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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. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    How many beers in Col?

    Affect how? I already have an EU migrant living next door to me, and a non EU migrant next door to them. I hear Eastern European languages being spoken every time I walk the dog. Warwick University is a couple of miles away, the town is home to hundreds of foreign students, many Chinese. As you may have noticed after the little local difficulty, we have one of the biggest Sikh temples in the country. There is a row of building down by the river which houses the Royal Navy Association, the Sea Cadets, a canoe club, a mosque and the Irish Social Club (mostly a bar), which I rather like. Leamington Spa is hardly a melting pot, but it's much more ethnically mixed than Didcot, I've just looked it up (we have 50% more people not calling themselves 'white British' than you). I'd have to experience not being able to see my doctor because of numbers, or my son not being able to find a job (he has two now) to tell you whether I'd blame the immigrants, the EU, or the government. One guess.

    How has immigration affected you and your family?
     
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  2. danishqp

    danishqp Well-Known Member

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    Durbar, do not put a penny on it mate.
    There is one thing the Danes love and that is the highest standard of living.
    They've done even better out of The EU than The Germans have.
    They know how to play The game in Europe.

    On a side note and name dropping as per , was in the delightful company of Stephen Kinnock's much, much,much better half Helle Thorning Yesterday evening ( a work thing :-()Now she is thinking Mans crumpet :)
     
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  3. TheBigDipper

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    I became very frustrated pre-referendum at the people who didn't notice or care that we weren't meeting our self-imposed targets for non-EU immigration levels. It didn't bode well for our ability to do better if we left the EU and potentially controlled the lot, yet, for some of them, immigration was their understandable overriding reason for voting "leave". (I'm being consistent here, BTW, I understood why some people were unhappy about immigration - I just felt the UK government(s) deserved the blame, not the EU).

    So, we'll never know why Mrs May was unable to meet her targets as Home Secretary. We'll just have to hope her new job permits her to overcome whatever stopped her previously.
     
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  4. sb_73

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    Did you give her the full Don Juan?
     
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  5. kiwiqpr

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    Third runway at Heathrow cleared for takeoff by ministers

    i thought someone on here said no decision was to be made for at least a year
     
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  6. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    This is at least the third time a government has given the technical go ahead for this. Still years of legal and planning stuff to go, don't hold your breath.
     
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    Sober now. Getting ready to go out for dinner.

    Stan..........

    Immigration hasn't affected me and my family directly, as far as I know and yes, there are very few immigrants where I live (I don't live in Didcot).
    It has affected my country imo and I know that's where we part company even more.
    I'll leave it mate as I'm bound to get painted as a huge racist who hates all foreigners and all immigrants.
    I've spelled out on numerous occasions what I think on these issues and I'm not going to get embroiled in it all again.
    I'm off now to mix with some very friendly Germans, Dutch and Gran Canarians.
     
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    QPR Oslo Well-Known Member

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    A year ago perhaps?
     
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  9. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    Ditherer May puts back Heathrow decision by another year, now its 50 years since they started talking about this.

    no
    was posted on october 19th
    so may can make some quick decisions
     
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  10. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    You know I won't be doing the painting mate, I know you just look at things from a different perspective to me. It's all based on personal experiences. Enjoy your cosmopolitan evening.
     
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    I bored her with a story of previously living opposite her sister in law in Kilburn, that her father in law was a gentleman in person and asked her if Obama had the star quality up close.Probably ruiner the moment when I pointed out the irony of not being able to vote in any country.
    Christ, reading back, when did I become so boring!,,,!,
     
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  12. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    You can usually date it from either when you first got a mortgage or had your first kid.....23 years of terminable dullness in my case.
     
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    so thats 2000 kid or 2004 mortgage
     
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    Speaking to my family and friends when I visit they are not a happy bunch especially with all the immigrants arriving. They are also not happy the the Government now either.
     
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    Just to get a bit of perspective here on immigration and population density, the highest in Europe is not England, not the Netherlands, and not the South East of England. It is the German state of Nordrheinwestfalen (North Rhine Westphalia), which is around the same size as the Netherlands and has a population density of 524 per square km. Of these 22.6% are of immigrant origins and 10.6% without German citizenship - this does not include the 2 million or so descendents of earlier Polish migrants to the Ruhr - who now are just Germans with funny Polish sounding names.
     
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    Either I'm being thick and missing something or your maffs is dire.
     
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    23 years of terminable dullness in your case
    you never said if that was 23 years since your first mortgage or child

    using the new stan rule or being a boring fart i became one in either 2000 first child
    or 2004 first mortgage

    i had to move here to get a mortgage as where i lived in w14 was never going to be affordable
    or anywhere else back then
    what with my piss poor wages and a monumental drinking habit to feed

    not that im counting but its been 56 days since my last drink
    back to hospital for the next round of prodding and poking and injecting in a couple of hours

    not that im counting

    ramble ramble
    blah blah blah
     
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    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    Thought you were referring to me.....good luck with the hospital, hope it's working.
     
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  19. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    cheers mate
    steroid injection today
    if this dont work it will be the knife for the back

    considering i had less pain in the same place 4 years ago and the only option was an op i am not holding out much hope today will fix anything
    but hey
    what do i know
     
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  20. KooPeeArr

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    Fingers crossed anyway mate.
     
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