Britain is not the EU's equal in strength, and boy, does it show

Another lazy link.

Read it properly, you jerk.

It’s pro-EU, calling for a change of policy to prevent the ECB and other institutions weakening of union rights and living standards caused by the austerity policies imposed in the UK.

This can only be done on a EU-wide basis.

Will you never stop posting these pro-EU links?

I agree with every word of it.

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by  sceptical guy.

Ohhhh!!!!

so which are you???Aristea Koukiadaki, the Senior Lecturer at Manchester University? or Isabel Tavora of Manchester Uni? Or are you Miguel Martinez Lucio, a Professor (no less) at Manchester Uni??

I am very impressed!! A man who started as a building labourer who went to Ruskin College (you should be rightly proud of having gone to this trade union-founded college), talent-spotted and recruited by Merton College, the University of Oxford, and proceeding to write a path-breaking defence of the Nazi killer of Jo Cox which would have won you a first class mark at Ruskin – if it had been submitted to Ruskin. *literally amazed at that botched-up piece of argument, from which you ran like hell when its idiocies were pointed out..

You are a busy man, combining this type of research with abuse of jamie and everyone else at JC, hanging around the JC chatrooms all day and night, consumed with an incoherent hatred of anything that moved sometimes.

Well, as you’re such a prestigious academic, could you please spell out clearly and without abuse (I know the latter is probably impossible for you, Professor Smashface) the puzzle I have with your article?

The article, and so you your good self, is very aware of the European Charter of Social Rights, and the European Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the Worker. These are the building bricks of a social Europe.

They, and your good self, argue (rightly) that the policies of UK austerity now being applied by the ECB etc directly threaten these building blocks.

They (and your good self, as you are one of them) don’t attack the EU. They attack the policies of the ECB, appeal to the IMF for its research, and argue that “the measures contravene the right to collective bargaining, as recognised by the ILO Conventions, the European Convention of Human Rights, the European Social Charter but also the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU itself”.

So you’ve written a pro-EU document, Professor, and are using it to attack the EU.

Oh, dear. This doesn’t go against my question to master Rude Boy one iota. Or if it does, Professor, you can explain – clearly and without abuse, as a professor can.

Or your real name isn’t Walter Bloody Mitty by any chance???

No, surely not! Surely not!!! That would turn you into a liar and a buffoon, wouldn’t it?

Seriously, are you drunk?

You contributed to the research??

Or you contributed by posting this link to a blog??

It’s a pro-EU article, Gerry, attacking the policies of EU monetary institutions as undermining the EU’s fundamental principles. These policies have to be opposed on a EU-wide basis.It’s absolutely right in its analysis.

Read it, Professor Mitty – read it soberly – and if you don’t see that it’s pro-EU. then you’re really not up to informed debate, which I am strongly suspecting.

Waiting for Master Rudeboy to respond to my clarification, made at his request, because a serious response from this character is ruled out.

One very serious point has been made =- by Ms M, on the Treaty of Lisbon – and to deal with this I’m ignoring the abuse of our charlatan professor as long as nothing serious is said by him – and it so rarely is said.