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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. bobmid

    bobmid Well-Known Member

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    That's a fair point. Seems a tad excessive.
     
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  2. Woodyhoopleson

    Woodyhoopleson Well-Known Member

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    That last sentence is profound, like a pink floyd lyric.
     
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  3. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    Facebook: Nick Clegg says 'no evidence' of Russian interference in Brexit vote
    There is "absolutely no evidence" Russia influenced the Brexit result using Facebook, the company's vice-president, Sir Nick Clegg, has said.
    The former deputy PM told the BBC the company had carried out analyses of its data and found no "significant attempt" by outside forces to sway the vote.
    Instead, he argued that "the roots to British euroscepticism go very deep".
    In a wide-ranging interview, Sir Nick also called for more regulation of Facebook and other tech giants.
    In response, Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, tweeted that Sir Nick was wrong to suggest that there was no Russian interference on Facebook during the referendum, quoting a link to research carried out by a communications agency.
    Sir Nick, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats and deputy prime minister during the coalition government, was hired by Facebook in October last year.
    In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said Facebook was now arguing for greater regulation of tech firms.
    He said there was a "pressing need" for new "rules of the road" on privacy, election rules, the use of people's data and adjudicating on what constitutes hate speech.
    It follows growing criticism of the tech giant and calls from MPs for far stricter regulation over issues including fake news, harmful content and the way user data is used.
    Asked whether Facebook should not be fixing some of these issues itself, Sir Nick said it was not something big tech companies "can or should" do on their own.
    "It's not for private companies, however big or small, to come up with those rules. It is for democratic politicians in the democratic world to do so," he said.
    But he stressed companies like Facebook should play a "mature role" in advocating - rather than shunning - regulation.
    Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson tweeted that Sir Nick's proposed remedy of an oversight committee was inadequate.
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    'Conspiracy'
    In the interview, Sir Nick dismissed claims that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica influenced people's decision to vote Leave in the EU referendum in 2016.
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    "Much though I understand why people want to sort of reduce that eruption in British politics to some kind of plot or conspiracy - or some use of new social media through opaque means - I'm afraid the roots to British Euroscepticism go very, very deep," he said.
    Instead, he argued attitudes had been influenced far more by "traditional media" over the last 40 years than by new media.
     
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  4. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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  5. Staines R's

    Staines R's Well-Known Member

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    Please tell me it is original and hasn’t been done before ?
    It’ll make me feel like the People’s Poet :)
     
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  6. Woodyhoopleson

    Woodyhoopleson Well-Known Member

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    I think I saw it once on a thought provoking poster at the gym.
     
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    Obviously written by me :)
     
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    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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    Heaven knows he's miserable now...<laugh>
     
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  9. DT’s Socks

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    Me also I have done a few plus a load of free work for the Samaritans looking back it hasn’t changed anything like I thought it would before my heart turned black

    I fully respect good causes but I am now spent so do my own thing

    It’s very hard to filter out what to do to be good

    I have a wealth of experience working with charity and nearly all have the same back end business model now ... they have had to to be fair

    Currently found one good one 4 ocean that pays fisherman not to catch fish but collect waste and all of it funded my the purchase of a simple bracket made from ocean waste

    Medicine sans frontiers another good one

    But there are more bad ones out there set up as tax dodges

    Do what you want to do but it’s a minefield
    I blame Glastonbury
     
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    DT’s Socks Well-Known Member

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    Yes that is wrong and the rest of Europe against that most outraged

    The EU will get reform certain of that

    There will always be protests about power
    My remain vote still stands for
    Future generations and the freedom to stay open and preserving the U.K. financial status

    Already it looks like the rich will get richer it has to to keep them involved in the U.K.
     
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  11. Goldhawk-Road

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    Trusting of you, Strolls. Look at what happened with the Muslim pedophilia crimes in Rotherham and other Northern towns. No one, police, social security, local councils, said a word about what was going on for fear of being accused of being racist...until it became a national scandal
     
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  12. kiwiqpr

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    Even labour mps were saying the rape victims should shut up and keep quiet
     
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  13. Sooperhoop

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    Same one that was praising Boris's neighbours. Two-faced arseholes...
     
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  14. Woodyhoopleson

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    Similarly the appeal court ruling about weapon sales to Saudi, big news, surely, but the BBC headline is about US sales to Saudi, with a 3 line paragraph near the bottom of the article, 'by the way, the U.K. Government are just as bad.' Not a peep on the radio. Naughty.
     
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    £2.4 million quid of tax payers money spent on doing up Harry and Megs country cottage......you gotta give it to ‘em...they’ve got a lot of front.

    Gawd bless ‘em
     
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    The Royals do bring in triple what they get from the tax payer mind.
     
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  17. Staines R's

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    If you are talking about tourism Col, thats a popular royalist myth that cannot in anyway be proven.

    Wilma and Earl from Kentucky would come over to see London for its historical sites, with or without those royal leeches.
     
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    So how many tourists actually get to see a member of the Royal Family? Why do tourists from around the world visit republics if having a a royal family is such a crucial factor in attracting tourists? When the Brits go to the Costa del sol do they expect to see the king of Spain? Absolutely ridiculous, tourists come to see the sights not individuals. All of which would be here if we got rid of the totally undemocratic institution that it is!
     
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  19. rangercol

    rangercol Well-Known Member

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    Look into what the Royals own and what those sites bring in.
    Undoubtedly tourism plays a part too.
    If you're anti Royal, you're anti Royal. Fair enough.
     
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  20. Staines R's

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    The thing is Col, how do they own such vast properties ?
     
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