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[Politics] Brexit
- Thread starter KingstonSeagull
- Start date
I've never actually considered opting out of 'the future' as a national policy. But I do look good in fur and I like rare meat so who knows
You make it sound almost attractive.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,894
I just used that as a small example of free movement and trade. Obviously that will get harder once we are no longer in the EU.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 25,866
#getbackcontrolofourpunctuationandspellingFFS
What would Willy Pope have made of it
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,894
Tim Martin always seems to have the persona and diction of someone who has been forced to exist solely on Cider for six months.
There are some good things about being in the EU as well as bad ,cleaning up the seas ,especially around Brighton was a good thing ,and the referendum was close and i would have thought fine if Remain had won ,but what the majority Remain MP`s and the Remain Prime Minister have done was totally unexpected ,not forgetting the EU dismayed we would have the nerve to leave will not meet us halfway
What would Willy Pope have made of it
Or old Lawrence. He used to write all my spelling errors at the end of my work, then add 'Bunsen burner, litmus paper, cobalt chloride, electron' etc by way of mocking me, the epitome of the aesthetically ignorant scientist that I was (5L English class, science subdivision). I saw it as a badge of honour. The pompus, condescending old fart.
What would Willy Pope have made of it
The best English Teacher ever but Ken Garland was a great History teacher.
Steady. You have acquired a semi (a semi-ALF: space before the comma syndrome, with added loss of space after it, hence the semi). If you start feeling especially hostile towards Catholics, Muslims or socialists, take an aspirin and recite the mantra 'I must, I must, I must increase my bust'.
Garry Nelson's teacher
Well-known member
Of course it's almost literally impossible to craft a parallel narrative of the UK 1973-2019 outside of the EEC/EU. Who knows, we might have been better off? (Personally I think that doesn't stack up.) But the point is that we have been in the EEC/EU 1973-2019 and are now arguing about whether and how to extract ourselves during which time everyone accepts that we have developed a myriad of mutual dependencies. Indeed, one of the pillars of the Brexiteer's case is that we have been hugely in thrall to the EU in this time - but that somehow (especially in the no deal perspective) we can be free in a single bound or with just a few bumps in the road.
Of course, it could be that the short term disruption (to put it at its absolute mildest) will reap longer term benefits - but these have never been convincingly explained, other than in the most generically optimistic fashion - that there is a queue of fast-growing countries awaiting the privilege of doing trade deals with us. Let's run with this fantasy for a minute. In such a situation as we bounced out of the close trading relationships with our existing partners, who will (to use a Brexiteer term that has proved to be totally false) 'hold all the cards' in these new negotiations?
Is there ANY evidence at all that this has been thought-through? The floor is yours, Leavers...………………..
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,113
So you agree that they haven't done anything. They couldn't do anything because we couldn't (and still can't) tell them what it is we actually want.
What are they supposed to do, use psychic powers to guess what we want. They, like so many of the UK population, have been bemused bystanders watching this whole entirely predictable narrative of a complete clusterf*** play out.
But of course it's their fault
When? WHEN?! Will many realise that the patronising (you know what that means, right?!) etc approach to getting people onside doesn’t work? You’ve gotta be stupid, really stupid, not to have learnt this over the past 4 years.
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,113
Did you copy and paste that from official records?
The best teacher ever was the Latin teacher and form master of 4L (Ross). He used to slide down his chair till he almost disappeared under the desk. He was mesmorizing, never raised his voice, and maintained a 'pin drop' silence.
The worst was Rusty Reynolds - nice lad but couldn't control an anaesthetised tortoise. He'd end up missing fingers
Oh, Looby Jones was shit too. An irritable and much less talented version of Severus Snape.
Baldseagull
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So 2 out of 3 showed no increase in support for a referendum and 1 did. And he states a tendency he has observed that less people say yes to a second referendum if you say remain is on the ballot, but within the text of Watfords link, he describes it differently, he says "But when Leave supporters are asked whether there should be another referendum on the principle of Brexit, only one in eight are in favour." The way he describes the question in Watfords link seems to me, that when Leavers are asked if they wanted another Leave/Remain referendum 1 in 8 do, when you just say a peoples vote on the deal, 1 in 4 leavers want it.
Thanks for bouncing that - I hadn't seen it (what with all the other bollocks on the thread, including my own). Rolled around laughing at it. Sums it up perfectly. I would need to be so drunk I couldn't stand, and I'd have long ago solied myself, in order to come up with that sequence of plans. That or not remotely interested.
She's thick, isn't she
It has to be the explanation.And, again, in English ?
Forgive my grammar i do not do writing very much in my job .What part of my post do you not understand rather then disagree with ?.
I think a feeling helplessness, anger and fear of the EU just MIGHT in part have something to do with which newspapers people read. Just sometimes.
Baldseagull
Well-known member
Edit, didn't tally.
Grombleton
Surrounded by <div>s
- Dec 31, 2011
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Answer the question.