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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%
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Old 22.11.2019, 14:09
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It’s ‘ollin it dahn here.
He'll bobby off soon DB. Eh’s gorra munk on.
Yo ay rung thier, cock!
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Yam yam sounds like a cat's name or a delicious dish.

What exactly is Yam Yam?

(yes, I know ; bless my cotton socks and all that)
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Old 22.11.2019, 14:14
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Yam yam sounds like a cat's name or a delicious dish.

What exactly is Yam Yam?
Had to google it :-)
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Yam yam sounds like ... a delicious dish.
I am!

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A person from the Black Country (or its colonies) who talks with a distinctive accent and/or a very ancient dialect.

The King of the Yam Yams is Noddy Holder.
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Old 22.11.2019, 14:18
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Где Тони Клифтон?
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Old 22.11.2019, 14:56
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Где Тони Клифтон?
на кухне?
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He'll bobby off soon DB. Eh’s gorra munk on.
Aas reekon thas reet. Thas buggert ahn thas geet t'munk an thee.
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I am!
A person from the Black Country (or its colonies) who talks with a distinctive accent and/or a very ancient dialect.
My father came from South Staffordshire - he used to say that he had trouble understanding his cousins who came from Walsall, maybe 10 miles away . ("wum" for "home", for example)
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I'd have put my money on a minglesnatcher or himble-sausage myself.

I'm sure he'll put us right soon enough.
I wouldn't count on it, it could take quite some time to google all those British regions.
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Why not? You seem to be making a lot of generalisations about "working classes ". What has Oz got to do with the Dec GE?
It goes back to an exchange I was having over the changing political landscape in the English speaking world and how the modern Labour Party doesn’t represent Labour values anymore.

Generalisations is how political parties target voters. I presume you’re familiar with “Workington Man”? Generalising over voting habits of certain demographics of the electorate is perfectly normal.
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Old 22.11.2019, 16:38
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It goes back to an exchange I was having over the changing political landscape in the English speaking world and how the modern Labour Party doesn’t represent Labour values anymore.

Generalisations is how political parties target voters. I presume you’re familiar with “Workington Man”? Generalising over voting habits of certain demographics of the electorate is perfectly normal.
According to Google, Workington Man is a competition who can tell the biggest lie, not who can make the biggest generalisation. What point are you trying to make here because it seems to have crashed and burned.
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According to Google, Workington Man is a competition who can tell the biggest lie, not who can make the biggest generalisation. What point are you trying to make here because it seems to have crashed and burned.
This is what happens when imaginary Brits learn about English culture remotely, rather than actually living it like we have done.

Tony Clifton: you're busted. You're as British as Rasputin. What do you say to that?
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Old 22.11.2019, 16:57
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This is what happens when imaginary Brits learn about English culture remotely, rather than actually living it like we have done.

Tony Clifton: you're busted. You're as British as Rasputin. What do you say to that?
I don’t know what I should say to that other than that you’re mistaken.

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I don’t know what I should say to that other than that you’re mistaken.

It probably says more about the membership on here that I get accused of being a Russian bot.
Where did you say you were from, again?
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@Tony Clifton
We’re a pretty educated bunch of anglo-saxon expats (mixed with Swiss for some) with an acute awareness of refined not-so-noticeable differences.
It won’t fly to strongly proclaim native knowledge of one country if it isn’t true.
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It goes back to an exchange I was having over the changing political landscape in the English speaking world and how the modern Labour Party doesn’t represent Labour values anymore.

Generalisations is how political parties target voters. I presume you’re familiar with “Workington Man”? Generalising over voting habits of certain demographics of the electorate is perfectly normal.
Modern day UK doesn't represent huge amounts of the UK any more. Your point? Parties evolve. Or should we also be harking back for the days of rolling power cuts, picket lines and scabs?

Generalisations are, are they? Fancy that.

AFAIK or understand, the composite Workington Man was very short-lived and dismissed as a load of guff.

You still haven't answered my question about why you think the "working class" voter isn't concerned about the rights of working mums etc - your "point" about Jacinta Arden was unfinished.

I don't think you're a native Brit either. If you are, what's the first half of the postcode you spent most time at? S42 for me.

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Oh FFS!!!!! Don't tell anyone you've got a famous spire ya numpty
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