Pretty pink fairy
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you need a trip to the opticians and get your head out of your arse, BYE BYE EUWhat, basically a split vote at the height of populism with plenty of Brexit misinformation
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[Politics] Brexit
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Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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you need a trip to the opticians and get your head out of your arse, BYE BYE EU
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Don’t hold your breath, comrade Corbyn might take a different tac
Baldseagull
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There is certainly room for improvement on animal welfare across the EU, but in the same manner that I am critical of the current government, and previous ones, binning them off and trying to declare West Sussex independence is not a good option. None of us think the EU is perfect, but it does provide many things of benefit to us all, it appears that negotiations are trying to retain close connections, and retain as many of the benefits as we can get away with, but without playing by all the rules. I am pretty sure banning fois gras is not going to come anywhere near a list, let alone the top end of one.
nicko31
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If the leave side wanted someone to try and pull the country together, in Boris they picked the worse possible candidate today. What we saw today was Boris's greatest hits
Baldseagull
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When the economy grows, there is more currency in it.
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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He did write a very entertaining book about the great man.
If you say so. I read this morning that in his review of the book the historian Sir Richard Evans said that it was "like being cornered in the Drones Club and harangued for hours by Bertie Wooster".
Oliver Kamm, best known as a leader writer on the (narrowly Remain) Times, describes Johnson as saying "the first thing that comes into his head. He will randomly cite names of philosophical heroes without having understood them. He is not intellectually nugatory, just idle and incompetent. Not in my lifetime has there been a politician with less substance inflicting greater national damage."
I recall a woman being interviewed on the seafront at Margate by a BBC South crew before the referendum. The lady seemed to think that the 23 June event was some sort of X-Factor spin-off and explained that she was bored with Cameron. She was voting instead for the "entertainer politician".
Meet Boris, hero of the Brexiteers, a British hero for our times.
Baldseagull
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you need a trip to the opticians and get your head out of your arse, BYE BYE EU
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Opticians don't generally perform this procedure, you should see a proctologist and get your breath checked.
beorhthelm
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maybe, maybe not, depends a lot of other factors. more money leads to inflation and growth is supposed to be calculated in real terms, without inflation.
JC Footy Genius
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Not just me ... 'He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ... this book sizzles.' The Times
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20893481-the-churchill-factor
Oliver Kamm, leader writer in the Remain supporting Times, a Labour supporter, big fan of T Blair and speaking of damage ... a huge fan of his foreign wars.
Baldseagull
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Can we agree on usually?
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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The fact that you go to the trouble of pointing out that Kamm is a leader writer for the Times and that the Times backed Remain at the time suggests you don't fully read the posts you reply to. You're right that Kamm supported the Iraq war. So did many. And so did, enthusiastically, that hero of Brexit, the joke-a-minute liar, the man who prefers smutty jokes to solid information, our nation's ambassador to the world, Boris 'dogging' Johnson. Defend him all you like.
Baldseagull
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Disappointed, listened to Boris and still can't see the sunny uplands. First five minutes he spent telling us what remainers fear, he was pretty accurate there, then said nothing to dissuade me that those fears are real and justified.
nicko31
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The outside world is perplexed like most of the country at the lack of anything of substance in Boris's speech
https://www.wsj.com/articles/brexit-heads-for-showdown-over-irish-border-1518646331
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
It was well summed up in The Irish Times - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wor...t-as-brexit-speech-short-on-content-1.3392276
On a separate note, strange how the Irish are getting ready for March 2019 at The Port of Dublin, yet nothing much is being done at Dover that needs to be- https://www.irishtimes.com/business...hecks-ahead-of-expected-hard-brexit-1.3392194
pastafarian
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A good reminder link, well posted.
A few cloud cuckoo land remainers on here(clamp Herr T) who think Brexit wont happen should read your link and take some lessons from the Irish, they appear to know full well we are leaving the EU, the single market and the customs union…….I wonder why this truth is so hard for some to comprehend.
Klaas
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Spectacularly missing the point he was making.
nicko31
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Time for a United Ireland perhaps, then we can just concentrate on keeping Scotland in the union after Brexit. Might be the best solution for you Brexiteers, your technology solution won't secure our borders from the EU, which is what you want to keep those bloody Jonny foreigners out
A United Ireland should have happened years ago.
nicko31
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Maybe its your silver bullet then. Though it would bring down the Tory government, but Brexit at any cost. Surely its worth it, isn't it?
Lincoln Imp
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You appear to have just said that various official state authorities, including whoever's in charge of the Port of Dover, don't think it's going to happen either.