"Only £2.50."
Presumably free to just turn up outside and protest? If cycling there, even save the bus fare...
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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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I'm tempted.
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The continuing political mess over Brexit is a “crushing disaster” for business in Britain with investor confidence at the lowest since the financial crash a decade ago, the Confederation of British Industry’s director general has said.“
So, don’t leave, leave with a/the deal, leave with no deal.
Then reset and it’ll all be alright??!
Meanwhile nothing much at UK Gov level has been achieved in last 3 years.
And ‘trust in politicians’ has reduced further.
But no real appetite for anything much different apart from ‘more of the same’ - which for many people may now be even more difficult.
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There are real and interesting conversations to be had about sovereignty and nationhood and cooperation and autonomy and solidarity but not with that man.
He's just a smoke grenade thrown through the window of our democracy by people who do not care for us.
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Irish journalists now clearly contemplating the prospects of bordering a failed state.
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In the speech May said delivering Brexit had been “even harder than I anticipated”, adding: “I have tried everything I possibly can to find a way through.”
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The end of May is coming. Even the timelords can't deny that.
Meanwhile I expect Scotland will carry on maintaining its relationship with Europe.
(We do buy one brand of bike direct from Taiwan but we deal with manufacturers on EU mainland a lot. If there was a border at Carlisle that wouldn't be good but would expect big companies in England to continue trading just as Taiwan does. Better to have single market everywhere close by).Brief history of why Scotland is a European country.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17652796.hamish-macpherson-scotlands-always-been-for-europe/Posted 5 years ago # -
It's all so awful and complicated and terrifying now. It's like they hate us and want us to suffer but only slightly more than they hate themselves and wish themselves to suffer.
This is surely how states begin to fail, when the centre appears to be trying to make things worse, not just carelessly or for a minority, but expressly and for most people.
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Hope everyone will be able to use their vote. Just under two hours to go. Of course Scotland won't have results till Monday due to Western Isles count not being done on the Sabbath. Results from rUK will be in after 10pm when polls elsewhere in EU have closed.
Some reports coming in that EU citizens are having trouble voting in some places in UK.
Ballot box at City Chambers was very full at 5pm. Turn out up maybe?Posted 5 years ago # -
is there a good reason why the count cannot be made (and sealed) before Sunday?
Or is it more than no one can be trusted not to leak results in our age of always-on smartphones!
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“Or is it more than no one can be trusted not to leak results in our age of always-on smartphones!”
That will be a fact(or).
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Netherlands also voted today.
Ireland/Eire and Czech Rep votes tomorrow.
Malta, Latvia and (another part of?) Czechia Saturday.
Rest of EU on Sunday.
Edited as realised ITN had got info wrong.Posted 5 years ago # -
Queues to vote at the Norton Park Polling Place this evening, and apparently also this afternoon. I'm taking that as a good sign.
Lots of younger folk out voting, not very many over 50s. Perhaps also a good sign?
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Ballot boxes rammed with votes in Balerno, some youngsters, one asked me should I not be wearing a helmet. I said possibly as I was being nice given she had returned from town to vote (friend of eldest daughter's who had done The same and of course drink my liquor)
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one asked me should I not be wearing a helmet
On safety, medical or fashion grounds?
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“or fashion grounds?”
gembo?
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"On safety, medical or fashion grounds?"
Privacy.
If you wear one then random strangers don't feel the need to provide you with snippets from their inner monologue.
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Ian Dunt described the podium as "The lectern of infinite crisis".
May dreadful, replacements almost certainly worse.
Going to be a hard few years (I try not to think too hard about the long term at times like this. 'Despair is not a strategy' and all that.)
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"Live each day as though it were your last".
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Man in helmet says
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UK will leave EU in October, deal or no deal
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Giving ‘cyclists’ a bad name?!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/25/moderate-tories-launch-stop-boris-johnson-campaign
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The only thing we can be sure of is that things will get much worse. Much worse.
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