Off Topic EU Elections

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Nellie Furtado?

 

Theres always a smear campaign going on, that's how our politics work and that's what makes it all the more frustrating, annoying, tedious and quite pathetic. Its Farages turn at the moment most likely to the relief of Jeremy Corbyn! I know for a fact that I had different views on things when I were younger and some of them not so nice. Times change, people make mistakes, many get wiser and the world keeps turning. I personally think Farage is an absolute tool but if it wasnt him, it would be someone else!

 

I’m really struggling to think of a relatively well-known footballer with NF for initials.

 

Exactly.

 

bloody brexit party with their overseas donations

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bloody leavers with their dodgy donations

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People’s Vote Accept Offshore Donation in Euros From Vladimir Putin

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Currently Alastair Campbell is on Twitter blowing a gasket about how using Paypal foreigners could fund the Brexit Party. He is demanding the BBC cover the story. Nick Robinson this morning asked Richard Tice about it without any evidence of any foreign funding.
This site’s editor is currently sat in sunny Waterford, Ireland. He is a foreign national. He just went on the People’s Vote website and made a donation:

1. To make the donation anonymous he gave the name Vladimir Putin.
2. He used a Euro card from a bank based in Germany.
3. It went through without any identity checks in seconds.
4. The editor checked the € account online, the £1 donation cost €1.14.

Alastair Campbell’s People’s Vote welcomes offshore donations:

 

Labour Slapped With Record Fine Over Inaccurate Donations

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The Labour Party has been slapped with a record fine of £12,000 by the Electoral Commission for failing to declare its donations accurately. The Electoral Commission said it was the “highest fine we have issued for an offence of this kind” and added that “as a well-funded political party [Labour] should be able to meet its legal requirements”. If this was the Tories or a pro-Brexit campaign it would be all over the media…

 

Luckily you were able to pick up on it, though.

 

The thing with Labour is that, as a lot of their funding comes via the unions, it’s probably the easiest major party to launder improper donations. Stick it through the unions first.

 

yes
very fortunate indeed

 

A friend of mine actually went to school with Corbyn and he was well known for supporting Stalin, organising May Day parades and singing songs about sending dissidents to the Gulag (to the tune of “Come Into The Garden, Maude”). Apparently, his headmaster raised concerns about Jeremy’s tendency to eat borscht all the time. Other sources close to Jezza’s, however, described all of the above as ‘fabricated bollocks’.

 

Regarding the EU? I think that Brexit voters have been betrayed by Parliament, and even though I voted the other way (if the referendum was held now I wouldn’t vote, my views on politics have changed somewhat, driven by disgust at what we are experiencing) we have to leave, and the pathetic game playing by politicians means that a clean break is the only option. Needs to happen now. Not saying the results will be good, but it’s a question of trust.

On a larger scale I think that the bile being spat over Brexit is just a proxy for much deeper issues and divisions we have, which won’t go away no matter what we do with the EU. I suspect/fear we are due a bout of right or left wing populism which will make everything worse.

I can’t see any realistic solutions, I’m afraid. Plenty of unrealistic idealistic ones though.

Judging by what is on this thread and the politics one I’m glad I’m out of the country.

 

We’re in Manchester for our final #Remain rally! We will be live tweeting the whole event.

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what an uplifting final rally to be at

 

brexit partys final rally

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After Matt Kelly’s tasteless tweet, this looks more like a Remains Party than a Remain Party gathering.

 

How many Parliaments actually accept MPs into their midst who actually want to destroy that same institution, without asking for the taking of any kind of oath first ? In order to prevent future UK Brexiter MEPs causing undue disruption, would it not be a good move for the EU Parliament to introduce a requirement for new MEPs to take an oath of allegiance before taking their seats ? Many countries in the World do this for their national parliaments - including the USA and the UK.

 

In addition to my last post. It is perfectly reasonable to presume that MPs sitting in a Parliament have a commitment to that institution - if they do not then they have no right to be there. By all means support Brexit if you wish but electing MEPs whose only aim is to disrupt proceedings when there, does nothing other than damage the image of Britain even further than it is damaged already. By voting for the Brexit Party you are sending people to work in an institution which they would happily destroy.

 

The eus not a country
Yet
Where would this oath be given more importance
In the country they are from
Or
To the eu