Comments by "Henry Law" (@henrybn14ar) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. The £ is a cause of the UK's chronic regional economic imbalance. Wealth is sucked out of the regions through the tax and financial systems. A means of recycling that wealth to the periphery is needed, but there isn't one. That is a prime cause of the stress which now threatens the unity of the UK.
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  2. I doubt if there would be many tears shed in Hungary. I wish the EU would throw us (Sweden) out.
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  3. This needs to be put in context. Turkey has enjoyed a bad relationship with Europe for the past 800 years. The first thing that they need to do is acknowledge responsibility for the genocides of 1915 and 1923. 3 million were killed.
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  4. It is surprising that it hasn't gone bad long ago. VAT and import tariffs are a deadly combination guaranteed to hammer any economy. The entire notion of export-led growth is based on the misguided and long discredited seventeenth century economic theory known as Mercantilism. An undervalued currency has forced Germans to work a day a week for nothing. They have been shafted for years. 😊
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  5.  @sarantis1995  A single currency across a large and diverse region is a recipe for chronic trouble.
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  6.  @Juho221  Absolutely. The single currency makes it impossible to remedy the huge and chronic regional economic imbalances in the three countries you mention. This leads to excessive internal migration, rural depopulation, urban slums, social disruption etc. The single currencies suck wealth from the periphery to the core. The Euro is doing the same thing.
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  7. I will believe Ukraine isn't Nazi when the statue of the country's national hero, Chmielnitsky, is removed from its place of honour in the middle of Kiev.
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  8. Fight to the last Ukrainian.
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  9. Dunning Kruger Channel. They must be getting a lot of dosh from somewhere.
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  10.  @WhiteOwlet  Has Russia been threatening Finland lately?
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  11. Zelensky has thrown away support with his attack on the Kiev Lavra monks. It would be astonishing if a move to bring Serbia into the EU did not stir up large scale opposition. Hungary has still got its eye on the bit of Ukraine that Stalin took from them. This sounds like wishful thinking.
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  12. Diversity is pure gain. Who wants to buy their stuff?
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  13. 28 people go to a restaurant and try to pick a menu that they will all be able to eat. They end up with steamed Chinese cabbage. That happened to me one with a group of people.
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  14. I would not be surprised if the Russians have offered to return to Hungary those parts of Ukraine taken by Stalin.
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  15. A neighbour of mine in Gothenburg was forced out of the flat he owned in Pristina. There is something nasty going on that we are not being told. It doesn't sound as if these peace keeping forces. The Albanian man who took the stolen property had a bad conscience and gave him a bit of money to buy somewhere in Serbia. The Kosovo government has been stealing churches that are hundreds of years old and the Serbians cannot get in. Kosovo was Serbian for 1500 years.
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  16. Thomas the Tank and Friends. Brighton could also send its 25 Pannier Tanks. But they might just as well send them to Booth's Metals, Doncaster.
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  17. They might have upset Him by raiding the Kiev lavra.
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  18. They cannot even produce the names properly. They should rename TLDR the "Dunning Kruger Channel".
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  19. Tell that to people and businesses struggling with the fuel bills.
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  20.  @Xamufam  Sweden has vast taxes on business. There is no VAT registration threshold. Gross labour costs to employers are 230% of the net purchasing power of workers' wages. That is a massive burden on business.
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  21. Funny about the ads. I always make a mental note to avoid what is advertised.
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  22. Germany should get out of the Euro and have its own currency, scrap VAT, raise the tax free earnings allowance, and introduce a national land value tax. That would fix the problem as much as it can be fixed.
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  23. People in Serbia are still dying from the NATO bombs. Great success in Afghanistan. NATO is the took of the US military/industrial complex. Its purpose ended in 1992.
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  24. Japan and Sweden also have demographic problems. Sweden has "solved" it. Abortion is a cause in both cases. Behind Abortion are often economic causes eg shortage or high price of housing and lack of work opportunities.
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  25. If they can't get the names right it means that they are unreliable. Their English isn't great either.
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  26. What exactly is right wing populism?
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  27. Those reasons PROVE that the Russians did it, as they make it harder to convince people that they did. After all they blew up their own pipelines so that they would not be able to sell their gas.
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  28. After poking a bear for 30 years it is not so surprising it gets a sore head.
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  29. A band of neutral countries from the Arctic to the Black Sea would have prevented the current hostilities. This should have been the policy post 1990. Funny thing with all the guns in the country that Switzerland doesn't have regular school shootings.
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  30. TLDR doesn't know the difference between sanctions, a blockade and a boycott. Slava Serbia. Why should they support the west? What good would it do the Serbians to join the EU?
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  31. "Far Right"??? Jackbooted, black shirted and ready to arrest opponents for thought crimes?
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  32.  @frbo9002  Vi bör strunta i EU överhuvudtaget.
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  33. At least Erdoğan is doing Sweden a favour.
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  34. The EU trade policies are a structure of self imposed sanctions. They are based on the Autarky principle.
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  35. My neighbours are Serbians who were winkled out of Kosovo. One was evicted from his flat in Pristina. It is still going on. They won't stop until the Serbians have been ethnically cleansed. They will not trust the Kosovo government to keep to an agreement, based on bitter experience. Serbians aren't interested in the EU.
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  36. I hope not. Sweden is highly vulnerable to hacking attacks due to over reliance on networked IT systems. We should not be stirring up hostility with Russia. Then there is the matter of money. The kitty is empty. Membership of NATO should be a constitutional or referendum issue.
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  37. Switzerland?
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  38. Protection punishes the people in the countries who protect their industries.
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  39. "Sanctions" is a false description. It was western countries doing what they are best at - self harm.
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  40. Privilege to be fleeced. Thanks for nothing, Brussels. I hope we 🇸🇪 are out soon too.
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  41. This would be a non issue if it were not for the idiotic EU Protected Single Market. There would be little interest in joining.
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  42. A European federation would work only with more devolution, and abolition of sales taxes, tariffs and dismantling of the Euro.
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  43.  @verttikoo2052  Hitler was bankrolled by the German industrial giants who have not gone away but been joined by their French, German and Dutch counterparts who make sure that the EU acts in their interests.
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  44. 60 years of stupidity and no sign of an end to it.
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  45. Good analysis but the EU cannot reform.
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  46. To judge by the comments the answer seems to be yes, but understandable. The EU trade and economic policies have trashed the economies of the entire belt along the eastern borders of the EU, breaking ancient trading relationships. Cities like Daugavpils have become industrial wastelands. The huge RVR rolling stock factory in Riga lost much of its business. The populations of the Baltic countries has fallen since the Soviet break up; they were formerly the most prosperous regions of the USSR. Interfering in church affairs is religious persecution. These countries have not handled their Russians well.
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  47. TLDR have entirely ignored how this conflict has developed.
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  48.  @andrewpaulhart  The EU had demanded that Ukraine breaks existing agreements with the former Soviet countries in exchange for a trade agreement. The Single Market has to be protected. Its the Northern Ireland problem.
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  49. Armchair military analysts. It looks futile to me. The two sides need to stop the killing and start talking. The Ukrainians need to accept that they will have to give up some territory instead of continuing with the bloodletting.
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  50.  @jonathanbowers8964  Trade is based on geography and the Britain is an island and the Ireland is another island even further from mainland Europe. I don't know what you mean by "trading partner", but trade takes place between people and companies, and having to ship goods over the sea adds to the costs of logistics This will always put suppliers in the UK at a disadvantage compared to those in Germany. That is one reason why it never made sense for the UK to join the EU. It doesn't help that the EU cripples its own economies with the Eurotax and import tariffs. Did you know that these policies were advocated in Mein Kampf and put into effect by Goering in 1934? The purpose of an economy is not to make stuff and flog it to foreigners.
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