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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. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    What's the obsession with tax returns
    Why has everyone else published theirs
    Can we demand to see anyone's
    Where's Tony's
    Anyone not pay less tax if they could

    And as for your Windows problems SB
    I once made them wait 45 minutes while I ate my dinner
    Kept telling them I couldn't get into my computer
     
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  2. ELLERS

    ELLERS Well-Known Member

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    Some interesting points here today.
    I heard about May wanting Gove to win as she will beat him. One MP basically said that yesterday and it was fair game.
    We need to produce our own stuff and export rather than import. We have sh2t on our farmers/ fisheries over the years as well as our other industries. Agree these will take time to grow (sorry for play on words) but we need to think long term now we have left the EU :emoticon-0173-middl
    Finally the Euro/Dollar changes all the time. I said yesterday it was only 2-3 years ago it was 1 euro to the pound, and we were in the EU. As for the US dollar, check out the 7 year chart as it's not been good for a long time. Only went up high due to Brexit but was a false position (that's from Bloomberg).
    As for tax returns, i agree what's the fuss? It's just another way of putting down a candidate. For me Andrea would bring the country together whereas May would make it more divided.
     
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  3. ELLERS

    ELLERS Well-Known Member

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    Tell them you have a Mac or you don't own a PC. It's a con as Microsoft would never call you like that.
    or if all fails do you Mrs Ellers did and tell them to f2ck off and put the phone down.
     
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  4. Stroller

    Stroller Well-Known Member

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    That's interesting - one of her supporters on Newsnight last night said that she had managed a team of 3,000 (or was it 300?). Whatever, she seems like a thoroughly nasty piece of work and probably has some skeletons hidden away.
     
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    I usually string them along a bit, when I'm in a better mood. Today I hit the 'don't take the piss, **** off' button within 10 seconds.

    Yes, currency exchanges fluctuate, and the £ was probably over valued anyway. Doesn't make it any less painful paying London prices for a beer in Spain. A couple of years ago when the $ was over $1.70 to the £, I was like a mule on work trips to the States bringing back clothes, tech etc for family and friends. So at least my bag is going to be lighter now. If the currency stays low or lower we will see the inflationary effect in the autumn I suppose.

    Polls showing that in EU countries with a big Eurosceptic element - Denmark, Sweden, Finalnd, Italy - desire to leave the EU/ have their own referenda has plummeted as they watch Brexit play out. Actually think this could be bad news, as it may make EU reform harder.

    In a better mood now as some good news from daughter.
     
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  6. TootingExcess

    TootingExcess Well-Known Member

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    Also, Goodnight Sweetheart is coming back for a one off special - so things arent as bad as those moaning minnies would have us believe!
     
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    Live BBC reaction feed on the Chilcot Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-36714717

    Hardly worth reading, as I can summarise it simply as "seven year waste of money tells us nothing we didn't already know..."

    Blair lied about the presence of WMD, he was plotting the invasion of Iraq less than a month after 9/11, he promised the US that the UK would be 'with them, whatever' - something he did not repeat to Parliament - and regarding the legality of the war, in Chilcot's words: "...the circumstances in which it was decided that there was a legal basis for UK military action were far from satisfactory."

    Alastair Campbell - the chief spin docrot paid to paint this clusterf**k as a moral imperative, is trying to blame the BBC for not investigating their claims further, and has actually said that "Had they done so, David Kelly would almost certainly be alive today". Disgraceful.

    Meanwhile, in other news, over 150,000 Iraqi citizens, 179 British soldiers, all remain dead....
     
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    In a weird way, i used to love watching Goodnight Sweetheart. Always thought it was a bit of a sh2t ending though. Let's hope they don't ruin it.
     
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    Shares AND Stg falling, I wonder what the FT and WSJ says the reason for that is?
     
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    And the 3 leaders from the right who did most to generate this disaster Cameron, Farage and Johnson all quit within days of the vote. Johnson and Farage had big mouths rubbishing what was there, but had absolutely nothing to deliver themselves.
     
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    Since Cameron uttered the immortal words "Brits don't quit" nearly everyone has done just that, including himself. Mr Corbyn however...

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    has clearly got 2 more than the other 3 strung together.
     
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  13. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    Always one fool running around looking for a lifeboat instead of getting off as quick as possible
     
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    I am delighted they quit, and I reckon Corbyn will soon, now he's had his chance to rubbish Blair for a bit.
     
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    Raggetty and Jessica Fletcher it is then. Great
     
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    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    So what happens if Tory MPs end up with the one over 60% of them didn't vote for? Are we allowed to call them New Labour?
     
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    They reckon Leadsom is more popular with the members so it may be a close-run thing...
     
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  19. QPR999

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    It's as bad as Trump v Clinton.

    Theresa May looks like a real life Spitting Image puppet. If the show returned they could just use her real head.
     
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    Obama to the rescue!! He's on his way to Europe to save the world, tho' not going to the UK>
     
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