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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

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    Keir Hardie will be spinning in his grave, especially if Sir Keir wins...
     
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  4. GoldhawkRoad

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    Glad the presenters explained it was the wrong picture for Sturgeon. I was wondering how the cameraman caught her outdoors with her clothes off
     
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  5. GoldhawkRoad

    GoldhawkRoad Well-Known Member

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    Just to look at those crowds, you can tell they're all racists, waving the union flag to make the black American paraded before them as uncomfortable as possible
     
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  6. Stroller

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    The Tories are the party of the old.
     
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    Not in my experience.
     
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  8. kiwiqpr

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    Former Speaker John Bercow claimed £1,000 taxi fare
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    Former Commons Speaker John Bercow spent £1,000 on a taxi fare and £12,000 on leaving parties for staff in the run-up to his retirement.

    Mr Bercow, who stood down before the election, also spent £7,000 on a US visit in his final months in the job.

    His expenses were obtained via a Daily Mail Freedom of Information request.

    A Commons spokesman said the 260-mile round trip from London to Nottingham, in April, was made by taxi rather than train for security reasons.

    Mr Bercow, who was accompanied by an aide, travelled to Nottingham to deliver a speech at the Political Studies Association annual conference.

    The speech was about how Parliament should respond to the "anti-politics age" and what the Parliament of the future might look like.

    The taxi is reported to have stayed in the city during the speech, which was followed by a drinks reception.

    Mr Bercow had travelled from London to Nottingham by train in 2018, for a meeting of the UK Youth Parliament, at a cost of £70, according to earlier Freedom of Information disclosures.

    "Due to heightened security concerns for the safety of MPs, Mr Bercow was advised it was safer for him to travel to Nottingham Trent University by taxi, rather than by train," said a Commons spokeswoman.

    Leaving parties
    In May 2019, Mr Bercow spent £7,000 on a visit to Washington DC, to deliver a speech on the "role of Parliament in today's Britain" to a think tank, a trip that also took in Virginia and Boston.

    The former Speaker's expenses also included a £118-a-month Sky TV subscription for Speaker's House, the apartment within the Palace of Westminster where Mr Bercow lived with his family.

    The biggest expense in the final months of Mr Bercow's nine-year tenure as Speaker was staff leaving parties.

    The £12,000 bill included an invoice for £3,168 for a retirement party for Speaker's chaplain Rose Hudson-Wilkin.

    Rather than retire, she became the Bishop of Dover.

    Mr Bercow also spent £2,376 on a retirement party for the Commons invitations secretary in February, and a month later another £3,187 for a formal farewell to Clerk of the House David Natzler.

    In May, the Speaker's official account spent £3,696 on giving the principal clerk of the Table Office a send-off.

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    A Commons spokeswoman said: "The Speaker's Office has funded retirement receptions for senior staff many times in the past."

    Before standing down on 31 October, Mr Bercow used his official account to settle a £234 drinks bill at a reception for the Panel of Chairs - MPs who help him oversee Parliamentary debates. He also spent £560 on lunch for his counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

    The Speaker is not subject to the same rules on expenses as other MPs, whose claims for food and drink are capped.

    Mr Bercow has faced scrutiny over his expenses in previous years - in 2018, he spent £13,000 on an official visit to Canada and a similar amount in 2014 on a trip to Australia.

    The former Speaker has signed up to a public speaking agency since retiring from the chair. He has also made a number of lucrative media appearances, including as a pundit for Sky News on general election night in December.

    His successor as Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has vowed to bring a "different style" to the job.
     
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  9. Turkish" Premier" Hoops

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    I’m afraid your very wrong, my daughter and several of her friends, all under 25 by the way, all voted for their local Tory candidates, the demographic is changing, Liebour is no longer the working classes party, they are now the liberal lefty elitist party, the Tories will always gain votes from the younger generation as more and more of them go against the hereditary voting patterns of their forefathers and they make their own minds up.
    More and more of them are through education becoming middle class rather than working class as each generation betters itself and they begin to realise they don’t need the party that their parents and grandparents relied on to better their lot, they will begin to vote more and more for the party to continue bettering their lives as each generation becomes better off and richer.
    Union membership has more than halved in the last generation as the elders of the liebour party, once staunch union folk die off, its called evolution old chap and unfortunately for themselves Labour haven’t evolved much from the what they were, and what they set out as at the turn of the last century, the leaders are all now millionaires and most have never had a job in their lives, they have become the party of
    “Do as I say, not as I do”
    They no longer represent the people that needed them all those years ago, they now just represent the Islington liberal left.
     
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  10. kiwiqpr

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    i hope heads roll

    Victoria Agoglia: Manchester girl died amid grooming scandal ‘cover-up’
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    The authorities and police had opportunities to investigate the abuse of girls as young as 12 in Manchester but failed to do soAlamy
    Police and social services in Manchester knew that gangs of Asian men were grooming and exploiting dozens of children in “plain sight” but failed to act against them, a report has concluded.

    A report into how the authorities in Manchester handled child sexual exploitation has detailed how Victoria Agoglia, a 15-year-old girl under the care of the city council, had told carers that she was being raped, assaulted and received visits from her “pimp” at her accommodation but was not protected by her guardians.

    Victoria also disclosed to her social worker and a substance misuse worker that she was being injected with heroin by an older man but no action was taken. She died in September 2003, five days after being injected with the drug…

    Continue reading
     
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  11. Stroller

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    Check the voting demographics.
     
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  12. Star of David Bardsley

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    No. Fat Ian down the Horse and Crown voted Tory and he wins the pub quiz every week.
     
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    Fortunately it’s a fact, Col.
     
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    Boring.... is this post mortem still going on!
    It's quite simple chaps
    Labour were unelectable. Corbyn was unelectable. It doesn't matter what pigeon hole you try to put people in, people could see the options and the best option won....get over it. It's like Brexit! Some just cannot accept a result.
     
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    I can accept the result. It’s still dim of factory workers in ****hole towns to vote Tory.
     
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    It wasn't just factory workers. I know plenty of teachers, businessmen and even NHS workers. It would be stupid and disrespectful to say a 'certain type' voted Tory. One of my closest mates is a life long Labour voter but voted Tory because he hated Jezza.
    It really was an easy choice. Still laugh at all those who actually believed Corbyn would win. :emoticon-0110-tongu
     
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    There was a clear disparity by age and level of education though.
     
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    You would never have wanted that idiot Corbyn to win. The bloke would have ruined this country. Fortunately the thick factory workers could see this and went for Boris
     
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  20. Star of David Bardsley

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    Maybe. Just saying there was a very clear disparity in voting by age bracket and education. Col doesn’t like this for some reason.
     
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