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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 .
QPRCate said:
Col is not an old woman he is a man who knows his own mind and stands by it! And he is certainly no racist. He is clearly well read on the EU Brexit stuff and I for one respect him for his views.

It would appear from his comments he went against his family members with his vote, that deserves admiration at least even if you do not agree with him and his vote!
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Hi Cate,

Just want to clear up 1 or 2 points, If you read my post again I wrote that I thought Col was NOT a racist. The old woman comment I can back up but out of respect for a fellow poster I will not discuss Col at length in the third person.

I'm sure Col can defend himself if he wishes too, but I haven't actually made any attack you see. Just a gentle ribbing.

And finally for the record, as I don't think you have followed this thread very carefully, I was and will always be a "leave supporter".

I felt the record needed setting straight here as you may have the wrong end of the stick.

Rhino.
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Bush Rhino said:
Hi Cate,

Just want to clear up 1 or 2 points, If you read my post again I wrote that I thought Col was NOT a racist. The old woman comment I can back up but out of respect for a fellow poster I will not discuss Col at length in the third person.

I'm sure Col can defend himself if he wishes too, but I haven't actually made any attack you see. Just a gentle ribbing.

And finally for the record, as I don't think you have followed this thread very carefully, I was and will always be a "leave supporter".

I felt the record needed setting straight here as you may have the wrong end of the stick.

Rhino.
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I thought the 'old woman' comment was amusing and meant with respect and jest and I'm sure Col would have taken it as such, good lad that he is.
 
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Tory leadership campaign is cracking me up. Loads of clips of Gove, including from last week, denying repeatedly that he would ever be PM or want to be. Well, you may think, circumstances change, he is allowed to change his mind. Until you hear that the reason he had ruled himself out is that he himself says that he doesn't have the 'character', stamina or calmness required. I think we can all agree on that. But it doesn't matter Michael, it's your wife's character that is important by the looks of it, she's in charge.

Apparently Johnson was trying to contact May to offer to support her if she stood down before 2020. She not only declined to meet him, she didn't turn up to a pre arranged meeting with him. Beginning to like her.

I hope 'Dr' Liam Fox is prepared to wriggle a lot as he is reminded of his corrupt use of public funds to pay his mates which cost him his job (in anyone less shameless it would have cost them their career). His current tactic is to say we all make mistakes and I've apologised. I hope I remember to apologise net time I'm caught out being corrupt.

Can't remember who the other two are. Oh yes, Angela Lansbury and Stefan Lobster. Apparently Lansbury abstained on the gay marriage act because she couldn't vote against something that made some gay people happy, but she couldn't vote for something that went against 'the sacred concept of marriage'. I do love a conviction politician, just what we need right now. Lobster is clearly the 'well, why the **** not, if I don't get it this time at least people will know who I am' candidate.

No need to take the piss out of the Labour situation, they are doing a great job of that themselves.
 
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sb_73 said:
Beginning to like her.
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I will remember those lines. I know these people and i know exactly what will happen. She didn't get the nickname Teresa 'deport' May' locally for nothing. She is a hardline Tory who has been held back, kept in line. Notice she was in 'Remain' camp but kept quiet. She was always a Eurosceptic and once she gets PM the real TM will come out.
 
ELLERS said:
I will remember those lines. I know these people and i know exactly what will happen. She didn't get the nickname Teresa 'deport' May' locally for nothing. She is a hardline Tory who has been held back, kept in line. Notice she was in 'Remain' camp but kept quiet. She was always a Eurosceptic and once she gets PM the real TM will come out.
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Let me qualify Ellers. She is a frightful Tory witch, but better than the alternatives from a non Tory perspective given what the country is facing at the moment.
 
sb_73 said:
Let me qualify Ellers. She is a frightful Tory witch, but better than the alternatives from a non Tory perspective given what the country is facing at the moment.
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ELLERS said:
I will remember those lines. I know these people and i know exactly what will happen. She didn't get the nickname Teresa 'deport' May' locally for nothing. She is a hardline Tory who has been held back, kept in line. Notice she was in 'Remain' camp but kept quiet. She was always a Eurosceptic and once she gets PM the real TM will come out.
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This. Best choice for the country seeing we are obliged to have a Conservative until there's a General Election.

I'm waiting for ID cards and the Snoopers Charter to be revisited - in the interests of state security, obviously. Not that I should be objecting. After all, if I've "got nothing to hide"... :emoticon-0138-think
 
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sb_73 said:
Tory leadership campaign is cracking me up. Loads of clips of Gove, including from last week, denying repeatedly that he would ever be PM or want to be. Well, you may think, circumstances change, he is allowed to change his mind. Until you hear that the reason he had ruled himself out is that he himself says that he doesn't have the 'character', stamina or calmness required. I think we can all agree on that. But it doesn't matter Michael, it's your wife's character that is important by the looks of it, she's in charge.

Apparently Johnson was trying to contact May to offer to support her if she stood down before 2020. She not only declined to meet him, she didn't turn up to a pre arranged meeting with him. Beginning to like her.

I hope 'Dr' Liam Fox is prepared to wriggle a lot as he is reminded of his corrupt use of public funds to pay his mates which cost him his job (in anyone less shameless it would have cost them their career). His current tactic is to say we all make mistakes and I've apologised. I hope I remember to apologise net time I'm caught out being corrupt.

Can't remember who the other two are. Oh yes, Angela Lansbury and Stefan Lobster. Apparently Lansbury abstained on the gay marriage act because she couldn't vote against something that made some gay people happy, but she couldn't vote for something that went against 'the sacred concept of marriage'. I do love a conviction politician, just what we need right now. Lobster is clearly the 'well, why the **** not, if I don't get it this time at least people will know who I am' candidate.

No need to take the piss out of the Labour situation, they are doing a great job of that themselves.
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You're right about Gove's wife, the journalist Sarah Vine, wearing the trousers. She works for the Daily Mail, which has come out firmly for Theresa May. Expect a job move soon...
 
Had to laugh at The Sun headline today, 'Brexecuted'. That said, Gove has shown a side of him that is pretty contemptuous and very sly. It looks like it is 'on a plate' for 'Thatcher Lite', no doubt she'll flex her muscles once she gets her kitten heels under the table...
 
Here's what Anne Marie Trevelyn, Tory MP for Berwick on Tweed (me neither) has to say about Gove:

"He is one of the greatest intellects I have met, certainly of our generation. He has an extraordinary integrity and a radical reforming agenda which I wholeheartedly support. His one nation Conservatism and his determination to empower those who are in the least comfortable circumstances in life is very much what brought me into politics."

Wow Anne Marie, one of the greatest intellects you have ever met? You need to meet a few more people. I hope you are speaking for your own generation, not mine. Extraordinary integrity? The integrity of someone who stands in front of a bus declaring £350m a week more for the NHS for months, then says it will be £100m if we are lucky?

Until yesterday morning she had declared for Boris, presumably because of his even more profound intellect and bulging integrity glands. And apparently she also likes Theresa May. Good job Genghis Khan isn't standing........
 
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TheBigDipper said:
This. Best choice for the country seeing we are obliged to have a Conservative until there's a General Election.

I'm waiting for ID cards and the Snoopers Charter to be revisited - in the interests of state security, obviously. Not that I should be objecting. After all, if I've "got nothing to hide"... :emoticon-0138-think
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You may want to add Hadrian's wall to that list. Fortunately, the Welsh voted with the English or we'd be re-digging Offa's Dyke
 
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