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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 .
I got bored after the first 30 secs. Another remoaner that cannot accept the result. surely you have something different than the usual carp? I need to be engaged not lectured to. Owen Jones article was more interesting.

Thanks for the warning, Ellers. For an Owen Jones article to be more interesting, the other piece has got to be a suicidal read.

Owen Jones? I’d gladly throw him off the top of a tall building. Ghastly little gobshite.
 
Yes, he's gone, but I think this is quite revealing as to exactly why he had to go, and I think it speaks to the competence and judgment of our Prime Minister that she was supporting him right up to the moment he stepped down. I'm sure if there are Labour people even more vile than Toby Young, you or Kiwi will come up with all we need to know about them. I'm just trying to provide some balance. :emoticon-0148-yes:

As to the economy, do you mean the UK economy that is already growing at a slower rate than the rest of the EU, even before we feel the full effects of Brexit?
jared o mara
 
We could have one every five years, and if we don't like the result of the previous one, change all the personnel that make all the decisions. Then, when they've lied to us for five or ten years, change them all over again...it's the will of the people remember, unless.the people change their.minds.
why dont the people who are elected by the people to make decisions make them
could they not decide on the eu
 
M&S food sales slide over Christmas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42646021

Cost savings prop up House of Fraser despite weak Christmas
https://www.ft.com/content/b9e7d8b4-caed-30b7-8e33-9f90f17a0b87

Not so good for these 2 though. I went in M&S before I went away, the food looked nice and packaged well but was a bit expensive. I noticed the shop was full of older people. Both need to appeal more to a wider population or they will fall
m and s should start selling cauliflower steaks
 
Yes, he's gone, but I think this is quite revealing as to exactly why he had to go, and I think it speaks to the competence and judgment of our Prime Minister that she was supporting him right up to the moment he stepped down. I'm sure if there are Labour people even more vile than Toby Young, you or Kiwi will come up with all we need to know about them. I'm just trying to provide some balance. :emoticon-0148-yes:

As to the economy, do you mean the UK economy that is already growing at a slower rate than the rest of the EU, even before we feel the full effects of Brexit?

how about keith vaz
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Keith Vaz - Too ill to be investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Office, but well enough to chair the Yemen Parliamentary Group.
 
jared o mara

Excellent research Kiwi. O'Mara posted some unpleasant tweets and was suspended from the Labour party, but he really isn't in Young's league in that regard. Plus he was a teenager when we posted them - Young was in his forties. Worse than Young's juvenile tweets though, are his support for Eugenics and the fact that he considers education to be wasted on the lower classes.
 
how about keith vaz
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Keith Vaz - Too ill to be investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Office, but well enough to chair the Yemen Parliamentary Group.

More fine research Kiwi, but *****phile politicians - really? There would be a very long list of Tories that you could post some stuff on if you chose (I can't be arsed). Unfortunately, Theresa May 'lost' the files on them.
 
Excellent research Kiwi. O'Mara posted some unpleasant tweets and was suspended from the Labour party, but he really isn't in Young's league in that regard. Plus he was a teenager when we posted them - Young was in his forties. Worse than Young's juvenile tweets though, are his support for Eugenics and the fact that he considers education to be wasted on the lower classes.
i must admit to having no idea who toby young is or what he said

is omara still in parliament
 
We could have one every five years, and if we don't like the result of the previous one, change all the personnel that make all the decisions. Then, when they've lied to us for five or ten years, change them all over again...it's the will of the people remember, unless.the people change their.minds.

We could call it an 'election'...
 
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Excellent research Kiwi. O'Mara posted some unpleasant tweets and was suspended from the Labour party, but he really isn't in Young's league in that regard. Plus he was a teenager when we posted them - Young was in his forties. Worse than Young's juvenile tweets though, are his support for Eugenics and the fact that he considers education to be wasted on the lower classes.
O'Mara was accused by Sophie Evans, a Sheffield bar worker whom he had met through an online dating app, on BBC Two's Daily Politics of having "made transphobic slurs" towards her in March 2017, and of saying in the same incident that she was an "ugly bitch
 
young sounds like a juvenile
he looks like a celebrity chef
i will look up claudia winkleman myself strols

Writing on Tuesday, Young said: “The caricature drawn of me in the last seven days, particularly on social media, has been unrecognisable to anyone who knows me.” But he conceded: “Some of the things I said before I got involved in education, when I was a journalistic provocateur, were either ill-judged or just plain wrong – and I unreservedly apologise.”
Besides the judgment of the prime minister, Young’s decision to resign also called into question that of some of the most senior members of the cabinet – including the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and the environment secretary, Michael Gove – who had defended him.
In an interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC on Sunday, May appeared to back Young. But she warned that any future offensive language would result in him being “no longer … in public office”.
 
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M&S food sales slide over Christmas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42646021

Cost savings prop up House of Fraser despite weak Christmas
https://www.ft.com/content/b9e7d8b4-caed-30b7-8e33-9f90f17a0b87

Not so good for these 2 though. I went in M&S before I went away, the food looked nice and packaged well but was a bit expensive. I noticed the shop was full of older people. Both need to appeal more to a wider population or they will fall
Since hitting 40 I buy more and more stuff in M&S. Rock and Roll <wah>