YFred wrote:Hermes wrote:YFred wrote:Hermes wrote:YFred wrote:Just stop suffocation and the TCs will be grateful.
Honestly. You steal our land and houses, obliterate our heritage, expel a third of our population and try to set up your own piratical state while keeping 40,000 soldiers on our territory, then ask us to make things more comfortable for you as you are "suffocating". Are you taking the piss?
Not at all. It is a better suggestion that paying for our civil service in the TRNC, so I accept Nikitas's offer of picking up the tabs for the civil service then. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. How true that is.
Since you believe that we have a boot on your throats, then I'm tempted to keep it there. Forty thousand soldiers can't lift it off. For shame.
Interesting idea that we should pay for your civil servants to sit around and do nothing. Just what the hell do they administer? Does anyone work in the pseudo-state? Or is it all pseudo work? Nice work - if you can get it.
Well, continue with your unpleasant habits for the next 35 years just to see if it achieves any more than the last 35 years, in the mean time kiss goodbye to 10% of the island you could have got back.
We're not after 10 per cent more of the island. We want the lot back under a federal state. United of course.
And thirty-five years it's taken us to drag you to the negotiating table - kicking and screaming all the way. We warned you what would happen if you tried to declare independence. Did you bloody listen? No. You went ahead and declared your silly state. You threw your lot in with Denktash and the Turkish occupiers and expected us to trust you. Meanwhile flaunting your belligerence with your pathetic flag on Pendadaktylos. We know who we are dealing with. So understand the boot on the throat. It's there for a good reason.
We chose legal and diplomatic pressure because it was all we had. In the meantime, we rebuilt our shattered economy, housed our refugees, educated and trained our population, built up thriving public services and now enjoy high-living standards as a member state of the European Union. It's a hell of an achievement and you should show some respect.
What have you lot achieved in thirty-five years? A bankrupt, derelict, isolated, corrupt, exhausted and occupied non-existent pirate land built on theft and murder. And somehow we are to blame for your predicament? You reap what you sow, pal. If you feel the pressure to come to your senses and negotiate your way back to a united Cyprus, then it's a good thing.
Meanwhile feel free to work, travel to and spend your money in the free areas of the Republic. Enjoy our excellent medical facilities and our famous hospitality. Many of you do already without problems. That's what freedom tastes like.