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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

    56 vote(s)
    47.9%
  2. Get out

    61 vote(s)
    52.1%
  1. ELLERS

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    I refer to Michael Prortillo's comments last week "Every time she speaks I cringe thinking about what she has given away now".
     
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    Fair play to Jezza he did okay again today. :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    Didn't hear it, but he faces an open goal with May trying to defend the indefensible!
     
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    I think after listen to the first few questions it's like a re run of 2 weeks ago when she got hammered.
    I don't think she will get this through. <yikes>
     
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    I was ready to try and back her if she could renegotiate the back stop.
    However, she has lied and lied to the country and I'm sick of all those lies.
     
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    She won't, and if the Tories have any sense, they'll get rid of her when she loses the first Parliamentary vote.
     
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    I have not heard one MP support her deal...she is getting slaughtered from all sides. Shes history.
     
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    It's been pointed out though that, although these Mps are saying they don't support the deal, this doesn't necessarily mean they won't vote for it.
    They're all self serving, lying ****s don't forget.
     
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    Oh Crap Caroline Lucas is up wanting a Peoples vote <doh>
     
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    That last comment was like a knife going in saying that no one will support her plan and if it does get through the DUP won't support us after. He then went on to say that the "House of Commons has never surrendered to anybody so why start now"
     
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    £100bn potential cost of Brexit and Hunt claims we will be no better off or worse ?

    He must of missed his last few terms at school
     
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    Are you saying that there were no violent protests against the Vietnam War ? Many historians say that the riots against the war were in fact a big factor in changing American policy.
     
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    No. I wasn't. There was of course some violence but the Viet Nam demonstrations were numerous, huge and global., and no doubt influenced opinion and eventually American policy.
     
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    ‘I was sacked for saying Brexit is good’
    Meet the Berlin Deliveroo rider whose pro-Brexit smalltalk cost him his job.
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    Andres Georgi had been earning a living as a bicycle courier for Deliveroo in Berlin. But earlier this month, he made the mistake of making smalltalk with a British customer, Redfern Jon Barrett, a writer, activist and Remainer. Georgi said that Brexit was a good thing.
    After the exchange, Barrett sent a tweet complaining to Deliveroo and branding Georgi a Nazi. The accusation cost him his job. ‘The Deliveroo delivery guy just went on an aggressive nationalist rant when he saw the EU flag in our hallway. We are gay immigrants who live in Berlin. Deliveroo: please don’t send Nazis to our door!’, read the tweet.
    I caught up with Georgi after his story was reported on in Ruhrbarone, a German-language blog.
    For him, the tweet came as a shock. ‘I was having a great weekend doing lots of deliveries. Then I got this email from the coordinator asking whether the tweet’s accusations were true’, he tells me.
    Georgi is 41 years old and had been working for Deliveroo for 13 months. When we meet, there is nothing visibly Nazi about him: no questionable tattoos, no big black boots, no insignias that might arouse suspicion.
    From what Georgi remembers, the conversation with Barrett lasted only a few minutes. Barrett came to the door, and spoke in English. Georgi saw two flags in the hallway: a rainbow flag and an EU flag. ‘Are you from England?’, he asked Barrett. ‘I like the rainbow flag, but not the EU flag. I think Brexit is good’, he said. Barrett asked him why, and he replied that Germany had too much influence in the EU. In other words, ‘nothing nationalistic at all’, Georgi says. ‘I was in a good mood as I was about to meet my girlfriend and I was definitely not being unfriendly’, he insists.
    When I contacted Deliveroo, it told me that it had terminated Georgi’s contract not because of this specific incident, but because of ‘other unprofessional behaviour’. But Georgi showed me an email conversation with his Deliveroo coordinator which suggests otherwise.
    The exchange focuses almost entirely on the conversation about Brexit. One email says that he had behaved irresponsibly by speaking about touchy political issues with customers. ‘It was especially inappropriate to tell an obviously pro-EU Brit living in Germany that Brexit was a good thing’, it reads. Although another case was also mentioned – a female customer had complained about an unwarranted remark – it was clearly the tweet that triggered the sacking. (An accusation, however spurious, that a company employs Nazis is no small matter in Germany.)
     
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    Theresa May to hit the campaign trail, touring the country to persuade voters to back her, like she did in the election. Are Number 10 entirely sure that's going to help?
     
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