From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:57:52 +0000
Subject: Re: euroland/Chas the new Kropotkin?/plastic life



> >Greetings from Euroland.
> 
> UK is not in euroland. not yet.

Our Tone made a big speech yesterday - we're as good as in.

 That is maybe something you could consider
> yourselves lucky with. On the other hand you live in the UK... Where new
> labour is more conservative than the tories. Where the prince of whales ahs
> to stand up against the
> plant-gene-manipulating-blair-supported-mass-food-industry.

I have high hopes for the lad. He's clearly non-sexist  - look at the 
old boot he prefers to the late princess of hearts - and likes small 
communities. Another 20 years and we could have another Kropotkin.

> Ofcourse, where are things better ?
> 
> Recent polls in Flanders show that a majority has low to very high racist
> tendencies. The highest flemish government offical had a solution : the
> obligation for all those "foreigners" to learn dutch. Perfectly fitting in
> the idea that when you are a xenophobe it's always the fault of the other
> being different.
> 

Wait for our Stephen Lawrence report today. I bet our racists can 
beat your racists.

By the way, elsewhere BJCallaghan is dissing plastic proto-plant 
forms. Wasn't Plastic Bertrand a Belgian life form from the early 
80s???? 
_as