Brexit: the referendum

Information Analyst said:
I daresay it's a lot more than the £100 I was going to get for appearance in a low-budget daytime BBC documentary (until I experience my own "W1A moment"). In Pearson's case, one wonder how someone like her can be in receipt of so much money, yet still manage to piss it all up the wall.
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Well from what I've read it was quite simply that she was avoiding tax and when HMRC caught up with her she was up the creek without a paddle.

It's that more than anything that winds me up about the Brexit campaign. The sheer hypocrisy and downright dishonesty of everything they say. They think the rules are for others and they should be allowed to do whatever they like.

Railing against the pressure on local services from immigrants when they themselves are incomers to where they live

Parroting about money that could be spent on the NHS when they themselves would support drastic cuts to NHS funding

Decrying scroungers and immigrants as leeching from the system but not paying their own bloody tax to support the country and system they claim to want to protect

Not one of them is motivated by anything other than pure bloody selfishness. Vile vile human beings. How anyone could vote for them is beyond me.
 
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I don't think they're said it directly as a policy statement, but certainly individuals have said things along the lines of, "That's money we could be spending on the NHS" without any further qualification. Certainly it's rare to hear them saying, "we could be spending it on X, Y, or Z."
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That rather seems to be the implication of
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I also know, via feedback from a complaint, that the NHS have asked them to stop using their logo without permission. Characteristically they did not listen to the NHS.
 
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EU referendum: Brexit would see UK excluded from single market, German finance minister warns.

“At some point the British will realise they have taken the wrong decision,” he added. “And then we will accept them back one day if that’s what they want.”

However, he said that a vote to Leave would send shockwaves around the EU, and could encourage other member states to consider leaving the bloc.

He said the EU would not necessarily respond to Brexit by integrating more quickly, but would consider reforms to address the concerns of Eurosceptic citizens.
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The Telegraph / MSN News

The readers comments in the MSN article are negative, as expected, but looking at Der Spiegel's Facebook page, the comments from Germans themselves are just as bad.

The things they call The EU and Merkel!
 
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The UK government can't in practice use the nuclear option of a veto. The EU has been in disarray for a long time. It has been suggested that the European Parliament should have more power to make decisions, and stop just being a talking shop of empty waffle, but I don't think change or reform is possible because of orders from Google. I don't know who my MEP is and I have certainly never been in communication with him. I have certainly never had any communication with the European Commission behind closed doors.

I became disenchanted with football about fifty years ago when British scumbag football hooligans started rioting, before and after, football matches on continental Europe. British journalists always say they are provoked, which frankly, I don't believe. The British hooligans just like the violence and the alcohol. That's why England is no longer allowed to host football tournaments. French people don't riot and cause criminal damage when they come to England for a football match. Plus ca change if you pardon my French.

There is a bit about this matter in that Geoffrey McDermott book I mentioned earlier published in 1969:

"Since then it has been non, non et non at intervals from the General. Is he not justified in many ways? Do the British behave like Europeans when they are on the continent? What about our drunken gangs loose on their day trips to Ostend or Calais? How many of us speak a single continental language? A large advertisement warns us that one family in three faces 'a ruined holiday abroad' because of diarrhoea caused by dirty foreigners. I have been behind the scenes at one of London's most expensive restaurants and I should without fail take my Entero-Vioform before eating there. How many demand their cups of tea and chips in Pisa or Algarve?
 
Henri McPhee said:
The UK government can't in practice use the nuclear option of a veto. The EU has been in disarray for a long time. It has been suggested that the European Parliament should have more power to make decisions, and stop just being a talking shop of empty waffle, but I don't think change or reform is possible because of orders from Google. I don't know who my MEP is and I have certainly never been in communication with him. I have certainly never had any communication with the European Commission behind closed doors.

I became disenchanted with football about fifty years ago when British scumbag football hooligans started rioting, before and after, football matches on continental Europe. British journalists always say they are provoked, which frankly, I don't believe. The British hooligans just like the violence and the alcohol. That's why England is no longer allowed to host football tournaments. French people don't riot and cause criminal damage when they come to England for a football match. Plus ca change if you pardon my French.

There is a bit about this matter in that Geoffrey McDermott book I mentioned earlier published in 1969:

"Since then it has been non, non et non at intervals from the General. Is he not justified in many ways? Do the British behave like Europeans when they are on the continent? What about our drunken gangs loose on their day trips to Ostend or Calais? How many of us speak a single continental language? A large advertisement warns us that one family in three faces 'a ruined holiday abroad' because of diarrhoea caused by dirty foreigners. I have been behind the scenes at one of London's most expensive restaurants and I should without fail take my Entero-Vioform before eating there. How many demand their cups of tea and chips in Pisa or Algarve?
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Orders from Google

Awesome
 
News this morning suggests the Remain fantasy narrative is being ridiculed by increasing numbers .
Brexit campaigners have been boosted by a new poll giving the Leave camp a 10-point lead.

The survey by ORB for The Independent put the scores at 55% to 45% in favour of pulling out of the European Union, after allowing for an individual’s likelihood to vote.
It is likely that any final figure of around 60% will significantly promote the EU to break up as several other nations then choose to return to a better sanity .
 
Henri McPhee said:
British scumbag football hooligans started rioting, before and after, football matches on continental Europe. British journalists always say they are provoked, which frankly, I don't believe. The British hooligans just like the violence and the alcohol. That's why England is no longer allowed to host football tournaments.
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That's the sort of expression that makes many Scots more content to remain in the partnership of the EU than in the merged unity of the UK, where we can casually be informed that "England" has been sanctioned because of the bad behaviour of "British" hooligans.

What was the nationality of these hooligans?
 
Henri McPhee said:
The EU has been in disarray for a long time. It has been suggested that the European Parliament should have more power to make decisions, and stop just being a talking shop of empty waffle, but I don't think change or reform is possible because of orders from Google.
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WTF...?
I don't know who my MEP is and I have certainly never been in communication with him.
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So? I've only ever contacted by own MP once, and that's a damn sight more than most people do. Oh, and if you don't know who your MEP is, whose fault is that? It's hardly restricted information.
I have certainly never had any communication with the European Commission behind closed doors.
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So?

I became disenchanted with football about fifty years ago when British scumbag football hooligans started rioting, before and after, football matches on continental Europe. British journalists always say they are provoked, which frankly, I don't believe. The British hooligans just like the violence and the alcohol. That's why England is no longer allowed to host football tournaments. French people don't riot and cause criminal damage when they come to England for a football match. Plus ca change if you pardon my French.
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Where were you in 1996?
 
Information Analyst said:
WTF...?

So? I've only ever contacted by own MP once, and that's a damn sight more than most people do. Oh, and if you don't know who your MEP is, whose fault is that? It's hardly restricted information.

So?


Where were you in 1996?
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I refer you to Lothian's post #990
 
CapelDodger said:
"Come home to a real fire - buy a cottage in Wales".

"Come home to a real fire" was a marketing slogan for the solid fuels industry and the rest wrote itself, really.
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That's what I was trying to recall... but CBA to google for - cheers.
 
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