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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. ImpSaint

    ImpSaint Well-Known Member

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    It was a kid's program where they competed in silly games. Cheggars play pop. Keith Chegwin.
     
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  2. ImpSaint

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    So they bought the results from people eager to earn up to £1.50 a month. What you mean is you only approve of polls that give results you agree with while accusing others of doing so without admitting your own bias.
     
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  3. ImpSaint

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    The hex maps for that petition mirror the referendum ones.
     
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  4. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    Come on chaps......There is no doubt your not going to agree. The reality is nobody actually knows what the heck is going on. Not sure you can rely on the media.......there is so much false news out there!! Let the so called politicians sort it. Then perhaps we can have a less heated discussion?? Cheers......BT
     
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  5. West Kent Saint

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    please log in to view this image
     
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  6. tomw24

    tomw24 Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Total destruction? It's not the apocalypse. I don't believe a no deal Brexit is as disastrous as some people are predicting. It won't be ideal but life will go on.
     
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  7. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    mustn't grumble
     
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  8. StJabbo

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    Is that so? Thanks for pointing that out. So far as I remember I haven't quoted a poll on this thread or any other. Verifiable sources always relevant, polls to easy to manipulate as have been the electorate.
     
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  9. StJabbo

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    Better for some than others. the people least able to cope will be the ones hit hardest. It was all going to be so easy, we had such a strong bargaining position all would greener on the other side. Now we have reality life will go on yeah.
     
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  10. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    You are right there probably. Not destruction. No apocalypse.

    However I am 50 this year, and I feel we may get back on track by the time you are my age :)

    Still, I can always run to that safe haven of my daughter's in Atlanta...oh wait...Trump.

    Maybe we will colonise the Moon or Mars in my lifetime.

    EDIT: Just read this back and it sounds condescending Tom - it isn't meant to be. Just me frustrated
     
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  11. The Ides of March

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    What is it with successive Conservative Governments in that they manage to always divide the country from top to bottom. I remember troops were sent to Northern Ireland by Harold Wilson and they were welcomed by the Nationalist population. In 1970 the Tories came back and of course managed to turn the Nationalist popualtion against the army with their policies. Back in mainland blighty they managed to divide the nation with their policies that provoked a miners' stirke, blackouts and the 3-day week

    In 1974 Labour came back and were tasked with healing the divisions again. Forward to 1979 and Thatcher's Tories managed to divide the nation yet again by provoking the miners' and other unions into a series of strikes. And of course the right-wing press managed to make the unions the villains of the peace. 1982 and her Government's disastrous neglect of Las Malvinas stoked a war with Argentina. How many dead war héroes were there giving their lives because of the Gvernment's ineptitide? Then there was the disastrous poll-tax which put paid to her.

    Her replacement, Major was half decent despite having the destructive forces of Lawson and Lamont around. 1997 and the country was at peace with itself for over a decade thanks to New Labour. We know the script from 2010 / divide and rule, make mayhem and put the blame of everyone else except the uselessness of the Government itself.
     
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  12. StJabbo

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    Bedders, heated a bit but compared to other forums civilised. To much of this a left/right argument, in fact it's a cross party divide with individual views from all directions. DUCK incoming, dive dive dive. Yah missed you bastarrgh got me.

    A tout.

    Jab
     
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  13. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    this forum is so polite and civilized! I forward the motion that we take charge of the Government and Imps be installed as Minister of Disinformation forthwith! The ayes to the right have it!
     
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  14. thereisonlyoneno7

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    What about the Lefties?
     
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  15. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    and the ayes to the left have it too!
     
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  16. The Ides of March

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    Is there any room for New Labour? God, we could do with their return.
     
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  17. thereisonlyoneno7

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    The ayes just 2mm from the right have it :)
     
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  18. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    EU official says that when leaders asked May what she was going to do if her deal was voted down, she would only reply that she was following her 'Plan A' of getting it through. It was then they decided 'she didn't have a plan so they needed to come up with one for her'.

    how to negotiate TM style!
     
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  20. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    come on I've got a tenner riding on this. June 2016 I bet a mate our Government are so incompetent we'd actually leave. He's a bit in the know (like Imps) absolutely no chance he said. I still don't know who's getting the tenner!
     
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