View Poll Results: What would you personally prefer to happen? |
I want the UK to stay in an ever-closer union
|    | 49 | 23.11% |
I want the UK to stay in a loosely connected EU
|    | 68 | 32.08% |
I want the UK out because the EU is bad for the UK
|    | 22 | 10.38% |
I want the UK out because the EU is a bad thing
|    | 23 | 10.85% |
I want the UK out because this would be good for the rest of us
|    | 17 | 8.02% |
I don't really care
|    | 33 | 15.57% |  | | | 
20.05.2019, 12:41
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I watched, and enjoyed, and voted Switzerland and Australia, amongst others... but Oz? European? Seriously?  | | | | | It’s the Eurovision Song Contest not the European song contest.
It was originally started for members of the European broadcasting union so being a European country was not a prerequisite as not all member states were in Europe.
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20.05.2019, 12:51
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Wasn't Eurovision originally (maybe it still is?) a sort of cooperation between the various state TV producers in which they shared video streams of common interest, probably to save costs on duplicating on-site camera teams at such events. But I don't know whether they cover anything besides the song contest any more these days.
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20.05.2019, 13:05
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20.05.2019, 14:21
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey were all full members of the EBU in 1956, and were all eligible to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest that year.
The question of eligibility to participate in the ESC has been done to death here.
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20.05.2019, 14:49
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Of course, by one measure, the French win every year | 
20.05.2019, 14:52
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The end of this week should be fun. | The following 4 users would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
20.05.2019, 15:00
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in
Predictions Loz?
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20.05.2019, 15:10
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Predictions Loz? | | | | | The Brexit Party to clean up. Tories won’t break double figures. Lib Dem’s to do well. Change UK to die before they begin. And Corbyn to come out and blame Labour’s poor showing on austerity and a lack of diversity at community centres.
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20.05.2019, 15:18
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The Brexit Party to clean up. Tories won’t break double figures. Lib Dem’s to do well. Change UK to die before they begin. And Corbyn to come out and blame Labour’s poor showing on austerity and a lack of diversity at community centres. | | | | | We've still got a couple of days to go.
And anything could happen in a day or two, as Austria has shown.
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20.05.2019, 15:20
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | We've still got a couple of days to go.
And anything could happen in a day or two, as Austria has shown. | | | | | Hope it involves milkshakes. That's very funny...
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20.05.2019, 15:29
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Hope it involves milkshakes. That's very funny... | | | | | Very funny in that it’s completely counter productive. Very funny in that every milkshake thrown just delivers a load more votes to his party. Very funny until someone gets shot.
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20.05.2019, 15:30
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The end of this week should be fun. | | | | | Too bad there's no Exit Brexit party.
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20.05.2019, 15:31
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Too bad there's no Exit Brexit party. | | | | | There is, and they’re polling on 4% | The following 3 users would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
20.05.2019, 15:34
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Very funny in that it’s completely counter productive. Very funny in that every milkshake thrown just delivers a load more votes to his party. Very funny until someone gets shot. | | | | | Fully agree - the first time, OK it's a bit of fun, nobody got hurt. Carrying on with this is completely counter-productive and WILL be used as an excuse when some supporters of other persuasions throw acid or bricks at politicians they disagree with.
Violence is never the answer, even if you believe Farage and Yakult-Lennon to be reprehensible, lying toads.
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20.05.2019, 15:35
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Very funny in that it’s completely counter productive. Very funny in that every milkshake thrown just delivers a load more votes to his party. Very funny until someone gets shot. | | | | | I know, I know...
I think I'm just saturated (no pun intended) to the point of hilarity with the current politics and most of it is just makes me roar with laughter. The milkshake chuckers are now labeled "Radicalised remainers" by Farage. What's not to love about that..?
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20.05.2019, 15:39
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | I know, I know...
I think I'm just saturated (no pun intended) to the point of hilarity with the current politics and most of it is just makes me roar with laughter. The milkshake chuckers are now labeled "Radicalised remainers" by Farage. What's not to love about that..? | | | | | Well I just watched the video and it was rather funny.not sure about the guy doing the throwing though, police need to seize his hard drive by the looks of him.
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20.05.2019, 16:26
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So, how should we interpret the polls.
Is the electorate saying, good riddance that we'll soon be out of the EU so let's give them one roaring farewell by voting in the biggest clowns we can muster? And after that we'll go back to being sensible?
Or is this the beginning of the new normal?
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20.05.2019, 17:08
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Is the electorate saying, good riddance that we'll soon be out of the EU so let's give them one roaring farewell by voting in the biggest clowns we can muster? | | | | | The EP needs more coffee break speakers.
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20.05.2019, 17:20
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The EP needs more coffee break speakers. | | | | |
The EP is a coffee break.
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20.05.2019, 18:56
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Well I just watched the video and it was rather funny.not sure about the guy doing the throwing though, police need to seize his hard drive by the looks of him. | | | | | The 'weapon' was a banana and salted caramel milkshake from Five Guys 
I bet that made a stink, and the guy who threw it is a Sky customer service advisor. Even Kay Burley announced that he's a Sky employee "in the interests of full disclosure". https://news.sky.com/story/man-arres...arage-11724800
I'm still retching at the mere thought of a banana and salted caramel milkshake...eeewwww
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