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I will be amazed if we reciprocate and charge for EU-members to enter the UK. But as you've rightly clarified: this is for entry to the EU for holidays, short trips, not for settling and working.

They are welcome to charge us - the mask has truly slipped with the supranational government over there. They do love imposing red tape and needless bureaucracy to interfere and justify their existence. Again, putting up barriers and making it harder to spend money in their fortress.

We must do our best to remain open and welcoming to those that wish to visit.

The point is that you are firing at the wrong target.

If what you say is true, and I make no comment on that as I haven't checked it, then the buck stops with the Council and the Parliament. It is them who delegate the authority. The Commission cannot act on it's own initiative unless it has been given the responsibility to do so.

The EU is a unique organisation which must have been incredibly difficult to find a way to manage successfully. It obviously isn't perfect but very few things are. The real question is not to identify it's weaknesses and then try to improve them because that's obviously something that always needs to be done. The question is whether we are all better within the EU, warts and all, or outside it.

My answer is just different to yours.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Wow this has to be some sort of a record. Politicians memoirs are normally heavily publicised in a newspaper come out and hang around at the bottom of the best sellers list for a few months before heading for the bargain bucket.

However John Bercow never a man to stick with tradition has a new angle skip the bestsellers and go straight for the bucket.

""It came out only three weeks ago, but ex-Speaker John Bercow's memoir, Unspeakable, has slumped to No. 3,565 on Kindle's best-seller list despite aggressive publicity by the diminuitive one.""

It would appear that John's Remainer friends have deserted him such a pity, still there's that cushy EU job to look forward to? Or have they forgotten about him as well.

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Rather proves the point. If it weren’t for libraries buying it he’d have made no sales at all.

You will probably have to wait in line I hear it's a rip roaring page turner or maybe not.

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On the topic of political memoirs a publisher cynically explained how they work.

Said politician will have been involved in some controversies over the years assuming they were in government they have not told their version of events.

This is all the papers are interested in and will pay hundreds of thousands depending on the politician.

So the publisher sells the juicy extracts to the Daily Mail etc which is how they make their money. If anyone actually buys the book this is gravy for the publisher as they fully expect it to be in the bargain bucket fairly shortly.

So if no newspaper wants to buy the extracts then the publisher is not interested in publishing the book and I have heard of a number of politicians who this happened to.

I don't know if Bercow's serialised his book in one of the papers if he didn't I doubt he's made much money from it.

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