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Your guess is as good as mine - presumably the cheaper rents. I have no idea what other incentive there is or was to move to Bradford. For as long as I've been alive (27 years) it hasn't been a nice place at all.
I think the rate of immigration to Bradford has slowed down though, and most Muslims there are second and third generation.
Just read of a new study by anti-corruption organization Transparency International where they analyzed the influence of lobbying groups on politicians in EU bodies and EU member countries. Germany did pretty bad, the UK pretty well. In numbers, just a few select ranks:
- Slovenia was the most transparent, 55 points
- EU Commission ranked second, 53 points
- UK, 44 points
- EU Parliament, 37 points
- Germany and Portugal, 23 points
- Cyprus and Hungary, 14 points (the worst result)
Just read of a new study by anti-corruption organization Transparency International where they analyzed the influence of lobbying groups on politicians in EU bodies and EU member countries. Germany did pretty bad, the UK pretty well. In numbers, just a few select ranks:
- Slovenia was the most transparent, 55 points
- EU Commission ranked second, 53 points
- UK, 44 points
- EU Parliament, 37 points
- Germany and Portugal, 23 points
- Cyprus and Hungary, 14 points (the worst result)
Oh, interesting. I would expect Germany to be more transparent than the UK. Cyprus and Hungary are not surprising.
Oh, interesting. I would expect Germany to be more transparent than the UK. Cyprus and Hungary are not surprising.
I am not surprised really, I know how Germany works inside. Companies have long infiltrated Berlin, sometimes literally wording new laws, for instance in healthcare, where big pharma is very active. Same goes for the auto industry regarding laws to do with the environment.
And then the German fraction in the EU tries to force those screwed national laws on the whole EU, or to prevent independent laws that are not to German industries' liking.
Germany may have a friendly face today, but it is botched behind its mask... To a certain extent it is also the US' Trojan horse in the EU. Everyone tends to think it is Britain because of their more obvious ties, but in reality it is Germany that serves as the entrance gate of US interests and manipulations to the EU.
Modern Germany is morally corrupt and has no backbone whatsoever.
40C with the thermometer in the sun , maybe, certainly not in the shadow. I've lived a few years in Germany and the hottest I ever felt was during the famous summer 1976 heatwave, where the mercury went up to 34 ° C for a few days (in Berlin and Schwaben).
Along the upper Rhine (say, between Freiburg and Mannheim) there are a couple of days with up to 37° almost every year, but 40° is very seldom anywhere in Germany, but who knows for how long...
Judging from climate data, 2003 was the last year temps officially climbed to 40° in Germany.
And two years before that, the record cold temp was measured, minus 46° in Bavaria :P
Germany may have a friendly face today, but it is botched behind its mask... To a certain extent it is also the US' Trojan horse in the EU. Everyone tends to think it is Britain because of their more obvious ties, but in reality it is Germany that serves as the entrance gate of US interests and manipulations to the EU.
Modern Germany is morally corrupt and has no backbone whatsoever.
That's ridiculous. Which intelligence service is part of the U.S. surveillance system? It's the British one. It is as worse than the NSA. And the government in the UK has not the slightest problem with it. The UK is a vassal state of the U.S. Everything that would make Europe stronger towards the U.S. is torpedoed by the British government.
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