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washsaint is a mess.

Excellent result. They never really looked like scoring. Romeu MoTM.

JWP all over the place.

Good lad.

Looks like an own goal. Longy’s shot was going well wide.

And Gazzanigga was backing up a keeper i.e. Boruc who was pretty injury-prone by goalkeeping standards.

Take it easy on the dopey c**t.

Oh dear. The Slovakian government awarded state aid -or subsidies or assistance to JLR to build a new plant. The EU reviewed and approved this assistance given it was potentially in violation of its state aid rules. In other words, the decision to provide state aid was a sovereign decision by Slovakia. State aid wasn't provided to Slovakia. The EU didn't and doesn't provide state aid. It simply asseses whether member states behaviour is in line with EU rules. Fullstop. Seriously pal, you're out of your depth. Believe or not, I feel bad having to embarrass you each and every time like this.

So state aid wasn't provided to Slovakia (or Slovenia as you call it). You were incorrect to assert as such. Rather the Slovakian government awarded subsidies to JLR to build a new plant. It was an independent decision by a sovereign state and had nowt to do with the EU. And lets be clear there's no evidence that money from the European Structural and Investment Fund was invested in or around the plant in Nitra (ESIF is completely different from state aid). As mentioned before, dim right-wingers like yourself should welcome EU state aid rules which exist to ensure that such aid is well-targeted to addresses market failures and doesn’t distort competition. Poorer member states have higher state aid limits than richer member states because market failures tend to be larger in transitional economies like Slovakia. Still the use of state aid needs to be reviewed and approved by the European Commission in every case and there are limits to how far national governments can subsidise activity. This means that thanks to our friends in the EU and European Commission, governments can’t engage in pure zero-sum mercantilism and throw around unlimited amounts of cash to divert investment and activity. I wonder what the Slovakians and JLR would have got up to had state aid rules not been in place, right pal? ESIF sees money (chump change in the grand scheme of things) flow from richer member to poorer member states and regions - the quid pro quo is that poorer member states and regions must open their markets to competition which naturally benefits firms and producers from richer member states that are significantly more productive and competitive. Never mind that broad-based economic growth is ultimately more sustainable -whether within countries or across countries.

So you're unable to explain what you mean by "the state aid that has been provided to Slovenia (Slovakia)"? By your silence, I take it that you realise you've made a massive tit of yourself. Again. #completelyannihilated #gamesetandmatch

I can read too. I'm asking what EU state aid provided to Slovakia means? Who provided the state aid?

I can also read and use google pal. As JJ is struggling, perhaps you can help him and explain what EU state aid provided to Slovakia means?

EU state aid provided to Slovakia? You what? Its pretty clear you don't have a clue what you're talking about JJ. Happy to provide you a quote if you need some basic education on the subject pal This is going to get embarrassing...

Exactly Cabbage Face. See page 70 of the latest Annual Report for a breakdown of retail sales by region. Natural market place? Loyalty? What kind of sentimental, weak-chinned gibberish is Les talking about? Les is crashing out again.

I’ve not overlooked anything Les. I simply said that there’s more to location decisions than labour costs. If anything, you’re arguing with yourself and correcting/qualifying your original simplistic post. Good lad. Alas you’re missing large parts of Jihadi John’s argument Les. He’s a bit more conspiratorial see - he thinks this is a massive ruse by a European Commission bent on politicising state aid rules, interpreting them as it sees fit to screw the UK. Of course he’s also sick in the head.

Low paid workforce Les? Location decisions and cost competiveness are a bit more complicated than paying the workforce peanuts pal.

??? The author is anonymous but I bet he or she is a SpAd.

Les, happy to wager the author is a SpAd -that is a political appointee, not a permanent, nonpolitical 'civil servant'. You are a bit naive in how the world works, aren't you pal?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-to-be-delayed-beyond-march-29-cabinet-ministers-reveal-a4036326.html Don't worry Steve Baker's plan is going to save the day.

I think users should set up their own patreon accounts - I'd definitely pay for cabbage face's ITK titbits. I also hear he's the next Elton John.

Caught out for what Les - for laughing at the preening blowhard Steve Baker's claims that he's going to take a tougher line with Brussels and rescue negotiations for the country Baker and the ERG have had two years to come up with a plan. This was the time to influence negotiations and explain how to reconcile its red lines, the Irish border question and the promises of the referendum campaign. Yet there has been nothing, nada, ne rien. The ERG was embarrassingly forced to shelve it’s own alternative plan to Chequers when it discovered its own members couldn't agree among themselves. It spluttered vaguely about max facs and technology only for HMRC to point out that its costs would dwarf the UK's annual contribution to the EU while doing nothing to obviate the need for regulatory checks. Baker boasted about having the numbers to trigger a confidence vote -only to get his sums badly wrong. And when the ERG did finally scrape together the numbers, it lost the vote and surrendered its most potent weapon against May yet still found a way to have a temper tantrum. Despite all this, Baker and his merry band of fantasists believe they're going to go all Churchillian and rescue negotiations for the country at the eleventh hour Les you may have had your pants pulled down but the rest of us aren't so credulous.

What’s your point re. JLR, JJ? Think this one over pal.

That’s precisely the point Les Stevie says that he’s very clear what should be done and how to rescue the negotiations for the country, the government, the Conservative party and indeed the EU. Real fighting talk though obviously he can’t disclose his magic solution just yet I know you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed Les but at one point, even you, will come to accept that your little band of coffin-dodging misfits is led by some proper cretins.

Morning Les. I don’t follow your question. Then again I don’t think you do either pal. Just pointing out that your boy soldier Stevie is planning -some would say grandstanding- again. This was the mastermind behind the botched the leadership coup among other hopelessly amateurish ERG stunts. By now, you’d think he’d know that actions speak louder than words.

Define what you mean by an EU army.