Lynne
I see the lack of joined up road (and planning?) at Carhaix Way is a story today on the local BBC TV news. Just to point out that this story first broke on here just over a year ago https://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/44632 My only surprise is that it has taken this long for the mainstream media to run with it. Click on this link and then scroll down ...
I think the lesson to be learnt from this sorry saga is that people (especially those, say, presently aged 40+) need to keep an eye on what is happening NOW re their FUTURE state pension age. I've picked on age 40 as I was 41 when the government of the time first raised my state pension age from 60 to 63 years and 10 months. It then raised it again to age 65 and three months when I was aged 58. ...
This link should take you to the new timetable https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south-west/exeter-area-timetable-changes-from-3-january-2017 and this to the petition concerning the new timetable. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/don-t-stop-the-2-bus-from-hopping-maintain-the-2-bus-service-at-three-buses-an-hour
Well, the person who told me about it lives in Dawlish and uses it. You buy it from the bus driver just as you would any other ticket Exeter dayrider plus!
Got told today about the Exeter Day rider Plus ticket which costs £5.50. Click on this link to see the area it covers (it includes Dawlish) https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/ZoneMaps/South%20West/SW_Exeter-mega-AND-plus-zone-extended-2016.pdf Thank you to the person who told me about it.
Can we agree that both NATO (formed late 1940s) and the embyronic EU (Common Market formed mid/late 1950s * between France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries) were created as a reaction to WWII and its aftermath. * but note that i n 1951, the Treaty of Paris was signed, creating the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). This was an international community based on ...
I guess they joined the EU for economic and political reasons. Some, but not all, ex iron curtain eastern european countries are also members of NATO - which I imagine is where the protection comes in. Although who knows what might happen once Trump takes over in the White House. But to get back to why some countries are pro the EU. The UK is made up of four countries. Two voted to ...
Perhaps those countries near the Russian border, mindful of their very recent post WWII history vis-a-vis Russia, wished to become members of the EU as much as the EU wished them to become member states? The British troops in Poland is a NATO initiative not an EU one.
@DEEDOODLE - i was pointing out the origins of the eu and why it came into existence. i did so in response to the initial posting about European nation states and WWII. Am I missing something here? Perhaps you could explain where it was that I made any any comment about how the EU functions. I don't know , but I have always strongly suspected that the continental countries have more ...
Isn't one of the reasons for the EU's existence being to prevent further wars in Europe?
