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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
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16.12.2019, 21:52
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I think I might kill myself if we close this thread. It’s become such a piece of my daily life that without I will descend into heroin addiction and ultimately death.
Just so the mods are aware. | | | | | We are aware.
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16.12.2019, 21:54
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I saw what she responded to and there really wasn't much of a point there; just something accusing someone of being materialistic, because naturally if you are in any way fiscally productive or responsible then you must be a handmaiden to the whores of Mammon or something equally profound. Yawn. | | | | | And that's a huge assumption about myself, my beliefs and my circumstances. It's one thing to be fiscally productive and another to have it handed to you on a plate. It's one thing to be fiscally responsible and another to be so to the detriment of others and devoid of any air of altruism.
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16.12.2019, 21:59
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | You don't need a crystal ball just to be someone with some common sense to work it out. It's been obvious for months if not years. I know you believe that the little people don't know what they are voting for BIG mistake.
17.4 million people voted for something to happen, MP's ignored this vote, they paid the price & now we have a government that will carry out the wishes of those 17.4 million.
I don't hold much cash, you must be speaking about risk averse people, I invest in equities & don't really care about daily valuations. | | | | | "the little people" ?
Who exactly do are you referring to with that phrase?
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16.12.2019, 22:02
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | You don't need a crystal ball just to be someone with some common sense to work it out. It's been obvious for months if not years. I know you believe that the little people don't know what they are voting for BIG mistake.
17.4 million people voted for something to happen, MP's ignored this vote, they paid the price & now we have a government that will carry out the wishes of those 17.4 million.
I don't hold much cash, you must be speaking about risk averse people, I invest in equities & don't really care about daily valuations. | | | | | Strange things numbers! 13.9 million people voted for Boris so a large chunk of your 17.4 million seems not so interested anymore in something happening.
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16.12.2019, 22:09
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Not a criticism, an observation! You know, like the ones you make! Too many exclamation marks rob the writing of actual impact!
If you think emojis would assist in that regard, sure.
It's not clear. It's your view. If you didn't write in grandiose-sounding sound bites and actually said something instead that didn't sound like a smug admonishment, I'd be more inclined to listen to you. You're banging on about the treatment of the Jewish population. Again. Why? What on earth is the point you are trying to make?
Phillips and Cooper have spoken out about anti-Semitism, Phillips has been very critical of Corbyn.
Your calling those three politicians naive apathetic cowards speaks volumes about you. I really don't think you know much about them at all. They must just come under the heading of "not Tory" I suppose. | | | | | Are you a teacher or something?! I'll write how I like, if you don't like it then that's your problem!
I'm talking about antisemitism again, because it's one of the reason's that Labour lost. Nor should it ever be forgotten how close the country came to having a hard left antisemetic party in power, nor the enablers that allowed it happen! | Quote: |  | | | Whatever turns you on.
Maybe just start off with avoiding trying to pass off your opinion as fact? | | | | | Maybe you should learn to distinguish facts from personal analysis. I am clear when I present facts, and I hope it's also clear when I'm presenting my analysis of what I believe is taking place. I said that I believed Labour was out of touch with its working class routes, and the election has proven that to be the case.
If you have a problem with what I'm saying then speak up! Don't just come with the weak argument that I'm presenting opinion as facts. I'm happy to debate if you are.
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16.12.2019, 22:33
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I am clear when I present facts, and I hope it's also clear when I'm presenting my analysis of what I believe is taking place. I said that I believed Labour was out of touch with its working class routes, and the election has proven that to be the case.
If you have a problem with what I'm saying then speak up! | | | | | Speaking up, as requested.
Would that be the M6, M60, M61, M62 or M57?
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Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
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17.12.2019, 06:58
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. | | | | | Well you’re the one repeatedly derailing a thread about Brexit with your mithering about Jeremy Corbyn. Why don’t you open a thread about it if you’re so obsessed?
I thought it was ‘Brexit means Brexit’ not ‘Brexit means Corbyn’.
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17.12.2019, 08:04
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Maybe you should learn to distinguish facts from personal analysis. I am clear when I present facts, and I hope it's also clear when I'm presenting my analysis of what I believe is taking place. I said that I believed Labour was out of touch with its working class routes, and the election has proven that to be the case.
. | | | | | That wouldn't be so bad i.e. presenting opinions or what you consider to be facts, if you didn't try to shut down any opinion that wasn't tuned to yours. This is what you've been called out for, repeatedly. You and a couple others. You can dismiss people's opinions not even bothering to actually read their posts but that won't make you an authority on the subject of Brexit here (or anything else, as a matter of fact). This is a very strong-willed crowd and little do they care about anyone's sense of entitlement&superiority or ego. Also a crowd that would like to discuss ideas more than discuss people.
Since the mods can't be convinced to close this thread, at least for the moment, maybe you should also try to bring more positivity here.
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I don't hold much cash, you must be speaking about risk averse people... | | | | | Assuming that you hold certain opinion because you have cash is on its own discriminatory. Especially when everybody knows you are a self made person who started oh his own, being a kid and from less than a scratch. I know what it feels like though my investments were not financial, couldn't be.
Having political opinion isn't linked to how much cash one has, but how his deductive skills are. If one cannot deduce and all we read are affective appeals..or statements such as "look at all your cash", it shows certain logical pretext.
You aren't obligated to account to anyone here for your deductive competences, forward thinking, willingness to risk nor political affiliation only because you get impolitely snapped at.
I wonder how Brexit xmas will feel this year in the UK.
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | You aren't obligated to account to anyone here for your deductive competences, forward thinking, willingness to risk nor political affiliation only because you get impolitely snapped at.
. | | | | | Is he the only one who gets impolitely snapped at? Or why else do you insist making sure that only a selected few don't get impolitely snapped at.
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17.12.2019, 08:41
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Assuming that you hold certain opinion because you have cash is on its discriminatory. Especially when everybody knows you are a self made person who started oh his own, being a kid and from less than a scratch. I know what it feels like though my investments were not financial, couldn't be.
Having political opinion isn't linked to how much cash one has, but how his deductive skills are. If one cannot deduce and all we read are affective appeals..or statements such as "look at all your cash", it shows certain logical pretext.
You aren't obligated to account to anyone here for your deductive competences, forward thinking, willingness to risk nor political affiliation only because you get impolitely snapped at.
I wonder how Brexit xmas will feel this year in the UK. | | | | | Seriously, you are using your mod status to protect a member from other members opposing his views?
You’re welcome to it. I’m off to uncurl my toes and de-cringe my major muscle groups.
Anyone for the pub?
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | You’re welcome to it. | | | | | Thank you for allowing people to have their opinion.
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17.12.2019, 08:58
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Assuming that you hold certain opinion because you have cash is on its discriminatory. | | | | | Que?
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17.12.2019, 09:01
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Crikey. That's a job description they don't advertise at school. Is the pension decent? | | | | | The bad news for the money obsessed on here is that tax wise, it is damnation without relief.
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17.12.2019, 09:21
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Thank you for allowing people to have their opinion. | | | | | You should try the same once in a while. Even for those people you don't like. | The following 9 users would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Assuming that you hold certain opinion because you have cash is on its discriminatory. Especially when everybody knows you are a self made person who started oh his own | | | | | ?? do they ?? thats quite stalky really, I have no idea about FMF's finances, or anyone elese on here, for all I know he's a 14yr old girl in india running their mis-information scheme, I take just about everything posted on here with a large pinch of salt, and you should do, including (well, especially) my posts
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | ?? do they ?? thats quite stalky really, I have no idea about FMF's finances, or anyone elese on here, for all I know he's a 14yr old girl in india running their mis-information scheme, I take just about everything posted on here with a large pinch of salt, and you should do, including (well, especially) my posts | | | | | Who says I don't? I mean yours.. | 
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | ?? I take just about everything posted on here with a large pinch of salt, and you should do, including (well, especially) my posts | | | | | I've done this since the internet started growing.
I presume everyone is a fat bald guy sat there in dirty underwear, oh! wait a minute that's me. | The following 8 users would like to thank Raffles for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I've done this since the internet started growing.
I presume everyone is a fat bald guy sat there in dirty underwear, oh! wait a minute that's me.  | | | | | Thought you were in always dressed to the nines in your top hat and white tie, old boy!
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