Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "U.K.'s May Hears Hard Truths as EU Preps for Brexit" video.

Budgetary cuts. The losers are the beneficiaries of the cohesion fund. In short, Eastern Europe. Britain betrayed them after WW2, so they're sort of used to it. Ironically, it means even more Eastern Europeans heading west and that, my friend, spells hard Brexit.
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+farmerned6 Plans are drawn up for all manner of eventualities, but the crux of the matter is that Operation Unthinkable wasn't executed and it wasn't for Stalin holding back. Churchill signed the Yalta agreement, didn't he, giving Stalin carte blanche to subdue Eastern Europe. Not only that, Churchill thought it hunky-dory that the USSR annexed the Baltic States in contravention of the Atlantic Charter, adopting a fanciful stance that the Balts joined willingly. One betrayal after another.
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+James Barry Ooh, you're resorting to personal insults and juvenile ones at that. Try to hold it together, old sport. I already explained where and how the betrayal happened. You couldn't refute that, so you drag the honour of fallen soldiers into it. If you knew your history, you would've made a case that Churchill's actions where dictated by political expedience. Expedient or not, there's a debt to be repaid. You can have your Brexit as hard as you want. I won't bear the consequences.
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+farmerned6 But I am putting the blame where it lies. I'm referring to the Yalta Conference and Churchill's pro-USSR interpretation of the Atlantic Charter.
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+James Berry I'm sorry, I don't associate name-calling with wit. I associate it with juveniles. I've never had Horlicks, old sport. Funny that you'd boast about military service -- for us it's rule rather than exception. I wouldn't call getting shot at and being a pall-bearer for a fallen comrade a sheltered life. I'm racking my brain, but I can't think of anything the Brits ever did for us, except paying lip service and feigning indignation in 1939-40. We pulled our chestnuts out of the fire ourselves and a quite a fire it was, too. Did I misspell Churchill's name? Sure, FDR is co-responsible for Western Betrayal, but that doesn't get Churchill off the hook. And why are you peddling your Brexit propaganda? Are you still trying to convince yourself that you didn't foul up? Just get on with it already.
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+James Berry Hmmm, your fragile ego doesn't allow for criticism unless it's accompanied by a comprehensive study of Britain's influence on world history. You're eager to toot your own horn, but you pout if I don't join in. Begging for acceptance, eh, old fruit (say, wear girls' blouses much)? Conversely, I don't need your confirmation in matters historical. You've exhibited deficient knowledge of British wartime and post-war history, so you're the last person I'd ask when the topic shifts abroad. I'm not conducting a comprehensive study on Churchill's legacy either, so rest assured, I'm not knocking your hero off his pedestal. But your inability to accept criticism against him once again betrays your insecurity. Just so you know, Britain's democratic credentials have taken a hard knock after the mobocracy that carried Brexit, the hereditary peers meddling with its execution and the archaic electoral system that lies at the root of it all. Comparative studies, too, show you've fallen behind. There's no market for Horlicks here, just like there's none for Marmite. Don't you know you Little Englanders are a laughingstock in matters culinary?
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+James Berry It goes without saying that London attracts world-class restaurateurs. La Gavroche? Adorning yourself with borrowed plumes, old fruit? Michelin-starred restaurants aside -- which major capital doesn't have 'em -- it speaks volumes that the national dish of England is Chicken Tikka Massala. A tacit admission that even locals reject British dishes in favour of foreign ones. Keep fishing with your sign-offs.
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+James Berry God you're pretentious. Can your simple mind not work out that La Gavroche and Roux spell French cuisine, the practical antidote to British cuisine? And don't you worry, I've enjoyed the fruits of my wife's family's involvement in the Asian hospitality industry. Am I making it up that Churchill endured scathing criticism in British Parliament upon his return from Yalta, barely securing the vote of confidence that he sought, knowing that controversy would ensue? Still, several MPs resigned in disgust. Churchill understood the gravity of his actions. You don't.
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+James Berry Still waxing lyrical about French cuisine, old fruit? With good tutelage, why indeed can't Britons learn to cook. There must be an unlearning curve, however. Finally, at long last, you've figured out that a good dose of Realpolitik went into Churchill's betrayal of Eastern Europe. But I sort of gave it away, didn't I, by referring to political expediencies earlier. What matters is that Great Britain incurred a debt and it's only cricket to pay one's debts. But maybe you're right -- maybe Churchill shouldn't have been at the negotiation table in Yalta.
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+James Berry Ah, your latest diversion is Italian cuisine. You're still skirting the issue, the horrors of British cuisine, old fruit. So you're retroactively able to pick up a book and confirm what I wrote earlier. With your newly-discovered skill, you might want to read the transcripts of the debate in parliament of February 27, 1945. I know your self-importance knows no bounds, but you might want to spice up your opinion pieces with facts. Bombastic opinions alone don't cut the mustard. If you weren't so provincial, you'd know cricket isn't the world-wide hit you think it is. Remember the little discussion we had about Horlicks? And no, the Internet isn't a British invention. Your list of gaffes is getting longer and longer.
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+James Berry Don't flatter yourself -- I'm not exactly on tenterhooks as to what you're going to post next. It's a bit too easy to refute your arguments -- if there are any to begin with. We're talking cuisine. Since the meaning eludes you, here's the definition: cuisine |kwɪˈziːn| noun [mass noun] a style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment: much Venetian cuisine is based on seafood. If Britons are increasingly abandoning British cuisine in favour of foreign cuisine, as you suggest, I can only applaud their wisdom. But I fear this positive development will be reversed when imports become more pricey after Brexit. I had French tuition forced on me, just like German, Latin and Greek. Monolingualism isn't a choice for us. Again, you pride yourself with a known weakness of Britain. You fell for it. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web (while working for CERN -- another no-go area for British scientists after a hard Brexit). Yes, neophytes equate the Web with the Internet, but it's just one Internet application among many. You really should explore email, instant messaging and media streaming as well. I could make the observation that some of my countrymen are key contributors to the technology behind the Internet -- household names even -- but our intellectual 'cuisine' frowns on braggadocio...
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