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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 ****ing what? He had a sick child in the hospital that had been neglected. He was entitled to take the opportunity to spoil Johnson's photo opportunity.

Neglected ? If found to be true then that’s absolutely appalling and those Doctors and Nurses deserve everything that’s coming to them. However, as I’ve personally witnessed, there are always two sides to every story.
 
Having first saying he would abide by a Supreme Court decision that he prorogued parliament unlawfully, Boris submits documents to the Supreme Court (which he tries to hide from the public) where he suggests that even if found to have acted unlawfully, he would still not bring back parliament and he could just prorogue it again. This governments behaviour reminds me of Germany in the 1930's.

Seems our government was doing it in the 1930s, Os.

Ramsay MacDonald? Wasn’t he Labour? And that nice Mr Attlee?

Is this ‘that was then, this is now’ politics?

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Funny that.....Shetland has recently had a by-election, won by Lib-Dems, closely followed by SNP

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Both strong remain parties, see the Tories and UKIP did well in that constituency - not! The views of a few fishermen get the press, whilst the majority people on the islands are ignored?
 
Having first saying he would abide by a Supreme Court decision that he prorogued parliament unlawfully, Boris submits documents to the Supreme Court (which he tries to hide from the public) where he suggests that even if found to have acted unlawfully, he would still not bring back parliament and he could just prorogue it again. This governments behaviour reminds me of Germany in the 1930's.

Except that Adolph Hitler wasn't asking for a General Election, and those opposing him weren't enjoying not allowing one to take place
 
Having first saying he would abide by a Supreme Court decision that he prorogued parliament unlawfully, Boris submits documents to the Supreme Court (which he tries to hide from the public) where he suggests that even if found to have acted unlawfully, he would still not bring back parliament and he could just prorogue it again. This governments behaviour reminds me of Germany in the 1930's.

I didn't know you were that old...<laugh>
 
Funny that.....Shetland has recently had a by-election, won by Lib-Dems, closely followed by SNP

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Both strong remain parties, see the Tories and UKIP did well in that constituency - not! The views of a few fishermen get the press, whilst the majority people on the islands are ignored?


It would not surprise me to find the fishermen of the Shetlands to be in the minority.
 
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Presumably, blacking up (if that is an OK expression, probably not, eggshells!) for any reason at all, be it for fancy dress parties or whatever, is now racist, but please could someone tell me why?

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Are there any circumstances within which the perpetrator doesn’t meet the above criteria?
Rants: [HASHTAG]#YellowHammer[/HASHTAG] ate my hamster‏@uk_rants 4h4 hours ago
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Lefties apologise & are immediately forgiven.
Anyone else must be hounded from their job,
never allowed to work again,
and they must be ostracised forever.
The new rules seem a tad biased.
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Rants: [HASHTAG]#YellowHammer[/HASHTAG] ate my hamster‏@uk_rants 4h4 hours ago
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UK Rants: [HASHTAG]#YellowHammer[/HASHTAG] ate my hamster Retweeted ITV News
Lefties apologise & are immediately forgiven.
Anyone else must be hounded from their job,
never allowed to work again,
and they must be ostracised forever.
The new rules seem a tad biased.
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Absolutely, freedom of speech is now a thing of the past unless you're a virtue-signalling twat...
 
They be stupid but as mentioned just a few weeks back I thought we would get a surge
Christ they even get in that’s how nuts this country is

Is that the Royal 'We'? They are on a roll this week as Jezza sitting on the fence is really splintering his Party's arse as well as their vote...

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EU’s Free Trade Agreement With South American Countries Blocked
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The EU has been working on a trade agreement with the Mercosur countries; Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay for over twenty years. The deal has hit roadblocks today after left-wing and protectionist parties in Austria voted to reject the deal, which would wipe away the EU’s tariffs. Anti-free trade Europeans voting to keep export tariffs as high as 35% for goods such as cars and clothing…
The EU is traditionally slow at signing FTAs because all 28 disparate member states must agree, and continental, more agricultural economies tend to be more protectionist than the likes of the traditionally free trading UK. Once the UK has left the EU it will have the freedom to unilaterally cut import tariffs, without the Austrians vetoing it…
 
EU’s Free Trade Agreement With South American Countries Blocked
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The EU has been working on a trade agreement with the Mercosur countries; Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay for over twenty years. The deal has hit roadblocks today after left-wing and protectionist parties in Austria voted to reject the deal, which would wipe away the EU’s tariffs. Anti-free trade Europeans voting to keep export tariffs as high as 35% for goods such as cars and clothing…
The EU is traditionally slow at signing FTAs because all 28 disparate member states must agree, and continental, more agricultural economies tend to be more protectionist than the likes of the traditionally free trading UK. Once the UK has left the EU it will have the freedom to unilaterally cut import tariffs, without the Austrians vetoing it…

Tail wags dog comes to mind...:grin:
 
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