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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 .
ELLERS said:
We don't need to be discussing my love for a good Hockney Watford.
As for Germany, I will indeed be happy to discuss their behaviour in another conversation as I witnessed first hand this very subject. I also spent time discussing things with the locals and was amazed at some of the responses.
However getting back to the languages... I don't see how 'arrogance' or 'isolationism' is why we are generally not good at languages. I think that is too easy to say. It goes deeper than that.
I saw the report yesterday about the falling studying of languages for EU countries. I also saw a rise in Chinese.., that tells its own story? Even the young have worked out that is where future business ls? :1980_boogie_down: Anyway I got to get back to painting my swimming pool blue.
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Hockney is there a good one ?
Does the swimming pool double up as a sheep dip?
I visited Dalí at Figueres at the weekend
Bloke’s jewellery est tip top
Bloody Hockney
 
The £740bn Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund is going to invest more in British assets, looking for a return in a 30 year time span. It already owns Regent Street and a chunk of BP and HSBC. They say it’s a decent bet whatever the Brexit outcome.

Arguments ensue over whether this is a vote of confidence in the UK and it’s ‘free markets after Brexit’ (Jacob Rees Mogg) or a reflection that British assets are cheap and could offer good returns once the dust has settled. Who knows?

I’m more interested in the Soveriegn Wealth Fund itself. It is the Norwegian government’s official state pension fund, created from their oil and gas profits, for the benefit of Norwegian citizens. Many countries with oil and gas reserves have soveriegn wealth funds. Why the **** don’t we? How exactly have British citizens benefited from 50 years of North Sea oil? Where has the money gone? Answers on a postcard.
 
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In 2011 Tom Parker Bowles, stepson and godson of Prince Charles, delighted his surrogate dad by setting up Mr Trotters Great British Pork Crackling, because he was (quote) ‘incensed’ that most pork scratchings sold in the UK was made from Danish pig skin. The selling point was his support for outdoor reared British pigs and their tasty skins.

The firm has recently been forced to divulge the source of its ingredients through the Happerly scheme, which some retailers insist on, which requires producers to be transparent about the stuff they use so we consumers know what we are eating. Turns out their pig skins are Danish, Dutch and German, and they are unable to confirm the welfare of the animals concerned, saying some might live their entire lives indoors.

I try not to be cynical, but ****ers like this make it really hard.
 
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sb_73 said:
In 2011 Tom Parker Bowles, stepson and godson of Prince Charles, delighted his surrogate dad by setting up Mr Trotters Great British Pork Crackling, because he was (quote) ‘incensed’ that most pork scratchings sold in the UK was made from Danish pig skin. The selling point was his support for outdoor reared British pigs and their tasty skins.

The firm has recently been forced to divulge the source of its ingredients through the Happerly scheme, which some retailers insist on, which requires producers to be transparent about the stuff they use so we consumers know what we are eating. Turns out their pig skins are Danish, Dutch and German, and they are unable to confirm the welfare of the animals concerned, saying some might live their entire lives indoors.

I try not to be cynical, but ****ers like this make it really hard.
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Meat Means Murder !!
 
Net migration to the UK from outside the EU has risen to its highest level since 2004, whilst numbers from within the EU continue to fall. To put it in generalised UKIP terms, white Eastern European people are going home and are being replaced by brown people from Asia. Still, they knew exactly what they were voting for.
 
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sb_73 said:
The £740bn Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund is going to invest more in British assets, looking for a return in a 30 year time span. It already owns Regent Street and a chunk of BP and HSBC. They say it’s a decent bet whatever the Brexit outcome.

Arguments ensue over whether this is a vote of confidence in the UK and it’s ‘free markets after Brexit’ (Jacob Rees Mogg) or a reflection that British assets are cheap and could offer good returns once the dust has settled. Who knows?

I’m more interested in the Soveriegn Wealth Fund itself. It is the Norwegian government’s official state pension fund, created from their oil and gas profits, for the benefit of Norwegian citizens. Many countries with oil and gas reserves have soveriegn wealth funds. Why the **** don’t we? How exactly have British citizens benefited from 50 years of North Sea oil? Where has the money gone? Answers on a postcard.
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The SNP used this as a selling point in the Independance Referendum, promising to set up a similar fund from North Sea oil & gas production. Great idea, pity they didn't have a scooby what to do about the currency/defence/border (sound familiar) - actually glad they didn't win now, as based on the shambles of Brexit and seeing how politicians cope with great change **** only knows what would've happened.
 
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Steelmonkey said:
The SNP used this as a selling point in the Independance Referendum, promising to set up a similar fund from North Sea oil & gas production. Great idea, pity they didn't have a scooby what to do about the currency/defence/border (sound familiar) - actually glad they didn't win now, as based on the shambles of Brexit and seeing how politicians cope with great change **** only knows what would've happened.
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Bit late to set one up now.
 
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Stroller said:
Net migration to the UK from outside the EU has risen to its highest level since 2004, whilst numbers from within the EU continue to fall. To put it in generalised UKIP terms, white Eastern European people are going home and are being replaced by brown people from Asia. Still, they knew exactly what they were voting for.
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Just read this. Also interesting is that most of these non EU migrants are coming to join family or even more to ‘study’, not to work.

Still, we can put a stop to it any time we want. Or so I’m told.
 
Steelmonkey said:
The SNP used this as a selling point in the Independance Referendum, promising to set up a similar fund from North Sea oil & gas production. Great idea, pity they didn't have a scooby what to do about the currency/defence/border (sound familiar) - actually glad they didn't win now, as based on the shambles of Brexit and seeing how politicians cope with great change **** only knows what would've happened.
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If they had at the time won their referendum the subsequent collapse of the oil price would have basically bankrupted them, lucky escape...
 
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The £740bn Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund is going to invest more in British assets, looking for a return in a 30 year time span. It already owns Regent Street and a chunk of BP and HSBC. They say it’s a decent bet whatever the Brexit outcome.

Arguments ensue over whether this is a vote of confidence in the UK and it’s ‘free markets after Brexit’ (Jacob Rees Mogg) or a reflection that British assets are cheap and could offer good returns once the dust has settled. Who knows?

I’m more interested in the Soveriegn Wealth Fund itself. It is the Norwegian government’s official state pension fund, created from their oil and gas profits, for the benefit of Norwegian citizens. Many countries with oil and gas reserves have soveriegn wealth funds. Why the **** don’t we? How exactly have British citizens benefited from 50 years of North Sea oil? Where has the money gone? Answers on a postcard.
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Keeping income tax at a low while finding the money needed by increasing VAT and NI contributions so that successive governments can bribe voters to vote for them - it certainly hasn't been invested in 21st century improvements in levels of public service but I dare say there are plenty in the City who've reaped the rewards of that so-called oil wealth. Then again, expect we've paid our way to fund pointless wars at the behest of our friends in America.
 
Stroller said:
Net migration to the UK from outside the EU has risen to its highest level since 2004, whilst numbers from within the EU continue to fall. To put it in generalised UKIP terms, white Eastern European people are going home and are being replaced by brown people from Asia. Still, they knew exactly what they were voting for.
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Is there a hint of racism there, Strolls? QPR is owned by brown people from Asia
 
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Stroller said:
Net migration to the UK from outside the EU has risen to its highest level since 2004, whilst numbers from within the EU continue to fall. To put it in generalised UKIP terms, white Eastern European people are going home and are being replaced by brown people from Asia. Still, they knew exactly what they were voting for.
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Exactly as I predicted earlier in this thread. Will be plenty of voids to fill
 
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