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

  1. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    So I take it you think our families are somehow different to everyone else? You think they are the only youngsters to think that way? I have met quite a few friends of the grandchildren. Of course there is a mixed response from these youngsters. I have to say if these are representative of that age group if we had another referendum it still would be a close affair.
     
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  2. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    David Cameron decided to ask the audience. The audience, having been sold a pup by snake oil salesmen like Farage and Johnson, got it wrong. Cameron knew that and effed off sharpish. The snake oil salesmen continue to peddle venom.

    Hard to see a way out now, and I don’t hold the majority of MPs in contempt for failing to come up with a solution to an insoluble problem. History will not be kind to Cameron, Farage, Boris Johnson or the U.K. press. It will be kinder, I think, to both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, neither of whom created this mess.
     
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  3. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    when picked up and wrapped in a blanket she said "**** me that was cold, now tell me Boris will beat me in the wet T-shirt competition!"
     
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  4. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    So any suggestions of a way out of this? Other of course going as you or I want it??
     
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  5. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Very sad. My mate’s dad worked at that plant, many years ago when an army of people was employed there.

    @ImpSaint , Scunthorpe is near you isn’t it? So what do we blame, privatisation, Brexit, or the EU?
     
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  6. StJabbo

    StJabbo Well-Known Member

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    Regulated period for the EU elections began on Jan 23rd 2019. Apparently all in order.
    All quotes from brexit candidates or supporters can be verified.
    I don't think anyone wouldn't understand this is a Led By Donkeys poster, whats misleading about the quote? Poster origin perfectly clear certainly not presented as being from BP. Bring on the law suit oh.
    please log in to view this image
     
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  7. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    I think the audience went for their 50/50. Or the 51.89/48.11 as it is now known.
     
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  8. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    It doesn't even degrade quicker, which was the whole ****ing point, and they can't be recycled.
     
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  9. greensaint

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    Leadsom gone then (good).
    It's all a bit of a mess really.
     
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  10. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    God knows. The country has never been more divided, and it's hard to envisage any political outcome or process that's going to bring us back together again.

    But as you say, we're all going to have to start by accepting that none of us is going to get exactly what we want.
     
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  11. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    He could also have phoned a friend. But with friends like Boris Johnson, who needs enemies?
     
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  12. San Tejón

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    Reduce the voting age to 16, have a second vote, but only for those up to the age of 60/65/ working age.
    Give the vote over to those whose futures will genuinely be affected by Brexit, rather than let the retirees, whose life won’t change after Brexit, decide, based on some sort of nostalgic desire to live in the past. (Like my sister for one)

    Steps back and dons kevlar body armour. :bandit:
     
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  13. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Biased in which direction, Dave? I hear right-wingers say it is leftist. Left-wingers say it is rightist, and Centralists wonder why the BBC give them a hard time. The original mission of the BBC is to have no position, but to shine a light on the truth, if they can. I've no doubt that bias creeps in, but name another news outlet with less bias [please don't say SKY, because I'll choke on my laughter].
     
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  14. AberdeenSaint

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    Have another referendum, which will deliver a remain result, and maintain the status quo. Maybe that is genius May`s end game plan after all !
     
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  15. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    We need compostable plastic which isn't fossil-fuel based but is bio-based and therefore breaks down to harmless substances
    Also doesn't generate methane when decomposing
    That's my understanding anyway
     
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  16. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    We had one of those at St Marys. Agent May is the saviour of the union.
     
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  18. davecg69

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    If you look at the way the BBC has constantly interviewed Brexiteers, given Farage a platform to spout his doctrine and rarely given the Remain side any chance to speak, then I think that says it all. Question Time has even had UKIP candidates seeded in the audience to argue the case for Brexit. It sickens me
     
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  19. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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  20. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Andrew Marr destroyed Farage the other day. I know what you mean, but as TSS says, what’s the alternative?
     
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