I have on business, travelled first class same price as an economy flight. Much quicker than flying to Paris.

This was about 20 years ago overall the experience was excellent except there was no food as the staff were on lightening strike and I was looking forward to my gourmet meal.

I must have muttered too loudly when they made the PA announcement "typical French". A French passenger overheard and pulled me up on it "why do you assume it's the French on strike they never said". He was correct I had guessed, well he asked the French ticket collector in French and then apologised to me in English (he didn't need to) "you were right".

At one point we were doing over 200mph and I looked at my glass of wine on the table and it wasn't even moving, compare that to commuting to London where you are doing 20mph and hanging on for dear life.

Anyway its marvellous apart from the trains breaking down in the tunnel and the French always being on strike.

Edited by Badger11 (18 Mar 2019 7.43am)

One more point

Let's tell the truth though. Who is more bigoted? Is it white middle class people or is it actually immigrants themselves who are bigoted?
Speak to most Eastern or Central Europeans - ask what they think of non-Christians and non whites.
Ask a Muslim or a Sikh what they think of the other religion. Ask a Muslim what they think of homosexuals.
Remember all of the Birmingham riots - blacks v Asians.
Then start blaming middle class English people. Yes, there is racism, there is bigotry but it is far more prevalent in cultures that are not white English.
I'm fed up with the apologists.

Red and Blue Army!

When we get the third vote, there should be a weighting according to how long you will have to live with the economic consequences.

So a 26 year old gets 40 weighting points and a 46 year old only 20.

Seems perfectly fair to me.

Although of course this isn't an economic decision for most people is it. People accept the financial hit on future generations so long as we get back our 'independence'. Strangely largely that isn't how the future generation sees it.

Got to say when mine were fairly young we had a great time in Disneyland Paris. There are loads of hotels just off the campus that run buses and are designed for families. Just don't lash out on staying at Disneyland itself. And be careful on the Metro when transferring, lots of thefts.

The train takes you straight to the complex - mine loved the character breakfasts - and Center Parcs is great too, haven't been to the new one at Woburn, but been to the rest at least a couple of times.

Nailed.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)