<html><body><span style="font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>And we used to point and laugh at the likes of them, but these days they attract a lot more people than they should due to centre-right people getting annoyed with their previously non-corrupt (no really, no really) favourites turning out to have been feathering their nests all along, and making the small jump to the far right rather than a big jump to the left.</div>
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<div>But I have to take issue with Reinier's sentence below, "many of us presumably are Euro-critic as well". Sorry, but no. I couldn't care less about individual nations and their parochial goals. Call me naive but the closer we all get as Europeans, and the more we accept our similarities rather than play up our differences, the further we get from 1939.</div>
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<div >-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] WARNING<BR>From: Andrew Norton <andrew.norton@pirate-party.us><BR>Date: Thu, June 04, 2009 10:16 pm<BR>To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk<BR><pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net><BR><BR>There is a similar feeling going on in the UK today, with the British<BR>National Party (BNP).<BR><BR>Their slogans are 'real people... not frigging politicians' and 'British<BR>jobs for British people'<BR><BR>C'est la vie.<BR><BR>Andrew<BR><BR><BR>Reinier Bakels wrote:<BR><snip> While many of us presumably are Euro-critic as well</snip></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>