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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
So who was? Apart from Col as usual.

This was what I read from you....

He’s a total Churchill and believe me it’s best to put the bully on ignore ... I am enjoying it a lot better not seeing the ****e he posts

This is what ‘bully boy’ posted previously.......

Was I wrong in questioning your assumption that Col was the only one ‘getting personal’ ?

If you think I was then we’ll have to agree to differ
 
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The Remain campaign had virtually all of the political elite on it's side, Tory, Labour and LibDem. And the whole of the civil service at its disposal. Remain was the Establishment.

Leave were a rather motley crew, with Johnson/Gove not speaking to Farage's bunch.

Remain threw the kitchen sink at the campaign, including Project Fear, something of an embarrassment now that none of the catastophes warned of, actually transpired. I'd say Remain lost on the merits. In what respect do you feel Remain was incompetent?

Ah yes, Project Fear. Scandalous propaganda. Not a bit like Project Racist on behalf of the Leave Campaign, eh? We were threatened with 70 million dirty Turks invading us at any moment and treated to Nigel Farage standing in front of a poster portraying queues of Syrian refugees ready to camp in our back gardens and rape our women. The economic arguments didn't win the referendum, the racist ones did. Now I know, Goldie, that you and Col and all the other Leave voters on here are not racist, but would you not concede that it was racism that won the day?
 
i thought it was all those coffin dodging bastard old age pensioners who won the day

or all those knuckle dragging stupid uneducated people who won the day

or the millions of lazy youngsters who couldnt be bothered to vote that lost the day

now its the millions of racists who won the day

whos next
 
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At least six prominent donors to the Leave campaign have received identical death threats in the past week as part of a concerted campaign of intimidation from a group calling itself “The Real 48 Per Cent”, Guido can reveal. The chilling letters, which were typed but sent in handwritten envelopes, told the recipients: “You have stoked the fires of Brexit and led us to this moment. You can no longer be tolerated. We are coming for you. We are going to kill you”. Guido is aware of six Leave donors who have received the same letter. At least three have complained to the police. It is suspected that the sender of the letters identified the donors using this article listing the names of those who gave money to the Leave campaign. It is likely more letters were sent to other donors. The sender identified themselves as an opponent of Brexit, writing: “We were born in Britain. We live in the UK. We are European”. If you are a Leave donor who also received the letter and haven’t spoken to Guido yet, get in touch. The police would also like to hear from you…


"We have watched have you have"

What have the politicians done to the education system?
Does nobody teach these brats to proof read?
 
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This was what I read from you....

What exactly? I was replying to Ellers not you. I pointed out that it was incorrect to make a general observation when the point he had made only applied to one. You may not like the fact that I added 'as usual' but that is a statement of fact observed by many on here.

I don't know why you've quoted DT's post to me.

By the way I'm used to the normal accepted legal definition of definition of bullying. I don't recognise it from your snide persistent attack against DT. It must be a novel interpretation. Care to elaborate?
 
Ah yes, Project Fear. Scandalous propaganda. Not a bit like Project Racist on behalf of the Leave Campaign, eh? We were threatened with 70 million dirty Turks invading us at any moment and treated to Nigel Farage standing in front of a poster portraying queues of Syrian refugees ready to camp in our back gardens and rape our women. The economic arguments didn't win the referendum, the racist ones did. Now I know, Goldie, that you and Col and all the other Leave voters on here are not racist, but would you not concede that it was racism that won the day?

People voted Brexit for many reason, Strolls. Control of borders was central one, and from what I've seen, there were two aspects to this. First, security, in view of some horrific attacks in Continental Europe with terrorists moving with impunity around the Schengen Area, and Mrs Merkel taking in 1 million immigrants, mostly male and Middle Eastern/ North African, without any form of vetting. Second, the huge numbers of immigrants coming into the UK (a city the size of Birmingham every couple of years).

The British are among the least racist citizens in the world (compare our attitude to members of the EU in Eastern Europe eg Hungary). Huge numbers of immigrants have been accepted into the UK in the last 50 years. In the north of England, whole towns have been taken over by immigrants. More than a third of the population in London is foreign born. This century, Blair's government decided no cap was necessary on immigration after the former communist block countries joined the EU, and huge numbers came in, far, far greater than Blair predicted. Still, only a small group of extreme right-wing headbangers march on the grounds of race. The average British family is simply concerned about the pressure on services. They want their children to be able to find a place at nearby schools and afterwards, find a house to live in nearby. They want to be able to get to work simply, without queuing on choked up roads. They want an appointment for a doctor earlier than 5 weeks. etc... It's not racism. Nor is it racist to discuss problems that mass immigration (as opposed to simple, controlled immigration) have brought, despite the fact that the Far Left are continually trying to shut down debate and no-platform speakers with whom they disagree.

And only the sprinkling of right-wing headbangers would argue that after Brexit, no immigration should take place. Some fabulous people have emigrated to the UK. Immigration simply needs to be controlled now, that's all. And by the British Parliament, not unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
 
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Ah yes, Project Fear. Scandalous propaganda. Not a bit like Project Racist on behalf of the Leave Campaign, eh? We were threatened with 70 million dirty Turks invading us at any moment and treated to Nigel Farage standing in front of a poster portraying queues of Syrian refugees ready to camp in our back gardens and rape our women. The economic arguments didn't win the referendum, the racist ones did. Now I know, Goldie, that you and Col and all the other Leave voters on here are not racist, but would you not concede that it was racism that won the day?

Don’t you find that the line over which racism is defined has both moved considerably and become massively blurred in some instances? I would hope that we would all oppose the discrimination of somebody purely because of the colour of their skin, but it feels to me at least that the R-word has been expanded to include legitimate opposition to the infiltration into one culture of another.
 
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People voted Brexit for many reason, Strolls. Control of borders was central one, and from what I've seen, there were two aspects to this. First, security, in view of some horrific attacks in Continental Europe with terrorists moving with impunity around the Schengen Area, and Mrs Merkel taking in 1 million immigrants, mostly male and Middle Eastern/ North African, without any form of vetting. Second, the huge numbers of immigrants coming into the UK (a city the size of Birmingham every couple of years).

The British are among the least racist citizens in the world (compare our attitude to members of the EU in Eastern Europe eg Hungary). Huge numbers of immigrants have been accepted into the UK in the last 50 years. In the north of England, whole towns have been taken over by immigrants. More than a third of the population in London is foreign born. This century, Blair's government decided no cap was necessary on immigration after the former communist block countries joined the EU, and huge numbers came in, far, far greater than Blair predicted. Still, only a small group of extreme right-wing headbangers march on the grounds of race. The average British family is simply concerned about the pressure on services. They want their children to be able to find a place at nearby schools and afterwards, find a house to live in nearby. They want to be able to get to work simply, without queuing on choked up roads. They want an appointment for a doctor earlier than 5 weeks. etc... It's not racism. Nor is it racist to discuss problems that mass immigration (as opposed to simple, controlled immigration) have brought, despite the fact that the Far Left are continually trying to shut down debate and no-platform speakers with whom they disagree.

And only the sprinkling of right-wing headbangers would argue that after Brexit, no immigration should take place. Some fabulous people have emigrated to the UK. Immigration simply needs to be controlled now, that's all. And by the British Parliament, not unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

Very reasoned and reasonable, Goldie, but I was not suggesting that it is inherently racist to have concerns over levels of immigration - it isn't. My post was in response to the exchanges regarding the failure of the Remain campaign and 'Project Fear'. I was merely trying to point out that the Leave campaign had its own Project Fear - fear of immigrants. Farage's disgraceful poster was probably the single most influential element of the campaign, and it was racist.
 
Very reasoned and reasonable, Goldie, but I was not suggesting that it is inherently racist to have concerns over levels of immigration - it isn't. My post was in response to the exchanges regarding the failure of the Remain campaign and 'Project Fear'. I was merely trying to point out that the Leave campaign had its own Project Fear - fear of immigrants. Farage's disgraceful poster was probably the single most influential element of the campaign, and it was racist.

Personally, I don't like that poster, and if I knew nothing about Farage, it would not endear me to him - but not because it's a racist poster because I don't see that it is. I saw the relevance of the photograph as numbers not colour. What I don't like about it is it seeks to gain an electoral advantage using people, some of whom are in miserable situations having to leave their country through war.

I wonder how important that poster really was. It was just putting into more images what we all knew already. I can't believe there were many that looked at it and said - Hell, I didn't realise it was that bad. We'd already seen on Sky and the BBC the boats coming over the Med, the Greek beaches packed with migrants with life-jackets, the long human chain weaving its way north to Germany, Scandinavia etc and the wire fences put up by the likes of Mr Orban of Hungary.

And there was bad stuff on both sides. Remember this one?:-

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