Cable Forum - Brexit

House flipping on their second home allowances and 'employing' a family member on public funds can be very profitable for our squeaky clean MPs. Not pretending the EU are any better, but neither are we.

Language like 'disgusting pricks' used in an above post just devalues the UK, and we won't be taken seriously by anyone. We can look forward to more of that if we elect Farages muppets. It's the language of hate, and if we make decisions based on that, we're done for.

papa smurf

15-05-2019 15:32

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Brexit Party formed in Welsh Assembly 'with IMMEDIATE effect' - Tory and Ukip members QUIT

FOUR Welsh assembly members (AMs) have sensationally joined the Brexit Party “with immediate effect” to give Nigel Farage’s party their first political representation at a national level.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...david-rowlands

denphone

15-05-2019 15:42

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35994958)

This will cheer you up even more.;)

European Parliament voting intention:

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BREX: 30% (+3)
LAB: 24% (-3)
CON: 12% (-4)
LDEM: 11% (+3)
GRN: 6% (+2)
CHUK: 4% (-)
UKIP: 4% (-3)

via @Survation, 08 - 09 May

papa smurf

15-05-2019 16:39

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35994960)

This will cheer you up even more.;)

European Parliament voting intention:

via @Survation, 08 - 09 May

One of the chunkies has jumped ship and gone to the lib dumbs
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...sh-eu-15990956

denphone

15-05-2019 16:45

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35994967)

One of the chunkies has jumped ship and gone to the lib dumbs
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...sh-eu-15990956

That is entirely his prerogative.

Hugh	15-05-2019 16:52

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35994958)

Good old reckless Mark - never saw a bandwagon he didn’t want to jump on...

Pre-2014 - Conservative
September 2014 - defects to UKIP
April 2017 - defects from UKIP to Conservative Group
April 2019 - defects from Conservative Group
May 2019 - defects to Brexit Party

Mick	15-05-2019 17:06

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It’s called politics Hugh.

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Originally Posted by Mythica (Post 35994938)

Didn't really answer the question rather than just having a rant.

Tough. Your question was nonsensical, as we are not in any other union. :rolleyes:

jonbxx

15-05-2019 17:40

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Originally Posted by Mythica (Post 35994929)

You keep calling it the corrupt EU, is nowhere else corrupt that we would be trading with outside the EU?

I decided to do a bit of data mining on how corrupt the EU is as Transparency International publish a global index each year and you can download the complete data set (here - https://www.transparency.org/files/c...ullResults.zip) and have a tinker..

The least corrupt nation globally is Denmark and the worst is Somalia. The UK is in joint 11th place behind 6 EU countries, 2 EFTA countries and New Zealand, Singapore and Canada.

For reference, the USA is in 22nd place and China is in 87th place.

There is a tab in the data set to filter just on EU countries. For EU countries, of course Denmark is the least corrupt. The UK is in 7th place and the most corrupt is Bulgaria which is in 77th place globally. If you average out the scores, if the European Union was a country, it would be in 29th place globally, between the Bahamas and Portugal.

The EU score seriously get dragged down by countries such as Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria!

Of course what isn't in this data set is the EU as an organisation so we will need to take Micks word for it that the EU is corrupt as an organisation

Mr K	15-05-2019 17:41

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Good News. Chlorinated chicken will be coming out way soon ! Enjoy.

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The UK could accept chlorinated chicken in a post-Brexit trade deal with the US without cutting food standards, Liam Fox has claimed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8914621.html
Me and Mick are vegetarians, so we're alright.:)

Hugh	15-05-2019 18:11

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35994973)

It’s called politics Hugh.

---------- Post added at 16:06 ---------- Previous post was at 16:04 ----------

Tough. Your question was nonsensical, as we are not in any other union. :rolleyes:

I don’t recall any other politician being in 3 different parties in just over 2 years...

papa smurf

15-05-2019 18:16

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35994987)

I don’t recall any other politician being in 3 different parties in just over 2 years...

It's called trend setting Hugh.

Sephiroth

15-05-2019 18:29

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Originally Posted by Carth (Post 35994918)

UK economy growth up 0.5%

going by the usual stat lovers on here, does that mean we're better than Germany?

It possibly means that our panic buying was 4/5 from Germany and 1/5 from elsewhere.

Angua

15-05-2019 19:37

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Originally Posted by jonbxx (Post 35994889)

What is interesting is that there does seem to be some news optimisation shenanigans going on. My phone pops up Google Now cards for news, sport, etc. This should be based on my interests and generally it is - I just had a pop up from Gizmodo n the 737MAX for example.

However, on Brexit, I get a lot of pop ups from the Daily Express and Telegraph. For example, looking now, I have three Express stories, two Telegraph stories and one BBC story on Brexit. What's strange is that I rarely look at the Express web site as it's horrible to look at and even more rarely look at the Telegraph as it's paywalled. When looking at what the press are saying, I generally use the Daily Mail for all my pro-Brexit news along with the Independent for my pro-Remain news.

Just for balance, a very similar story in the Telegraph.

Hugh	15-05-2019 20:21

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35994988)

It's called trend setting Hugh.

is that part of the same trend as Nigel standing for 7 UK Parliamentary seats and losing each time?

papa smurf

15-05-2019 20:45

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35994999)

is that part of the same trend as Nigel standing for 7 UK Parliamentary seats and losing each time?

Never give up trying eh, just look at Tm's deal coming back for another go ;)

if people couldn't keep on having another go and trying to succeed there wouldn't be any women drivers on the roads.

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