Noticed this on the BBC website this morning....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/36700018
Brexit?
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We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
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Nothing but "the immigruntz" as reasons for leaving. It really makes me sad. I had hoped that people were better than this.Hom_Corleone wrote:Noticed this on the BBC website this morning....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/36700018
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It would appear 52% of people are mean spirited and selfish Mark. It's very saddening as you say.
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As the day is long.
As the day is long.
Another worrying thing
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Does she live under a rock?but the 21-year-old is unemployed. She didn't vote in the referendum. She says she didn't know much about it and was waiting for a leaflet to come through her door.
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&Dawn didn't vote at all. She says she was too busy.
These people have absolutely no right whatsoever to complain about anythingMany of the people the BBC meets on the streets of Harehills and Hovingham did not vote. Some were not eligible, but others say they never bother.
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Re: people never having voted: I found all the malarkey about the pencils in the polling booths quite telling.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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As much as i'm for do someting instead complaing, so vote when you have right to do so, i still can't find any good reasoning for such statements. People can complain even when they didn't vote, their moral grond are smaller but they still have right to complain.Pista wrote:These people have absolutely no right whatsoever to complain about anything
Fair enough, but I don't see it that way.Bartek wrote:As much as i'm for do someting instead complaing, so vote when you have right to do so, i still can't find any good reasoning for such statements. People can complain even when they didn't vote, their moral grond are smaller but they still have right to complain.Pista wrote:These people have absolutely no right whatsoever to complain about anything
These people are afforded all the rights of being a UK citizen which include a democratic right to have a voice, albeit a small one.
They have chosen not to use that voice, so they should zip it & deal with it.
Much in the same way the UKIP morons should have STFU on EU matters that they couldn't be bothered to debate or vote on.
They have waived their right as far as I'm concerned.
That's all true; they could have use their voice by voting, yet they didn't lost their voice to comment by not doing this.
But it's all true everyone (both sides) have to deal with that situation.
As i see this, UK is in some people's eyes almost as Germans at the beginning of WWI.
But it's all true everyone (both sides) have to deal with that situation.
As i see this, UK is in some people's eyes almost as Germans at the beginning of WWI.
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,,,, the Germans had the Schlieffen Plan at start of WWI
UK has no plan for exit from EU.
UK has no plan for exit from EU.
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i presume he means the second world war, as at the start of the first world war germany was no better or worse than this country. both were just imperial wankers spoiling for a fight to decide who was the hardest.
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"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
Not really, after WWI almost everyone in UK loved Germans and Germany, thus so many pubs had "Fritz" or similar germanophile words in their tafels, when war was started all turned completely other way.
I believe more and more for each day passing, that there is never going to be a Brexit. If the "Leave Tories" are serious about Brexit, they must all vote for Leadsom, but I see no signs of that happening. If they just want to continue complaining about the EU without actually leaving it, they should vote May, which most of them probably will.
That's slightly childish; but on the other hand, some see UK as only country that can stop EU from implementing "irrational" law, prevent from what other countries can (because they don't have enought diplomatic and/or political, and/or economic power).
Yet, I would like to see that UK gonna say officially: we are about to leave EU/ We are going to stay and member of EU.
Yet, I would like to see that UK gonna say officially: we are about to leave EU/ We are going to stay and member of EU.
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Yeah I think you're right.euphoria wrote:I believe more and more for each day passing, that there is never going to be a Brexit.
Whoever wins the Tory leadership is going to end up screwed either way. Either put Article 50 into action, and tank the UK economy even further, making the Tories unelectable in 2020... or refuse, prompting back-bench rebellion and mass defections to UKIP, making the Tories unelectable in 2020.
OK, Boris will probably swoop in as the "saviour of the party" before then, but hopefully he won't make too much difference to the self-inflicted disaster they'll face in four years' time.
The only problem is, by 2020 it'll be too late to fix a lot of the damage.
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So far, only one "good" thing that came up after referendum is making Ballard's nightmare come true - nationalistic based attacks on foreing minoritires.
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Funny, the longer it takes, the more certain it seems to me that Brexit is becoming a fact ... and if only to prove that democracy it the most important value to adhere to at any rate ... ....euphoria wrote:I believe more and more for each day passing, that there is never going to be a Brexit. If the "Leave Tories" are serious about Brexit, they must all vote for Leadsom, but I see no signs of that happening. If they just want to continue complaining about the EU without actually leaving it, they should vote May, which most of them probably will.
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and in the meantime will we have acquired a "decent" opposition, with cohesion, policies and public support? i fear for the future because i doubt it.markfiend wrote: The only problem is, by 2020 it'll be too late to fix a lot of the damage.
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
& Nexit in NetherlandsDrsisters wrote:They already speaks of Swexit in Sweden ^^
Then fuck you all, you degenerate lunatics out there.
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AgreedBartek wrote:Then fuck you all, you degenerate lunatics out there.
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BoJo as foreign secretary ?!
That'll learn himrobertzombie wrote:BoJo as foreign secretary ?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UwJHE282d8
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i have a nasty smell of collusion/secret deals/treachery hanging around
I don't wanna live like I don't mind