Is this the New Winston Churchill?

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by arthursmedley

*ten minutes out of the couple of hours I had allocated to enjoying CoD with the new wunda-patch. Sigh.............................................. ..............

it's not working for you then? I'm toying with the idea of reinstalling CoD now, but I also got scared by some of the screenshots that came out

[arthursmedley]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

it's not working for you then? I'm toying with the idea of reinstalling CoD now, but I also got scared by some of the screenshots that came out

If you haven't got CoD installed at the moment I don't think it's worth the effort in order to be disappointed by this Alpha patch. Not that much of a problem as RoF and squad coop's in IL2 are still keeping me amused but my first thought after trying out what is supposed to represent months of re-writing was "It's gonna end up like Microsoft combat flight simulator 3!"

[baronWastelan]

Thanks Herr Otto for posting someting on-topic. I just wonder if you have any knowledge of Mr. Farage other than the short clip I posted?

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

Thanks Herr Otto for posting someting on-topic. I just wonder if you have any knowledge of Mr. Farage other than the short clip I posted?

Well i only know his (not all of course) speeches made in the EU Parliament and it's quite almost the same: "I'm against it, the bad EU, the bad this and the bad that.The Germans dominate the EU, the Germans here, the Germans there"
Actually quite a bore imho.
It is always easy to be against something, specially when you know you never have to show your voters how you would do it better as Prime Minister.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Strong words softley spoken Otto Bongo...

[arthursmedley]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

Thanks Herr Otto for posting someting on-topic. I just wonder if you have any knowledge of Mr. Farage other than the short clip I posted?

Ooops, sorry Baron back on topic;
As a Brit I would say Nigel Farage is an engaging and rather likeable man with an excellent public speaking style who's views do represent a fair proportion of British public opinion at the moment and it's quite likely his political party - UKIP will get the biggest share of the vote at the next elections to the European parliament.
Kongo Otto has put his finger on part of Mr. Farages success; It's always easier to knock things down rather than build things up. He's also very lucky to have survived a light aircraft accident during our last general election. I expect you can Wiki him.

Personally I disagree with about 95% of the things he has to say and whilst I accept his views and opinions as sincere and honourable I suspect, in a previous time, many of the members of his party would have been only too happy to have been handing out the towels at Auschwitz.

[Kongo-Otto]

The question for me is, why is the UKIP so successfull in elections for the EU-Parliament and so unsuccessfull in elections for the House of Commons.
In Germany we see the EU-Parliament as an retirement home for quite unsuccessfull, recalcitrants or older Politicians. Not important enough to send someone important, so to say.
There is a say in Germany "Hast du einen Opa schick ihn nach Europa" which means "Do you have a Grandpa send him to Europes Parliament"

So in imho it would make more sense to have a stronghold in the House of commons rather then in the EU-Blatherer Shop.
What i also don't understand is this, when there is such an resentment against Germany and or the EU, why doesn't the UK leave the EU?
Nobody is forced to stay when he feels so highly uncomfortable.

And not to be misunderstood, i have nothing against beeing against the EU. I'm also against the EU, because i can't see the reason why the taxmoney of the german worker is wasted for the laziness, corruption and stupidity of other states.
I relly couldn't care less about Greece, Spain or Italy!
Their problems are homemade and there is no reason that the German worker has to eat the soup those jerks cooked!
But when you want to do something against the EU, you have to do it at your National Parliament and not in the EU-Parliament which is a toothless tiger.

Maybe i'm a bit harsh in my judgement but i'm a bavarian and i'm not really a fan of beeing part of Germany and its role in the EU to say at least.
IMHO Bavaria should gain independence again like it was until 1918 and restore monarchy and of course leave the German State immediately.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Kongo-Otto

The question for me is, why is the UKIP so successfull in elections for the EU-Parliament and so unsuccessfull in elections for the House of Commons.
In Germany we see the EU-Parliament as an retirement home for quite unsuccessfull, recalcitrants or older Politicians. Not important enough to send someone important, so to say.
There is a say in Germany "Hast du einen Opa schick ihn nach Europa" which means "Do you have a Grandpa send him to Europes Parliament"

So in imho it would make more sense to have a stronghold in the House of commons rather then in the EU-Blatherer Shop.
What i also don't understand is this, when there is such an resentment against Germany and or the EU, why doesn't the UK leave the EU?
Nobody is forced to stay when he feels so highly uncomfortable.

And not to be misunderstood, i have nothing against beeing against the EU. I'm also against the EU, because i can't see the reason why the taxmoney of the german worker is wasted for the laziness, corruption and stupidity of other states.
I relly couldn't care less about Greece, Spain or Italy!
Their problems are homemade and there is no reason that the German worker has to eat the soup those jerks cooked!
But when you want to do something against the EU, you have to do it at your National Parliament and not in the EU-Parliament which is a toothless tiger.

Maybe i'm a bit harsh in my judgement but i'm a bavarian and i'm not really a fan of beeing part of Germany and its role in the EU to say at least.
IMHO Bavaria should gain independence again like it was until 1918 and restore monarchy and of course leave the German State immediately.

...yeah, let's go back to the 15th century, shall we?

I love Bavaria, and as much as I think it's a prolific and active part of Germany, I doubt it would benefit from independence.

If there's one country that surely benefited from the Euro, that's Germany! Your politicians tell you that your tax money is needed to fix the other countries, but the truth is that it's an easier excuse for them than having to explain what the hell they actually do with all your tax money.

Have a look at this article for example.

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

...yeah, let's go back to the 15th century, shall we?

I love Bavaria, and as much as I think it's a prolific and active part of Germany, I doubt it would benefit from independence.

Well you prove that you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
So its good for the UK when they have a monarchy and of course it's a fall back to the 15th century when Bavaria should have a monarchy.
Ah ok must be some Italian kind of logics.

The only one who clearly would not benefit from an bavarian independence is Germany, maybe you should take a look who in germany has the economic power in Germany.

Stern really more and more i think you are a mere troll.

[arthursmedley]

Originally Posted by Kongo-Otto

The question for me is, why is the UKIP so successfull in elections for the EU-Parliament and so unsuccessfull in elections for the House of Commons.
In Germany we see the EU-Parliament as an retirement home for quite unsuccessfull, recalcitrants or older Politicians. Not important enough to send someone important, so to say.
There is a say in Germany "Hast du einen Opa schick ihn nach Europa" which means "Do you have a Grandpa send him to Europes Parliament"

So in imho it would make more sense to have a stronghold in the House of commons rather then in the EU-Blatherer Shop.
What i also don't understand is this, when there is such an resentment against Germany and or the EU, why doesn't the UK leave the EU?
Nobody is forced to stay when he feels so highly uncomfortable.

UKIP is only successful in the European parliament elections as they are the only national elections in the UK that are held under the system of proportional representation. You know that system well Kongo-Otto. It gave you Hans- Dietrich Genscher for most of the latter part of the twentieth century.

Elections to our parliament, where the real power lies, take place under the first-past-the-post system, like in the US. We tend to send our failed, unwanted and unloved politicians off to become EU commissioners.

I don't think the British people as a whole have any resentment against modern Germany or Germans. In fact I'd say we have quite a lot of respect as we're fairly aware that the EU experiment has been paid for in large part by Germany.
I'm afraid our national press is another story.
Also, our politicians have never really been honest and up front to the British people about what the EU is about. We have always been told it is merely an economic area whilst the rest of europe has accepted that it's foundations were always political as well as economic.

UKIP is the chicken of this dis-honesty coming home to roost.