Listed below are comments made by padav01 between Friday, 3rd April 2009 and Wednesday, 6th May 2009.
"a statistic that was unthinkable when the FA Cup was won against these same opponents in 2005"
@Freeborn-John: (Padav01)If you politicise the EU you will simply create political tensions between nations that would push the EU towards break-up. This is because there is no pan-European solidarity (i.e. of a strength comparable to national identity) sufficient to hold the EU together on politically contentious issues. No pan-European election can change that basic political reality on the ground. To illustrate, do you believe that British taxpayers would meekly accept to pay more to the EU budget simply because voters in 26 other countries would overwhelmingly vote in favour of a candidate who proposed cancelling the "British rebate"? I have reason to believe that even the EU Commission would be against your proposal on the grounds that they prioritise their own survival ahead of even more federal powers.
@karolina001: Which kind of challenges you are talking about? The ones created, manipulated and speculated upon by the pro-EU puppets to consolodate power and disregard people? Who created the financial and economic crisis? was it the EUsceptics, or was it the pro-EU payroll puppets? Who is engaged in war? is it EU sceptics or pro-EU puppets? EU is ran by charlatans, and is yet another gost international institution, like many other gost international institutions that already exists today. pro-EU payrolls should see first in the mirror, they might discover the truth.
@Freeborn-John: Other federalists (padav01) pretend that globalisation can somehow be bottle-up at the continental level such that it would only render nation-states obsolete and not the EU.
@WhiteEnglishProud: (padav01)Are you asking where the line between what the E.U layer of governance is responsible for and what National Governments are responsible for should be drawn?
@SCLSCL: The President of the Council idea is an awful one, hope it never happens. I doubt my idea would ever come to fruition but its not a bad one surely! It certainly would address the current problem without erecting this ridiculous figurehead that would most likely be undermined on a regular basis by Member States with conflicting views
@John_from_Hendon" Just consider what a trip by the 'President' of Europe to the USA could be like. Congress and the individual States offering differing views on almost everything. The Californians striving for energy efficient vehicles and the rust belt wanting to shift their heavy inefficient iron, for example. The battles between conservation minded rural state administrations and the exploiters of the forests. Oil and Alaska too! The conflicts between the interests of the prairie state farm belt and world trade tariff barriers. I think if the visit were the other way it would be quite reasonable to call the situation 'Usbabble'."
"I am not disagreeing with your basic analysis of the EU, constituted in its current form, as an entity exhibiting "undemocratic, unaccountable, unresponsive" features."
@ikamaskeip: Such an entity is undemocratic, unaccountable and I contend is wholly unacceptable to the UK/England no matter what form it purports to be taking at some future, unspecified, unattainable date.