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

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
People still use Corbyn as their 'get out' even now! What if corbyn, but corbyn blah blah. Why people give a **** about some back bencher over the actual incompetence of our puppet PM is beyond me.
Don't be silly Bob. You answered your own question. Because they believe it is easy to deflect attention away from the incompetence of the chosen one by harping on about someone who is the bogeyman for all right thinking decent folk what vote for all that's good. Starmer doesn't give a toss. He knows that they can waste as much time and energy as they like because more sensible voters will look at Johnson and say " Why does that fat man have that silly hair?" and then follow it up with "Why does he talk suck bollocks? That man on the other side knows what he is doing."

Anyway why do you call him a puppet?. Nobody's pulled his strings for at least 24 hours.
 
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Intriguing, but begs the question 'Why should you be privy to this information, but not the Select Committee?'

Are you saying that there was a lot done 'behind the scenes' in relation to investigating Russian interference in the EU referendum?

Let's just say that I'm very good friends with a "civil servant"
 
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Let's just say that I'm very good friends with a "civil servant"

So you don't actually know anything then.:emoticon-0100-smile

Johnson is getting major stick over the lack of action over possible Russian interference in the EU referendum. If there really had been 'behind the scenes' investigations, wouldn't he say so (without giving details)? Or indeed, wouldn't the government have made the Select Committee aware?

I don't buy it, I'm afraid.
 
So you don't actually know anything then.:emoticon-0100-smile

Johnson is getting major stick over the lack of action over possible Russian interference in the EU referendum. If there really had been 'behind the scenes' investigations, wouldn't he say so (without giving details)? Or indeed, wouldn't the government have made the Select Committee aware?

I don't buy it, I'm afraid.

It wasn't this particular issue that my friend was referring to

He was approached about his role because of his language skills so has a very specialist role

Most of what he does will never be in the public domain nor available to the clowns in the HoC
 
It wasn't this particular issue that my friend was referring to

He was approached about his role because of his language skills so has a very specialist role

Most of what he does will never be in the public domain nor available to the clowns in the HoC

Ah ok, your original post mentioned the Select Committee and therefore gave the impression that you were referring to the Russia report. A little misleading.

Interesting that your very good friend would tell you things that his employers don't know about.
 
Ah ok, your original post mentioned the Select Committee and therefore gave the impression that you were referring to the Russia report. A little misleading.

Interesting that your very good friend would tell you things that his employers don't know about.

His function doesn't trust politicians lol

The politicians can't be trusted with a lot of sensitive information
 
I see that more Tories have appeared on Russia today tv than labour mps, also taking more money. Must have slipped johnsons mind that.
 
malnourishment
in 2020
whose fault is it
the so called government or the so called parents


NHS Slaps Down Layla’s Exaggerated Malnourishment Figures

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LibDem leadership candidate Layla Moran attempted to make a splash in the Guardian earlier this month, with a tale of extraordinary numbers of malnourished children living in Britian. Layla’s figures were enthusiastically written up by the Guardian, claiming “Almost 1,000 under-16s with malnutrition were admitted as inpatients to Cambridge University hospitals NHS foundation trust alone”. Except this simply wasn’t true. Not even close to true.Late last week Cambridge University Hospitals felt compelled to issue a statement slapping down Layla’s figures…

“The correct number of young patients admitted between January 2015 and January 2020 is 33, and not 915 as has been reported. This has understandably caused considerable concern to many.”

Far from Layla’s claim that 915 malnourished children admitted to Cambridge University Hospitals, in reality the true number was actually 33 in the last 66 months. 6 a year is of course 6 too many. Layla’s figures however were an exaggeration of some 2780%. Almost as forensic as Sir Keir…
 
Would he? What he would or wouldnt have done is totally irrelevant. What our PM does or who he takes money from is.

It just amuses me that those who supported Corbyn - for whom the Russians could do no wrong - now come out and say, why are the Tories protecting us from these terrible Russians?

I'm no apologist for Boris. He can be effective when he pulls his finger out, but too often he's lazy and doesn't master the detail - which is why a sharp lawyer like Kier Starmer will take points off him at PMQT. I'd have no problem if Boris stepped down. Sunak would be my choice for replacement at the moment, but he hasn't been fully tested yet.
 
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Lolz

How would you define threat ? If by their actions in foreign countries causing the UK to be seen as a legitimate target by terrorists, then yeah I can see the US being a ‘threat’ to the UK......but an actual ‘threat’ seems a bit silly......unless I’m missing something
 
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Lolz

The professor forgot to note that it was a sample size of 20 based in Toronto......

He didn't include China, Russia or North Korea then?

What a weird survey

So we're best off out of the EU and forming an alliance with Commonwealth countries then??
 
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