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% |  | | | 
31.03.2019, 11:18
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Yeah but the silly dog-whistle clickbait keep the Brexiteers busy clicking and sharing, doesn’t it?
Those fellas probably eat salami and drink German beer. They’re in no position to talk to us about Europe, are they? | | | | | Talking of which, this meme is being widely circulated today in Brexit circles. | 
31.03.2019, 11:45
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Now we just need Boris Johnson and Michael Gove to account for illegal behaviour by the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign.
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson called on Johnson to recognise the campaign acted illegally. “I’m sure the man who seeks to be your prime minister will acknowledge … Vote Leave broke the law,” | | | | | This is a big deal as, apparently, they met daily (whether in person or by video conference) to discuss procedure. This leaves Gove and BoJo are directly implicated.
This thread might interest you... | Quote: |  | | | A short potted history of the BBC's coverage of Vote Leave's cheating in the Referendum.
It begins here, when @GoodLawProject began judicial review proceedings against the Electoral Commission. A balanced piece of coverage (by Brian Wheeler.) /1 | | | | | https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/st...96160262909952 | This user would like to thank Blueangel for this useful post: | | 
31.03.2019, 12:00
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Talking of which, this meme is being widely circulated today in Brexit circles.  Attachment 136381 | | | | | Well, surely the logical date would be 1945 when the war ended? Or do they want another 5 years of horror? Bizarre.
PS: They wrote "my" and not "mine"... sigh.
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31.03.2019, 12:04
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Talking of which, this meme is being widely circulated today in Brexit circles.  Attachment 136381 | | | | | Here’s Matt’s take:
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31.03.2019, 12:17
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Talking of which, this meme is being widely circulated today in Brexit circles.  Attachment 136381 | | | | | | Quote: | |  | | | Well, surely the logical date would be 1945 when the war ended? Or do they want another 5 years of horror? Bizarre. 
PS: They wrote "my" and not "mine"... sigh. | | | | | Well, they're being honest (how unusual), it would probably take 5 years to get everything organized to a new "normal".
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Boris Johnson and Michael Gove under fire on Vote Leave’s law-breaking Conservative grandees asked to account for their role in the Brexit campaign, after group drops its appeal against fine.
Conservative leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are facing growing calls to account for illegal behaviour by the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign.
The group has dropped its appeal against the Electoral Commission’s ruling that it broke the law by channelling hundreds of thousands of pounds of donations to an ostensibly independent campaign group, BeLeave.Boris Johnson and Michael Gove under fire on Vote Leave’s law-breaking... | | | | | https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...e_iOSApp_Other | This user would like to thank Blueangel for this useful post: | | 
31.03.2019, 12:48
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Well, surely the logical date would be 1945 when the war ended? Or do they want another 5 years of horror? Bizarre. 
PS: They wrote "my" and not "mine"... sigh. | | | | | Errrr... No. The Battle of Britain—does that ring a bell? "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". The very definition of British bollocks.
Kids these days... sigh.
(And "my" for "mine" is just one of two mistakes in that meme. But then again, it seems compulsory for all memes to be written by retarded chimpanzees.)
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31.03.2019, 12:52
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Errrr... No. The Battle of Britain—does that ring a bell?
Kids these days... sigh.
(And "my" for "mine" is just one of two mistakes in that meme. But then again, it seems compulsory for all memes to be written by retarded chimpanzees.) | | | | | Indeed. Especially as the clocks should be going FORWARD.
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31.03.2019, 13:13
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Was just going to comment on them going backwards when everyone else goes forward | This user would like to thank YuropFlyer for this useful post: | | 
31.03.2019, 13:36
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Errrr... No. The Battle of Britain—does that ring a bell? "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". The very definition of British bollocks.
Kids these days... sigh.
(And "my" for "mine" is just one of two mistakes in that meme. But then again, it seems compulsory for all memes to be written by retarded chimpanzees.) | | | | | LOL, I got so used to reading EF that I simply over-read the "my".
The double meaning of bollocks - a Freudian or wanted?
However, didn't someone post the other day, that the EU made memes illegal? | 
31.03.2019, 15:11
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Now 81,982 signatures after three days, come on Leavers - get writing your bots!!!!
The revoke A50 petition was getting that many signatures per hour | 
31.03.2019, 15:14
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Indeed. Especially as the clocks should be going FORWARD. | | | | | I do not subscribe to the theory that Leavers are not the brightest bulbs on the tree but when they do not know which way to change the clocks......
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31.03.2019, 15:47
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I do not subscribe to the theory that Leavers are not the brightest bulbs on the tree but when they do not know which way to change the clocks...... | | | | | Yeah, well, I have to double check on google every 6 months too. As the whole system is bollocks anyway I don't feel the least bit stupid about it.
Some stuff is simply not worth wasting grey cells space on.
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31.03.2019, 15:57
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | No they did not! They wrote that "it would be logical that Parliament needs to approve revocation" but that was a view; not a rule.
Edit: so far not much "logical" has happened in the Brexit process. | | | | | How could it be any different? The parliament has ordered the PM to invoke article 50, and that order was necessary for it to be invoked. As long as that order stands there can't be any revoking.
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31.03.2019, 17:10
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah, well, I have to double check on google every 6 months too. As the whole system is bollocks anyway I don't feel the least bit stupid about it. 
Some stuff is simply not worth wasting grey cells space on. | | | | | But probably most people who spread this meme do remember which way they changed their clocks this morning?
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Errrr... No. The Battle of Britain—does that ring a bell? "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". The very definition of British bollocks.
Kids these days... sigh.
(And "my" for "mine" is just one of two mistakes in that meme. But then again, it seems compulsory for all memes to be written by retarded chimpanzees.) | | | | | England still had "bollocks" until the end of the war was my point hence why would you want to turn the clock back to when the war was still ongoing even if it was a defining battle... but no worries I don't expect you to get that kind of subtlety.
Ahh, old farts these days...
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31.03.2019, 17:35
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | England still had "bollocks" until the end of the war was my point hence why would you want to turn the clock back to when the war was still ongoing even if it was a defining battle... but no worries I don't expect you to get that kind of subtlety. 
Ahh, old farts these days... | | | | | Nah! By then the US forces had saved us!
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31.03.2019, 18:37
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Talking of which, this meme is being widely circulated today in Brexit circles.  Attachment 136381 | | | | | 1940 certainly wasn’t a good year for Britain. But I suppise the will of the people would prefer that to the peace in Europe that the EU has brought us.
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31.03.2019, 21:50
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