EU;s new "space egg" building

Oh a Brexiter rambling... So unusual (not).

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I know Berlaymont is crumbling but wouldn't the obscene amounts of money have been better spent patching it up rather than being wasted on this ego trip? What with youth unemployment i Greece being 50% and all thanks to their policies over the Euro?

Tell me, Remoaner, what exactly DO you believe in vis a vis the EU? We all know what is wrong with it but what is the positive case? What does it actually do for the people of Europe?

Anything to say on that matter?

This has nothing to do with the Berleymont. This was commissioned to hold inter-government meetings when the EU was enlarged. Chirac and Blair signed off on the project. It was that long ago.


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Fair enough. Still a huge waste of money though, since the EU won't even be in existence in its current bloated form in what, five years time? Ten at best.

They'd have been better off hiring conference rooms at the local Sheraton every time they need to talk about whatever nonsense they feel the need to talk about.

But of course that is beneath the great panjandums of the Eurocracy. Surprised they didn't recreate the Palace of Versailles. Sigh.

(I believe it is spelt Berlaymont, though?)

I didn't check the spelling. It was created to save money. EU meetings used to travel round. Each country got to be top dog for 6 months at a time and host all the meetings. But of course each country tried to outdo the others in extravagance. So the French would hold meetings at the real Versailles or in Martinique. Despite the fact that the Locarno Suite at the Foreign Office is sumptuous and the Old India Office was designed to receive two Maharajahs simultaneously, British Ministers visited more or less the entire National Trust estate.


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you don't expect them to book a Hotel Ibis to hold their meetings in do you ?

As the EU collapses around its ears what do you think its hated and despised leadership are up to? Yep, building a new headquarters building! You couldn't make it up.

http://www.euronews.com/2016/12/08/meet-the-space-egg-the-eu-s-new-321-million-headquarters

There is an iron rule in the stock market. Whenever a company builds a big, f**k off HQ building it has taken its eye of the business and lost touch with reality.

Sell the stock.

But anyone who still holds shares in the EU (let alone considers buying into it) needs their head examining anyway.

We're also no longer gonna be in the European Space agency, so looks like no more British people like Major Tom peak getting sent into space.

We're also no longer gonna be in the European Space agency, so looks like no more British people like Major Tom peak getting sent into space.

With our Brexit savings, we can build 1.3 of our own space eggs every week!







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Who do you think paid for it in the first place?

The poor old British taxpayer is the second largest contributor to EU funds.

Still, as you say, at least we won't be on the hook for future vanity projects like this.

Factual correction: our ESA membership will be RETAINED as ESA is independent of the European union. We also just gave ESA 2bn more a year.


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Maybe, but it's still a European organisation and Europe now hates Britain because most ESA members are EU countries. How could we ever trust them to take British astronauts into space? They might leave them up there in spite.

I doubt any British astronaut will ever go into space again. The yanks no longer do manned space missions and we can't trust the Europeans to bring our spacemen back!

Maybe, but it's still a European organisation and Europe now hates Britain because most ESA members are EU countries. How could we ever trust them to take British astronauts into space? They might leave them up there in spite.

I doubt any British astronaut will ever go into space again. The yanks no longer do manned space missions and we can't trust the Europeans to bring our spacemen back!

As the EU collapses around its ears what do you think its hated and despised leadership are up to? Yep, building a new headquarters building! You couldn't make it up.

http://www.euronews.com/2016/12/08/meet-the-space-egg-the-eu-s-new-321-million-headquarters

There is an iron rule in the stock market. Whenever a company builds a big, f**k off HQ building it has taken its eye of the business and lost touch with reality.

Sell the stock.

But anyone who still holds shares in the EU (let alone considers buying into it) needs their head examining anyway.