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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. Turkish" Premier" Hoops

    Turkish" Premier" Hoops Well-Known Member

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    Going back to this, are you sure your not one of his little tittle tattle boys, and do you not think his bile towards those who don’t agree with him, leave voters, Tory voters, and Eu haters etc is acceptable, as is his hatred of anything British which goes against his europhile leanings.
    If anybody needs to get a life it’s those that fawn over every little piece of anti democratic crap, every little piece of unbelievable nonsense he writes and every single lie he tells to divert attention from his beloved France and it’s master the Corrupt 4th Reich as it faces its final death as our nation leaves it.
     
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  2. DT’s Socks

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    To take pride in 5th is crazy when will they get it
    You can’t be 5th and look after your people
    If we applied a moral taxation system for business then we would drop like a stone very quickly

    The UK economy is built on parasites and greed and out of Europe it will begin to eat its own imo

    We have cheated and there is no going back
     
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  3. sb_73

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    Here is the top 10. We are top with the lowest GDP growth, lowest GDP per capita and biggest trade deficit (most of the top ten have positive trade figures). What is good for business is not necessarily good for people, you need a balance of opportunity and protection. I’d trade 1st spot for 14th and have Germany’s economy and employment protection in a heartbeat.
     
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    So
    So we are ranked No 1 for best place for business then. What EU countries are in the top 5? That was the question SB? As I said the remoaner a will try and twist it.
     
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  5. DT’s Socks

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    France and Germany
    The UK is currently 6th
     
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    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    See post #25938, which was a direct response to one of your posts. Also asked a question which you won’t answer, for some reason.

    Can’t Brextard’s read then? Oh dear, that’s a bit stereotypical.
     
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  7. kiwiqpr

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    This is Breunion Boys – the boyband formed to stop Brexit
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    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    you would think there would be enough to write about trumps supporters without making stuff up

    How superstar German reporter fabricated an article about Trump supporters in a small Minnesota town that cost him his job and exposed him as a fraud
    • Claas Relotius, 33, was fired after caught after a colleague raised suspicions
    • He falsified 14 of 60 articles that appeared in German magazine Der Spiegel
    • One of those stories was about a small Trump-supporting Minnesota town
    • In that story, Relotius lied about seeing a hand-painted welcome sign that read 'Mexicans Keep Out', that he claimed was sitting at the edge of the town
    • Spiegel also said 'Relotius gave the inhabitants of Fergus Falls made-up biographies to suit his needs, as if he were a puppeteer'
    • Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting to the scam and apologized for his actions
    By Dailymail.com Reporter
    Published: 09:03 AEDT, 21 December 2018 | Updated: 09:46 AEDT, 21 December 2018
    Award-winning German journalist, Claas Relotius, fabricated an article about pro-Trump reporters in a small Minnesota town, and it cost him his job.
    Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel stunned the media world on Wednesday by revealing that Relotius had for years falsified stories.
    Relotius 'made up stories and invented protagonists' in at least 14 out of 60 articles that appeared in the magazine's print and online editions, Spiegel wrote, warning that other outlets could also be affected.
    One of the stories that brought Relotius down was the one he wrote about residents of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, a town that overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
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    He had written for the magazine for seven years and won numerous awards for his investigative journalism, including CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014.
    Earlier this month, he was named German Reporter of the Year for a story about a young Syrian boy.
    The cheating came to light after a colleague who worked with him on a story along the US-Mexican border raised suspicions about some of the details in Relotius' reporting.
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    The headquarters of German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg, Germany
    The colleague eventually tracked down two alleged sources quoted extensively by Relotius in the article, which was published in November.
    Both said they had never met Relotius.
    Other fraudulent stories included one about a Yemeni prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, and one about NFL star Colin Kaepernick.
    In a lengthy article, Spiegel said it was 'shocked' by the discovery and apologized to its readers as well as to anyone who may have been the subject of 'fraudulent quotes, made up personal details or invented scenes at fictitious places'.
    The Hamburg-based magazine, renowned for its in-depth investigative pieces, described the episode as 'a low point in Spiegel's 70-year history'.
    An in-house commission has been set up to pore over all of Relotius' work for the weekly.
    The reporter also wrote for a string of other well-known outlets, including German newspapers taz, Welt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine's Sunday edition.
    Relotius told Spiegel he regretted his actions and was deeply ashamed, the magazine said.
    'I am sick and I need to get help,' he was quoted as saying.
     
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    So, it would appear that we haven't been taking the threats about no planes after Brexit seriously enough
     
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  11. YorkshireHoopster

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    Yawn. Make a simple point and gesture of truce and away you go back to your weird little obsession in suitably ludicrous terms. Are you utterly incapable of writing a sentence without injecting some bile and hyperbolae into it? there is corruption everywhere in the world. Do you really believe that our politicians, English I mean because I dare say you'd have a choice few words for the Scots , Welsh and Irish are whiter than white?
     
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    Hundreds of reasons spring to mind mainly economic ones although I dare say some may have been political opponents - did you factor that possibility in. To turn your question on its head if it was that great, which I don't recall ever telling you it was, I don't know I've never lived there, they wouldn't have come over or stayed here? But you do seem to draw a very stereotypical conclusion that life behind the Iron Curtain must have been awful for everyone. You just seemed to be speaking as though you had personal experience of life in Hell.
     
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  14. Turkish" Premier" Hoops

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    Yawn off you trot Yorkie, if ya don’t like what I write about your hero DT, don’t read it.
    If you defend him and his bilious tripe that makes you no better, don’t give it large about what I write and defend his ramblings which are nothing more than bigoted tripe, lies and untruths.
     
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    I'm sure economic reasons were a part of the attraction, however, I'm just saying that life was 'difficult' for many of them from various conversations over a wide range of subjects that were discussed. Unlike you I didn't forensically examine everything in minute detail but got the general gist of people who had been deeply unhappy with their lot...
     
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    Ooooo who has rattled his cage? <laugh>
    I will let you know as it must hurt so much. Other than Sweden in 2nd and Holland in 5th I cant see any of the so called best countries. France is 21st<laugh> that’s 21st <laugh> And good old Germany in 14th.
    Funny we are told that we won’t survive outside the EU yet the countries in it are crap with business?
    Just goes to show that project fear is a load of old crap.
     
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  17. YorkshireHoopster

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    "Bigoted tripe, lies and untruths." Funny, that's exactly what I've thought of your ramblings for some time now.
     
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  18. Turkish" Premier" Hoops

    Turkish" Premier" Hoops Well-Known Member

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    Jog on ya mug, ain’t you got an arse to lick.
     
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  19. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    We'll be fine after brexit

    Said the country brought to a standstill by a toy helicopter
     
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  20. YorkshireHoopster

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    That must feel better. Let all that poison out. Then you go back to howling at the moon.
     
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