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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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That link should have a health warning...
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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.
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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???
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History
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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.
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Project Fear Fake News, obviously -
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Britain’s already struggling economy would be pushed into a two-year recession by a no-deal Brexit, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
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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.
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Like I said, fake news!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In its defence the Telegraph said Johnson was “entitled to make sweeping generalisations based on his opinions”.
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Johnson receives £275,000 a year for his weekly Daily Telegraph column, a sum he once referred to as chickenfeed.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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@chdot not designing policies to do that would be a good Rule 2ing start...
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Just as well them foreigners can't speak English, yeah?
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Most entertaining programme.
Part 2 tonight.
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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.
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Serious admission of failure?
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