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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

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    The Tory party is like living with an abusive spouse.
    I promise I’ll be better next time *Punch*
    No, next time, absolutely, better *Kick*
    We need some trust in this relationship *Bashes head against wall*
     
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    Cheeky blighter!
     
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    Yanarta Min

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    Penalty for Illegal Entry.
    Singapore: 6 months prison + three strokes with a cane.
    Russia: 2 yrs in a labour camp.
    Pakistan: 10 yrs prison.
    India: 8 yrs prison.
    N.Korea: Death.
    U.K.: Free housing, healthcare, clothing, food, education, a job if you want it - money if you don't.
     
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    Are those genuine clips from the Sharpe series, or have they been bastardised?
     
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    Mock the week axed by the BBC, despite still comparatively high viewing figures. This not long after The Mash Report. I'd be looking over your shoulder if I were you Have I Got News For You.

    Guess our uncultured Culture Secretary is making progress with her evil schemes.
     
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    I've enjoyed Mock The Week, but it's an old format and the BBC say they are stopping production after 17 years to make way for new programmes.

    I can't see this decision has anything to do with Nadine Dorries. Do you have any evidence that it does?
     
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    This government and its supporters such as yourself have conducted a sustained attack on the BBC for many years. They installed Tim Davie, a significant Tory donor and former Tory council candidate, as Director General in 2020 and the dropping of programmes such as the Mash Report and Mock the Week, which they view as being critical of the government, is the result. I find the BBC news and current affairs output to be so pro-Tory now that I avoid it.as much as I can.
     
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    Could it be that impartiality is returning to the BBC and that's why you don't like it? All the leftie activists like Sopel, Maitlis and Marr have gone and now push their doctrine on the likes of LBC. Former Labour party activists like Lewis Goodall are staying with Newsnight "for now".

    I always thought Mock the Week was pretty generous in taking the piss out of all politicians. HIGNFY though is incredibly left wing orientated. In recent years, virtually everyone that came on were Left..

    A publicly funded broadcaster has to be impartial, there's no question. I don't want any political party given an easy ride or, on the other hand, targetted for doctrinal reasons. So for the BBC it's "get your house in order" or lose taxpayers money and compete with all the rest out there in a dog-eat-dog world.
     
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    The BBC was impartial, it isn't any longer.
     
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    It hasn't been impartial for years, and most journalists acknowledge that.
     
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    brexit 2.0
     
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    The RNLI, BF and the RN have been meeting French boats in the middle of the channel and taking on board their cargo of illegal immigrants. If the British boats didn't meet them, what would happen, surely the French boats would have to take them back to France. Win, Win.
     
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    Liz Truss? This Liz Truss?
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    That's Margaret Thatcher. Pay attention
     
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