask for the 2012 Olympics, we're not
>>>> currently demanding ID cards.
>>>> And we never wanted that Dome thing either.
>>>> When is Gordon Brown going to realise that working-class people
>>>> voted him in and working-class people are going to vote him out?
>>> The Tories introduced VAT as a result of them taking us into the
>>> EEC/EU. So, nothing to to do with Brown, blame Heath.
>> ...and Labour fought them tooth and nail on the issue?
> It was Thatcher who signed the Maastrict Treaty,
> that brought about even closer integration.
You seem very confused on dates - Value Added Tax was introduced in the
United Kingdom with effect from April *1973*.
Nothing whatever to do with the Maastricht Treaty of 1991 (which came
into force in 1993).
> So for al the Tories hot air about the UK remianing "independent"
> they're the party which has tightened the links with the EU.
We joined the *Common Market* in 1973, not the "European Union".
We were not told about common passports, or about not being able to stop
the citizens of twenty-plus countries - some of them the dregs of
humanity - from entering the UK without let or hindrance. Whatever the
original aims of the "project", it seems clear that a significant chunk
of the UK's population has become disenamoured of it since the reality
of the situation became apparent.
Thank God for the Danes and the Irish, eh?
