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Post by pl on Oct 16, 2023 21:09:12 GMT
I see there is not much interest in Rangers and Celtic joining the English Premier League. Some very hard questions need to be answered for that to happen. Question 1 - what happens if one of the two Glasgow teams ends up in a relegation spot? a) nothing - they stay up no matter how crap they are; b) they drop into the English Championship; or c) they get replaced by St. Mirren. Question 2 - how are Scotland's entrants in the European competitions to be determined? Answers on a postcard. Ermmm... same as the situation with Welsh clubs in the English pyramid now surely... Q1: They go into the Championship/League 1/League 2 etc Q2: Same as they are now, Scottish league and cup champions (and various runners up).
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 17, 2023 8:23:12 GMT
And the SDLP have a loose affiliation to Fianna Fail which is nevertheless stronger than any affiliation they have to the UK Labour Party. Yet Fianna Fail and APNI are both in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Because Fine Gael are in the EPP and not even the PES are daft enough to believe that Fianna Fail are social democrats.
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Post by rcronald on Oct 17, 2023 8:24:58 GMT
Yet Fianna Fail and APNI are both in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Because Fine Gael are in the EPP and not even the PES are daft enough to believe that Fianna Fail are social democrats. I genuinely have no idea why Fine Gael are in EPP.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 17, 2023 8:32:29 GMT
Because they are a right-of-centre party and clearly more economically conservative than FF.
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Post by timrollpickering on Oct 17, 2023 13:13:20 GMT
Because Fine Gael are in the EPP and not even the PES are daft enough to believe that Fianna Fail are social democrats. I genuinely have no idea why Fine Gael are in EPP. The legend is that back in 1973 their taxi was faster than Fianna Fáil's and so they got into what was then the Christian Democratic Group. Ideologically they're a fairly good fit. Fianna Fáil found itself unable to join the CDG/EPP and so spent the next 36 years allying with other centre right parties kept out of the EPP by domestic rivals, most notably the French Gaullists and later Forza Italia and the Polish PiS. Eventually they opted to join the Liberal group, helped by the Progressive Democrats' dissolution, largely because it was the biggest available grouping and offered a better route for any FFer with Eurojob ambitions.
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Post by rcronald on Oct 17, 2023 13:19:20 GMT
I genuinely have no idea why Fine Gael are in EPP. The legend is that back in 1973 their taxi was faster than Fianna Fáil's and so they got into what was then the Christian Democratic Group. Ideologically they're a fairly good fit. Fianna Fáil found itself unable to join the CDG/EPP and so spent the next 36 years allying with other centre right parties kept out of the EPP by domestic rivals, most notably the French Gaullists and later Forza Italia and the Polish PiS. Eventually they opted to join the Liberal group, helped by the Progressive Democrats' dissolution, largely because it was the biggest available grouping and offered a better route for any FFer with Eurojob ambitions. I wouldn’t call Leo Varadker a good ideological fit…
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 14, 2023 13:09:51 GMT
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Post by ntyuk1707 on Nov 14, 2023 15:37:48 GMT
The SNP spent 2.5 times the amount of Labour per vote.
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Post by jimboo2017 on Nov 15, 2023 1:35:33 GMT
The SNP spent 2.5 times the amount of Labour per vote. SSP spent £7 a vote for me,silly buggers
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