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% |  | | | 
30.01.2020, 07:02
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Is that a question?  | | | | | Well what do you think? | 
30.01.2020, 08:03
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | EU Parliamentary debate and vote on the Withdrawal Agreement
For those that want to relive the EU Parlamentary debate and vote on
the UK - EU Withdrawal Agreement together with all the speeches by the
various MEP's plus Nigel Farage ( and the Brexit Party's ) disgraceful
behaviour in the middle of the debate.
Here's the link - although fast forward the video to 16:39 for the start
of the debate and the singing of For Auld Lang Syne begins at 18:35 EU Parliamentary debate on the UK - EU Withdrawal agreement | | | | | That's a lot to wade through. 17:22:40 for those who want to see Farage making an arse of himself and his party behaving like kindergarten toddlers.
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30.01.2020, 10:52
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Ooh look! More lies... | Quote: | |  | | | Mr Javid’s spending round speech, just three months before the election, the Chancellor declared he had “turned the page on austerity.”
Mr Javid said: "No department will be cut next year. Every single department has had its budget for day to day spending increased at least in line with inflation.
"That's what I mean by the end of austerity." | | | | | Today... | Quote: |  | | | The Chancellor promised just months ago that no department would have to shrink their budgets in 2020.
But today he wrote to cabinet ministers, asking them to draw up cuts of up to 5% of their spending plans.
They’ve been told to go through their budgets “line by line” and be ready to justify any spending plans and projects they want to keep.
In the note, Mr Javid wrote: “We have been elected with a clear fiscal mandate to keep control of day to day spending.
“This means there will need to be savings made across government to free up money to invest in our priorities.” | | | | | | The following 4 users would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
30.01.2020, 13:46
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I wonder if Lidl UK planned this. The top offer for Brexit weekend https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/super-we...-steaks/p28936
Gammon steaks.
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30.01.2020, 14:16
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | That's a lot to wade through. 17:22:40 for those who want to see Farage making an arse of himself and his party behaving like kindergarten toddlers. | | | | | No thanks. I still think he looks like a smug tortoise in a bad suit.
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30.01.2020, 14:42
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | No thanks. I still think he looks like a smug tortoise in a bad suit. | | | | | Spitting Image couldn't make a puppet with such a rubbery mush.
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30.01.2020, 15:11
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Latest travel advice from Simon Calder regarding travel within the EU until the end of 2020... https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-a9309246.html
...and newly published travel advice for travel within the EU from
1. January 2021 with a list of important changes that we need to be aware of. https://www.gov.uk/visit-europe-1-january-2021 | 
30.01.2020, 16:31
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30.01.2020, 18:20
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So when is this actually happening? In 4.5 hours?
It's quite a thing to happen, no matter what one thinks about it: It's a first and - after four hysterical (in all meanings of that word) years - historical.
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30.01.2020, 19:34
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | So when is this actually happening? In 4.5 hours?
| | | | | Tomorrow so 28 hours 15 minutes | The following 3 users would like to thank fatmanfilms for this useful post: | | 
30.01.2020, 19:46
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | It is easy to recognise questions, they have a question mark like this "?".  | | | | | To be fair, marton, many of your statements on EF end in a question mark!
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30.01.2020, 20:07
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I wondered if I should put a sarcastic emoticon but actually: Nope.
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"‘Twas the night before Brexit
When all through the state
Some people were worried
Concerned for their fate
Claims had been made without enough care
In the belief that EU membership was grossly unfair
Brexiters were nestled content in their beds
While visions of the 1950s danced in their heads
Boris in his tie and Nigel in his blazer
Congratulated each other on a good interest raiser
Then on Twitter there arose such a clatter
As Leavers and remainers continued the chatter
Away to Facebook I flew for a wheeze
To see people arguing about the new 50ps
Will Big Ben bong?
Will our passports be blue?
Were curvy bananas really banned by the EU?
The sky remained grey as the rain tumbled down
The green and pleasant land turned slowly to brown
When what to my feline eyes did appear?
But a leadership contest, led by a Keir
With Rebecca and Emily and Lisa N too
To pick up the pieces, though missing the glue
Now Cummings, now Raab now Shapps & Patel,
Now Gove, now Fox now Boris Johnson as well!
You got what you wanted, the victory is yours
But please don’t close all our windows or slam all the doors
Is Brexit hell or is Brexit heaven?
We start to get the answer tomorrow at 11
And so I exclaimed, without too much fuss
Farewell to the EU; it’s not you, it’s us."
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