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% |  | | | 
19.10.2019, 16:56
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It would have been interesting to see if the deal would have passed. Pity. Labour might live to regret this moment because this could mean no deal. They will take a huge beating at the next elections.
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19.10.2019, 16:57
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Bloody hell, Johnson is a giant prick. | | | | | Corbyn sounds measured and sensible by comparison.
Normally I’m not such a fan. Weird times.
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19.10.2019, 16:57
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19.10.2019, 16:58
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Corbyn sounds measured and sensible by comparison.
Normally I’m not such a fan. Weird times. | | | | | I know! I never in a million years thought I would ever think that about Corbyn.
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Corbyn sounds measured and sensible by comparison.
Normally I’m not such a fan. Weird times. | | | | | Measured? I'm trying to measure the range of stances he has had on brexit.
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19.10.2019, 17:01
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Measured? I'm trying to measure the range of stances he has had on brexit. | | | | |
I’m referring to his speech in parliament just now, not his political career.
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19.10.2019, 17:10
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"Brexit is like consent - we can change our minds during foreplay," read one placard. "Pulling out never works," read another.
| | | | | From Reuters...
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19.10.2019, 17:29
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I was impressed with May today. She speaks in a more measured and polite way and doesn't act like the snotty brat that Johnson does. In today's comments in parliament she put her party and country (?) first and said she'd vote for his bill because it delivers Brexit.
Boris voted against May's deal and threw her under the bus repeatedly. He came back with a deal that's mostly hers with a few tweaks, and thinks he deserves credit as the genius of the century. Yet she still supports him. Wow.
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Reason: forgot the word against
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19.10.2019, 17:37
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Letwin amendment passed that's good news.
Boris still says he will not ask for a further delay, so there is no light at the end of the chunnel yet.
Will there ever be.
Hopefully the ship of fools will sink.
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19.10.2019, 18:06
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Once the whole ordeal is over Laura Kuenssberg could probably write a few volumes on Brexit. | | | | | ...and bankrupt herself in the process. The index would be blank with no source references rendering her books as little more than supposition and anecdote. She's seriously blotted her copybook of late. I find her reporting toothless and gutless, particularly compared to Faisal Islam. | Quote: | |  | | | Labour might live to regret this moment because this could mean no deal. They will take a huge beating at the next elections. | | | | | More than Labour voted for the Letwin Amendment, and please don't forget that Letwin is a Tory himself. | Quote: | |  | | | I was impressed with May today. | | | | | I was impressed by her double layer gorilla love beads today, a marked departure from the single strand and Marley's ghost chains. You just know she really wanted to say "I effin told you so ya pompous numpty!"
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19.10.2019, 18:07
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Watching Live in Parliament today was almost as exciting as a football world cup!
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19.10.2019, 18:30
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The next extension may be for a budgetary period (5 years) as some of the 27 are getting tired of this nonsense and what a break so the EU can concentrate on other issues. | | | | | That would actually make sense if there was reasonable hope to get a follow-on arrangement done while predictable regulations apply. Unfortunately both history and the present demonstrate that no timeframe will be long enough.
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19.10.2019, 18:34
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Wake me when it's all finished! | This user would like to thank omtatsat for this useful post: | | 
19.10.2019, 18:37
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Theresa May has class.
True emotional intelligence.
They should all learn from her.
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19.10.2019, 18:40
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Corbyn is murdering the opportunity for Labour to get in at the next election.
Good.
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Watching Live in Parliament today was almost as exciting as a football world cup!
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19.10.2019, 18:53
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I know! I never in a million years thought I would ever think that about Corbyn. | | | | | Me neither!
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19.10.2019, 19:06
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Which deal did they vote for then? | | | | | Oh good grief are you for real? If yes, do some reading. If no, must try harder.
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19.10.2019, 19:14
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Theresa May has class.
True emotional intelligence.
They should all learn from her. | | | | | Indeed, I was impressed by her first speech as PM & again today.
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19.10.2019, 20:47
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Good. | | | | | We (as a country) would have never been in this situation in the first place if there'd been a decent opposition leader in office. He's appearing more statesmanlike lately, but it's scant compensation for what led us to this place, and let's be having it right, many of us would easily be capable of appearing statesmanlike with such a febrile opponent as the current PM.
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