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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)

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  • Started 9 years ago by I were right about that saddle
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  1. chdot
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  2. I were right about that saddle
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  3. chdot
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    That link should have a health warning...

    Posted 5 years ago #
  4. steveo
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    That link should have a health warning...

    Don't read the comments? I despair or I would but I've become quite numb to whole thing.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  5. LaidBack
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    This made me laugh... (and that's hard because it's gone beyond comedy :-)

    https://twitter.com/JolyonRubs/status/1114999372130004993?s=20

    "Over the last few days people have been asking me what is happening with Brexit" !!! Days???

    Posted 5 years ago #
  6. chdot
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    History

    This must become a day for renewal. Let negotiations with Europe take their course, they will not resolve the crisis at the heart of our own society.

    https://www.channel4.com/news/by/jon-snow/blogs/confession

    Posted 5 years ago #
  7. LaidBack
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  8. chdot
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    Project Fear Fake News, obviously -

    Britain’s already struggling economy would be pushed into a two-year recession by a no-deal Brexit, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/09/imf-no-deal-brexit-risks-two-year-recession-uk-economic

    Posted 5 years ago #
  9. Baldcyclist
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    Two years is much less than I fear, I suspect another 10 years of pain (for some) akin to the financial crisis.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  10. chdot
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    Like I said, fake news!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  11. I were right about that saddle
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    The prime minister of the UK of GB&NI takes a trip to ask for help from the president of France.

    [+] Embed the video | Video DownloadGet the Video Player

    Posted 5 years ago #
  12. I were right about that saddle
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  13. Frenchy
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    "The UK must now hold European elections in May, or leave on 1 June without a deal." - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47889404

    Make sure you're registered to vote, folks.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  14. I were right about that saddle
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    I'd suggest not just registering to vote but actively campaigning for your preferred political party whether or not you're a member of it.

    The system in Great Britain for European elections is pure D'Hondt so you do have to take a punt as to what the quota for a single seat is and the liklihood of achieving that. In the BBC example it's between 122,000 and 170,000 votes.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  15. chdot
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    In its defence the Telegraph said Johnson was “entitled to make sweeping generalisations based on his opinions”.

    ...

    Johnson receives £275,000 a year for his weekly Daily Telegraph column, a sum he once referred to as chickenfeed.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/12/daily-telegraph-forced-correct-false-brexit-claim-boris-johnson

    Posted 5 years ago #
  16. I were right about that saddle
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    Mitchell Stirling, a statistician from Reading, said he made the complaint because he felt “a potential prime minister shouldn’t be able to make things up in a weekly column”.

    Times have moved on, Mr Stirling.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  17. chdot
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  18. chdot
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    Tusk added: “During the European council one of the leaders warned us not to be dreamers, and that we shouldn’t think that Brexit could be reversed. I didn’t respond at the time, but today, in front of you, I would like to say: at this rather difficult moment in our history, we need dreamers and dreams.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/16/donald-tusk-chastises-meps-criticism-october-brexit-delay

    Posted 5 years ago #
  19. chdot
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  20. chdot
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    Andrew Sentance, a former member of the central bank’s interest rate-setting monetary policy committee (MPC), said: “The UK economy will be limping on for a while, until Brexit negotiations are fully resolved. I can see the UK being in this limbo-land for quite a while – certainly until the late 2020s.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/29/brexit-has-trapped-uk-in-no-mans-land-warns-top-economist

    Posted 5 years ago #
  21. chdot
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    The United Nations global poverty expert, Philip Alston, has warned that Britain’s preoccupation with Brexit will leave the country severely diminished whether or not it leaves the EU because too little is being done to alter policies driving people deeper into poverty.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/30/philip-alston-uks-brexit-obsession-will-diminish-country-says-un-poverty-expert

    Posted 5 years ago #
  22. I were right about that saddle
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    Today is the 312th anniversary of the founding of the united kingdom of Great Britain.

    God bless her Britannic Majesty and the British race.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  23. unhurt
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    @chdot not designing policies to do that would be a good Rule 2ing start...

    Posted 5 years ago #
  24. I were right about that saddle
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  25. I were right about that saddle
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  26. chdot
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    Most entertaining programme.

    Part 2 tonight.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  27. chdot
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    Never Mind the Brexits

    Posted 5 years ago #
  28. PS
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    I thought Guy V and his team came out of that documentary really quite well. Very rational. I might have to buy some of his wine.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  29. chdot
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  30. I were right about that saddle
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