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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 .
Staines R's said:
But then isn’t it for us as individuals to make our own choices and do our own research to decide what’s fake and what’s real ?
Am I giving the run of the mill member of the public too much credit ?

Saying all that, I did have a ‘conversation’ with a patients friend last week who was trying to tell me Hitler was actually a good man......:(
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You would like to think so mate yes. I will never forget the decorator on a site I met who cited his reason for voting leave was so we could get rid of all the muslims! The ironic thing is, a bad brexit would affect people like him the most. Sometimes i actually hope that these people reep what they sow!
 
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Staines R's said:
But then isn’t it for us as individuals to make our own choices and do our own research to decide what’s fake and what’s real ?
Am I giving the run of the mill member of the public too much credit ?

Saying all that, I did have a ‘conversation’ with a patients friend last week who was trying to tell me Hitler was actually a good man......:(
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Tbf theres so much fake news nowadays i don't know what to believe. Irrespective of it being the russians, the americans, msm, etc etc.

Think people make a big hoo har about russian interference as if normal people dont go spreading round fake news.

Just this board alone ellers knows every person under the sun and unfortunately i believe (even if tongue in cheek) our good man bob is responding the same
 
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bobmid said:
You would like to think so mate yes. I will never forget the decorator on a site I met who cited his reason for voting leave was so we could get rid of all the muslims! The ironic thing is, a bad brexit would affect people like him the most. Sometimes i actually hope that these people reep what they sow!
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We need a ‘Workers Brexit’.......For the many, not the EU ;)
 
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bobmid said:
All the UK intelligence are remainers, MI6 officers and former officers, well known to be remainers and definately all 3rd party experts voted remain! It's not worth the paper it's written on! It's so easy to label it as remain scaremongering tactics that Borisov best sit on it!
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Of course they are MI6 can’t operate without Europe ... There has been noises coming from there for the last three years.
Hopefully it’s all beginning to add up now that the 2016 referendum was undermined.
 
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BobbyD said:
Tbf theres so much fake news nowadays i don't know what to believe. Irrespective of it being the russians, the americans, msm, etc etc.

Think people make a big hoo har about russian interference as if normal people dont go spreading round fake news.

Just this board alone ellers knows every person under the sun and unfortunately i believe (even if tongue in cheek) our good man bob is responding the same
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I dont know half as many people as the slippery Eel. Wish I did have a mate for every occasion.
 
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DT’s Socks said:
What gets my goat is that the sheep readily eat Corbyn red biscuits but when offered a blue biscuit they feel a little bit sick

Vote Labour regardless of Corbyn I say
The Cons won’t change jack ****
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Eh ?? I’m voting Labour BECAUSE of Corbyn, not in spite off.
Get one of those middle ground Blairites in charge like Thornberry or Starmer and I’m off.
 
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Staines R's said:
Eh ?? I’m voting Labour BECAUSE of Corbyn, not in spite off.
Get one of those middle ground Blairites in charge like Thornberry or Starmer and I’m off.
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Starmer seems a very sensible bloke. Who would you vote for in that instance?

I’m still undecided but as Ellers reminds me three times a day it’s a safe blue seat anyway. The tactical voting thingy says Labour. The Brexit policy is a sound one and might just swing me away from the LDs.
 
West WindsR said:
Starmer seems a very sensible bloke. Who would you vote for in that instance?

I’m still undecided but as Ellers reminds me three times a day it’s a safe blue seat anyway. The tactical voting thingy says Labour. The Brexit policy is a sound one and might just swing me away from the LDs.
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Labour for me but my area is a safe labour seat anyway.
 
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West WindsR said:
Starmer seems a very sensible bloke. Who would you vote for in that instance?

I’m still undecided but as Ellers reminds me three times a day it’s a safe blue seat anyway. The tactical voting thingy says Labour. The Brexit policy is a sound one and might just swing me away from the LDs.
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Well my first choice would be TUSC or Socialist Party if they were standing.....with Starmer in charge I couldn’t see myself voting Labour. Probably wouldn’t bother or vote independent, depending on their views.
 
DT’s Socks said:
What gets my goat is that the sheep readily eat Corbyn red biscuits but when offered a blue biscuit they feel a little bit sick

Vote Labour regardless of Corbyn I say
The Cons won’t change jack ****
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But Boris will win so what’s the point?
 
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Extraordinary how Keir Starmer keeps saying “protect workers’ rights and environmental standards” to mean “let the EU decide these things for us in perpetuity”.
When did Labour lose confidence in its ability to do these things itself?
 
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