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Good question. Maybe they didn't want to go completely overboard and at least use some international terminology? An unknown, young French player took the morning lead btw. Really like when that happens..

Or as the French call it: Open de France

Absolutey. In my opinion this kind of racism and xenophobia is a much, much bigger threat in GB than immigration is. Funny thing is that Farage said before the election that if Remain would win with less than 52%, that it won't mean Brexit is off the table because the margins are too small. Now he won himself with less than 52%....

Mostly if not entirely Because they get double points for the 2016 rankings in this tournament. Besides that, high ranked PGA players can also play in the Euro events if they choose to (like Patrick Reed did). It's their choice to do so or not. In this instance I understand they don't because of the WGC tournament ofcourse.

I'm surprised Lowry isn't inside the straight qualifiers yet, but yea: he should absolutely have a wild card then. Anyway a lot can change in the next few weeks with a WGC, The Open and Open de France (double points) coming up. Shortly after that the PGA Championship also.

I understand that; point is that it has little to do with EU. Those refugees will still be at British borders, and people who were elected (or appointed by the elected) will still decide to let a certain amount in. A lot of people seem to think this is the end of immigration in GB. Believe me, they couldn't be further from the truth.

True, I'm not happy with every descion here as well. But that's not the point. Some people try to draw the picture that a big evil government somewhere far away is ramming laws trough your troat and there's nothing you can do about it. That's simply not true, GB had a lot of influence with a lot of representatives voted by the British people. If people think now that they don't have to deal with refugees anymore it's a gros misrepresenting of facts; the people they voted for decided in best interest about the dealing of the refugees. Without being in the EU, that problem doesn't go away; so still people they voted for will decided to let a certain amount of people in. And this time they can't ask Belgium, Austria, Netherlands etc. for help if the numbers are going to be too high.

On which they voted themselves in elections. Seriously, do you know anything about the EU political structure?

The country's representatives regarding this subject from the EU Parliament. And before you ask, please know that in every country there were elections to chose the ones who get a seat in the EU Parliament, so also in GB It basically is like every other descision made by government. Only Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungaria and Romania voted against it. Which is quite ironical in my opinion.

As I said a few times before: GB wasn't dictated. They had a vote in it and they voted in favour. Mostly because of their own benefit, because it made it easier for them to control to wave of refugees heading for GB. This way it was more fairly devided. One could easily argue that the rest of EU is helping GB big time dealing with the refugees.

I believe you might be wrong in that assumption. A lot of those warnings were laughed away. In my opinion at least a lot of people underestimated it. You really believe that without EU there won't be coming refugees to the UK? Mostly from the country they are bombing themselves by the way, talking about taking responsibility. A lot of refugees want to go to Germany or England. Because of the EU refugees were also taken to other countries instead. It's quite mindblowing to me that people seem to overlook that.

A direct result is the interest of the state's loans going up. Together with the value of the Pound going down it means UK loses more money every second compared to a week ago. The Chancellor of the Exchequer just said the country will be poorer because of the Brexit vote: I think a lot of people didn't realise last week that things like this would be the costs of their descicion. A certain group of people laughed away every warning and put it aside as something like 'you are just trying to scare me, it's noncence'. Well, it's not noncence, it's basic economics and common sence. I wouldn't be surprised that if they would do a second referendum next week, the result will be the other way around. Which in fact proves the downside of referenda in the first place, but that's a different discussion.

You misunderstood me. The actual facts don't seem to matter much when people are using retorics like the ones I gave you as an example. A lot of lies have been told, and when you confront people with the facts they ignore them. In other words, the facts don't matter for them, their opinion is set. the refugees, again, GB had a vote and they voted in favour. Besides that it helps to control the big wave, also for GB. You see it as refugees forced on GB, while in fact it's taking away refugees from GB and place them in coutries like Austria, Czech and Belgium. ps latest news is that the credit rating of GB is down by two steps in once to AA.

And Great Britain had a vote in that..... and they voted in favour. The only ones voting against it were a few Eastern European countries. I know, the irony....

Great Britain had their independence and would always have it. And what local control are you talking about exactly? You do know that +90% of the laws in Great Britain are their own, and that the <10% of the laws coming from EU had A. little to do with the man on the street, B. Great Britain had a vote in those laws to begin with and C. after this Brexit those <10% probably won't even disappear since it mostly was about trading, working together etc., things that will still be in place? Things like 'getting your country back', 'freedom' and 'taking control' seem to work quite good as retorics but in fact mean a whole lot of nothing in this matter since the actual facts don't seem to matter that much.

Ireland already is, and will stay, part of EU. I guess you mean Northern Ireland, but also a lot of Brits are living there. Either way the Brexit has a lot of negative side-effects people will have to deal with. I wouldn't be too surprised that in the end it won't happen after all. This is an interesting post I stumbled upon somewhere about it:

At the BMW International Open Luiten finished T16. A little bit disappointing since being inside the top 10 at Sunday morning. 36 holes in one day was too much for him. At the Race to Dubai now 11th, and if I'm not mistaken he's now officialy on the entry list for The Open. This week the Open de France. Same course as the 2018 Ryder Cup, and for the upcoming Ryder Cup double points this tournament, meaning a lot of big names present.

The EU is a political and economical callaboration. UK obvisouly is still in Europe, it's not like the island drifted away and is now in front of the African coast. Anyway, looking forward to the Ryder Cup. For me the most exciting golf match to watch. Europe never won four times in a row before, so they might make history in September. On the other hand, for the concept itself it might be good if USA wins. Beautiful course and hope so see some dramatic golf.

Good post. No worries, I don't take you the wrong way. It's just a bit 'frustrating' that I read so many false assumptions or even lies, even from the Brexit politicians. About how many laws are in Britain because of the EU (which in fact is <10%), what the EU is dictating and what not. Make no mistake, EU and Britain still have to deal with each other. If Britain wants to buy or sell goods to and from EU, they still have to fit in trough the EU rules. But this time they don't have a vote in it. The one who voted the age group voters was me ;) I don't share your opinion about what it says. The 'EU light' was already in 1973. If they think it was better in the periode before that, with more crime, more unemployment and quite recently 2 wars in Europe, I guess their memory is a bit blurry. Anyway, if others share their opinion about 'real freedom' this Brexit might be the end of United Kingdom with Scotland and Northern Ireland stepping out. In London they're not too happy either with mainland investments allready stopped and company's and banks moving away a minute after the Brexit vote. About the Russian lady I feel you. My father in law is from old Sovjet. While working in Europe and seeing (and participating) the benefits of capitalism he still has a Sovjet mentality. Very interesting sometimes.... edit: things like this is what I meant in the first alinea: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/europe/having-won-some-brexit-campaigners-begin-backpedaling.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1

They just started playing again, a lot of players still have to begin with their third round. For the top ranked players in the field like Stenson, Garcia and Luiten it means they will have to play two full rounds today. They try to finish today, 4th round already starts in 1,5 hour for some. Unless new rain is coming obviously... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="nl"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Play abandoned for the day. Restart at 7.30am. Round 4 to start at 9.30am in 3-balls in same order as Round 3 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BMWInternationalOpen?src=hash">#BMWInternationalOpen</a></p>&mdash; The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) <a href="https://twitter.com/EuropeanTour/status/746705711170727936">25 juni 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

One of the things I heared before from the Brexit side... but based on what actually? The average annual working time in Greece, Portugal, Italy ánd Spain is higher than in United Kingdom. Also the age when one can take his/her pension is not lower than in United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time But hey, endless vacation FTW! Euhm, to travel in EU you need a valid passport as well. Within the Schengen area there's free travel, but one still requires a passport to do so. Besides that, United Kingdom is not even part of Schengen. So besides the fact you seem to mix up EU and Schengen, your comment is untrue regardless. Well, if he's telling you things which are factual untrue, maybe you should listen to other people as well

A lot of water on course and greens, play suspended. Big chance they won't play at all today.

Stroopwafel. It's that cookie on the far right, on top of that cup.

I don't have to guess, I know the Netherlands is one ;) The EU is much more than a money transfer, but if you fail to see that I can't help you. PS this made me laugh:

Well, that a bit overdramatic in my opinion. One of the lies the Brexit politicians told was that more than 40% of the laws are because of the EU. In fact, it's 10% (and wages is not one of them). Meaning 90% of the laws and regulations in GB are local and have nothing to do with the EU. And of those 10% a lot are with consent of the British. So.. what do you think will change for the British regarding laws now? I will tell you: not a whole lot since pretty much every law in your book will remain there. What will change is a less stable Sterling Pound, which is a problem since you're on an island. Result in time is more expensive groceries and other goods. What will change is more unemployment; already banks are moving from London to Amsterdam and Frankfurt. That's not only lose of jobs inside those banks, but the people moving away won't spend there money anymore in London so side-effects to other kinds of jobs where they spend their money. And as you may know, there's a big correlation between unemployment and criminality. Last, you're talking about how many immigrants you MUST take. You can also turn it around. EU divided the amount of immigrants over the whole EU, meaning LESS immigrants move to GB because the EU placed them in Netherlands, Germany, Belgium etc. Ofcourse you can say you will stop them at the border anyway, but without EU more immigrants will try. They have an extra chance in their opinion now. And btw, let's not forget GB is a factor in the amount of refugees because of the bombing; that's when the amounts started to rise big time. So yea, in my book GB is obligated to take some responsibility in the matter. But anyway, congratulations on the Brexit. Since GB already had some kind of special position in it as a resultof negotiations in the last year, maybe it's a good thing you guys move out of it. Hopefully for you it doesn't turn out to be a catastrophic descision and the end of GB (Scotland, Northern Ireland).