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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. Sooperhoop

    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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  2. sb_73

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    I don’t care what the EU does, I just want to be assured that what we get is better. In every way. Surely that was the promise?

    More honest, competent and dedicated politicians
    More trade favourable to our economy
    More and better public services
    Lower tax
    Free beer
    Ecstasy in the water supply
    Spontaneous and luxurious hair growth on my bald patch
    Everybody happy
    QPR in the Champions League

    Anyone with this in their manifesto gets my vote.
     
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  3. Star of David Bardsley

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    Is Hunt dumb? He seems quite courteous and sensible. Probably too much so in this era of celebrity politics where competence is no match for telling people what they want to hear no matter how ****ing stupid it is.
     
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    bobmid Well-Known Member

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    I was working at an ex mps house today. He now does consultancy work. Quite an interesting conversation. He said quite plainly and simply, Brexit would be done and dusted already if the brexiteers agreed on what type of brexit they wanted. Soft, hard or no deal. Not the remainers fault we are at this standstill, but the fault of brexiteers. How true.
     
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  5. sb_73

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    Once again the editor of Spiked, formerly Marxism Today, now converted to ultra free market libertarianism has his say, and his fans sat in their darkened bedrooms cheer. He might have a tiny element of a point, but to claim he believes in democracy is bollocks.
     
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  6. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    vote for stan
     
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    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    Cheap corn beef, Malbec and bits of old battleships. Yummy. :)
     
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  9. Uber_Hoop

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    No real surprise, though, is it? I mean, there’s only one Remain scenario, but infinite Brexit scenarios.

    I’m not helping much, am I? :)
     
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    If I took my wife on a business trip I would have to pay for all her expenses. Naturally. I’m sure Treeza has shelled out for Phil’s trip to Tokyo.

    What the **** is this about and why didn’t Angela Merkel’s husband have to join in? Could common sense be in play here?

    Is it compulsory to have a wife/husband to be a G20 leader?
     
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  11. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    Remainer Ken Clarke shocks as he rubbishes Project Fear ‘no deal won’t collapse economy'
    ARCH-Remainer Ken Clarke has stunned anti-Brexit campaigners by admitting a no deal Brexit would not derail the British economy, confounding the direst predictions of Project Fear.

    However, he also insisted neither Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt believes Britain will leave the European Union without a deal at the end of October. Speaking at a lunch in Westminster, the former Chancellor told reporters he did not think the economy would collapse if Britain left on WTO terms, without a withdrawal agreement in place. He said: “We’ll have some short-term chaos if we literally have no deal, but you’re going to have to suffer short-term technical agreements to make sure your aeroplanes can take off, your medicines don’t run out, your food doesn’t run out.

    “I don’t think the economy will collapse: we might have a short-term recession because the Bank of England are going to have fun dealing with confidence in sterling and so on in the immediate aftermath.”
    Mr Clarke, a prominent Remain supporter, suggested the two Tory leadership contenders feel “obliged” to campaign on the basis that they would pursue a no-deal exit in the autumn.
     
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  12. bobmid

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    Always a help uber! There was only one Brexit you could put a cross for! If only they could all agree
     
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  13. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    WTF!?
     
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  15. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    One of the 48%
    Or
    One of the 52%
     
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    Help me with that: which Brexit was the right one?
     
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    Yes, but most Leave voters (and I exempt you from this Uber, because you have advocated compromise) believe they are entitled to their own version and won't accept anything else, the selfish fools.

    'That's not what I voted for'
     
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  18. Uber_Hoop

    Uber_Hoop Well-Known Member

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    Tina Blob, more like.
     
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  19. Uber_Hoop

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    Thanks. If one is a true believer in democracy (as wot I is) then one has to honour the referendum but, in doing so, one simply cannot ignore the closeness of the referendum result, majority or not.

    Saw my new babe, Caroline Flint, on QT t’other night. Good lass, is Caroline. I’d get those bags out from under those tired, tired eyes. :)
     
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  20. kiwiqpr

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    shes looking forward to meeting you already
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