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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. Lawrence Jacoby

    Lawrence Jacoby Well-Known Member

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    English people on average don’t buy German cars with their own money for a start
    If the economy falls just a little then you may find money costs more to finance as borrowing may go up. Average household debt in the U.K. is on a knife edge it’s a vicious circle i’m afraid imo

    The second hand car market however could boom however so it maybe swings and roundabouts. New car sales all hinge on new technology anyway as it rapidly heads towards electric. We don’t make that much electric at the moment and buy a lot in from France. It all looks like price increases to me

    There may be a surplus of German cars all with the steering wheel on the wrong side of course ... the very reason I brought a Porsche that cost £106k when new for £12.50.
     
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  2. kiwiqpr

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    is the labour party going to eat itself

    Four more Labour moderates quit Haringey as Momentum marches on in London
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    Four more Labour moderates have quit Haringey Council
    Three Labour councillors from the same Haringey ward today blamed a “poisonous” climate of “anger, cynicism and distrust” as they simultaneously quit in response to an attempted Left-wing takeover of the town hall.
    A fourth councillor, in a neighbouring ward, also announced his decision to step down ahead of threatened deselections.
    So far 17 have either withdrawn or been deselected by activists and Haringey is poised to become the first council to be run by Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum group after borough elections in May.
    In a joint statement, Jason Arthur, Natan Doron and Sarah Elliott, who represent Crouch End, said: “We do not believe that our views will be heard with an open mind, nor our track-record assessed in a fair manner...
    "The current climate of Haringey Labour politics feels factional and poisonous — anger, cynicism and distrust now shape too many debates within the local party.”
    The bitter dispute between centrist and Left-wing party members has its roots in the authority’s decision to set up the Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV) — a £2 billion transfer of council assets to a 50-50 partnership with Australian developer Lendlease.
    The council has said the partnership is the only way it can afford to build 5,000 new homes in the borough.
    Council leader Claire Kober last night broke her silence on the deselections, tweeting: “Sad times. Three talented councillors who’ve made a huge contribution since 2014.”
    Labour MP Caroline Flint tweeted: “Purging of decent hardworking councillors is bad for @UKLabour, bad for democracy and bad for local communities.”
    Councillor James Patterson, who has announced his withdrawal from Alexandra ward, said Momentum was using the HDV as a “Trojan horse” and flagged up the Eighties war between Labour moderates and Militant, which led to the expulsion of Liverpool’s hard-Left deputy council leader Derek Hatton: “Given their tactics to date, I can only imagine that a local authority they controlled would be like Liverpool council during Derek Hatton’s heyday.”
    Momentum said “it’s no secret” that activists are appalled at the council’s plans to push through HDV.
    Labour grandee Roy Hattersley said Momentum posed a far more serious threat to Labour than Militant did thirty years ago.
    He urged members to “challenge the subversion” and fight for democratic socialist values, adding: “The threat to Labour’s future is real and obvious.” Tonight Haringey council meets in full to discuss a key stage in the roll out of the HDV scheme.
    A row erupted in Watford with claims that Corbyn supporters are trying to ensure their ally, Unite’s Mike Hedges, becomes Labour’s candidate for the seat in the next general election.
     
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  3. Lawrence Jacoby

    Lawrence Jacoby Well-Known Member

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    Nope I love the NHS they recently cut half a pound out of cancer out of head. Brilliant
    However did witness 12 people cleaning out a cupboard one day and none of them knew what to do with the contents . The next day it was resolved with a sign on the door saying do not store anything inside this storage cupboard.

    I’m not worried at all as I fly back for treatment in London for £5 ... go into moorfields as my eyes are falling out then fly back. Totally entitled as I pay my taxes

    French system possibly better had 50 stitches out in my front room and cost me € 3 last year. Oh and they look after their old folks without a hint of profit, with the added bonus that you live 15 years longer
     
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  4. Lawrence Jacoby

    Lawrence Jacoby Well-Known Member

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    Well they can try
     
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    The only drinkable beer it has is Guiness.
     
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    JACOB Rees-Mogg perused lithographs showing the bare ankles of Victorian strumpets in his constituency office, it has been claimed.


    The Tory MP has denied all wrongdoing, claiming the 19th century prints with titles including Gentlemen’s Relish and The Coquettish Ones must have been left on his desk by a cleaner.

    However a police spokesman said: “There were thousands of these faded lithographs showing stuff from flashes of ankles to glimpses of bare elbow during a tennis game.

    “There was even one of an unmarried woman talking to a Welshman. Not really what an MP should be looking at whilst in the workplace.”

    Onlookers reported seeing box after box of lithographs being removed from Rees-Mogg’s office, along with a fur-lined chastity belt and a DVD of I, Daniel Blake.
     
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    Hope you remain in remission......................................................................................





















    You ****er!
     
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    He is on a wind-up.
     
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  9. Lawrence Jacoby

    Lawrence Jacoby Well-Known Member

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    Nope 100% true
    Plus had all my ops without any anaesthetic as my mother died at 53 under the stuff
    Yep it bloody hurt
    The NHS missed a couple of bits
    Moorfields however brilliant people
     
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  10. Lawrence Jacoby

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    Get well soon yourself x
     
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    You ever played the Withnail & I drinking game? Tried a few times, never made it to the end - you have to take a drink everytime they do (you don't have to drink the **** they do though - you'd end up blind!) - it's a real challenge <cheers>
     
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    Fashion & makeup tips for the discerning Corbynista!
     
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    Accuracy alert:

    As slipped in to the budget speech by Philip Hammond, the U.K. is now the world’s SIXTH biggest economy, having fallen behind FRANCE. This is attributed to the slow down (projected to continue) in British economy growth since the Brexit vote, coupled with continued rising growth in other major economies.
     
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    I can never hear what this bloke is actually saying over the shouting and being distracted by the sunglasses at night look.
     
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    Yes, a slightly annoying character, but quite funny (and accurate).
     
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    David Davis has just told the Brexit Parliamentary Committee the the economic impact assessments by sector, which he said there were 54 of a few months ago and which Parliament asked to see, don’t exist. Presumably he couldn’t be arsed to ask someone to do it for him. And it’s probably a good idea not to bother, who wants to worry about the future which hasn’t even happened yet?

    What a spectacular, lazy, incompetent, smirking quitter this bloke is. But he’s the best we’ve got! Apparently.
     
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    I turned off after 20 sec because he was shouting. I could not understand him and his diction was terrible. Another wannabe social media politician.
    Muppet
     
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  19. Lawrence Jacoby

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    Come on France
    I am going to be rich
     
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  20. Lawrence Jacoby

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    Come on France
    I am going to be rich
    U.K tenth by 2019?
     
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