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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 3h

The Welsh electorate voted for Brexit, and is now 'restlessly' flirting with Reform. Not sure how that ties in with declaring independence.

Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 1d

No it hasn't Nancy. Stop making things up.

The US still accounts for a quarter of the world's economy.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have any understanding of economics, do you?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converg...

Convergence (economics) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Smaller economies usually grow at a faster rate than established larger economies.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 1d

Spain's GDP is half the size of the UK's, while Poland's is 1/4. Not comparable compared to France and Germany.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 2d

They're not talking about England fans Maggie.

England fans are not banned from Germany either.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 2d

Where did I defend anyone? You appear to be a remarkably angry fellow.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 2d

Where did I say I wanted to exclude anyone? I'm quoting the definition of what an electorate is.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 2d

But the Welsh electorate isn't made up of EU citizens when it comes to referendums (or General elections). It only comprises those with the right to vote here.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know what she said. The OP doesn't link to anything.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 2d

They weren't allowed to vote in England either. Not quite sure what your point is here?

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 2d

Threatening the safety of people / property isn't against the law?

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 2d

The portion of the Welsh electorate born in England may have done so, that's the geography professor's hypothesis. However it's only a theory, nobody knows.

What we do know, is that the Welsh electorate preferred Leave in 2016. As to how that ties in with current Reform polling, again nobody knows

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 3d

There is no evidence for that.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 3d

That's correct on economy size, but viewing oil & gas exports in isolation doesn't really answer the point. The UK also exports an increasing amount of oil to the EU:

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Analysis reveals 80% of North Sea oil is exported

Exclusive: Rise in share of UK oil and gas that is exported challenges PM’s claim that fossil fuel extraction brings energy security

www.theguardian.com

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't that true for anywhere? I'd expect the police to detain me if I'm deemed a "threat". That's literally their job.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 3d

It was the Welsh electorate.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 4d

Do the EU have the power to strip an MEP of their pension entitlement?

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 5d

The EU will be paying his massive pension.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 5d

Its border system is, yes.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 5d

Thing is, it's not the airport's technology, it's the EU's. If it doesn't work, that says something about the EU. They've been working on this for years.

Hopefully it will all be functional by next Easter anyway.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 6d

I see what you're saying, but if you have 40 machines to do the legwork of registration, and 5 manned booths, it's going to be significantly more efficient for the machines to be functioning. The checking at the booth is supposed to be quick.

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 6d

The machines are there to take those details, that's how it's supposed to work. If they don't work, the process can be done by a human at the booth.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What is the EU's new border system EES - and how does it work? - BBC News

The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 6d

Just saw an article saying the Czechs went live with it today.

And.. it didn't work. The machines failed.

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Exclusive: Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

www.independent.co.uk

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Barney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @barneygreenway.bsky.social · 6d

The article says the Czechs screwed it up today. The machines failed to work. That's on them.

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