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Stockpiling cash in dollars and euro preparing for the collapse of the pound on the currency markets.

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 35978957)

Stockpiling cash in dollars and euro preparing for the collapse of the pound on the currency markets.

Not all your pocket money surely ;):D:D:D:)

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35978948)

Had one they stink and upset the neighbours.

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Potatoes are quite small this year.

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I gave up my allotment because we are already there.

People were already digging your vegetables up :shocked:

Yellow Vests face Yellow Vests: Fights erupt between anti-Brexit and pro-Brexit supporters

Eyewitness Ed Crawford, a photojournalist, has told The Express: "Both sides met at Trafalgar Square and there were several fights that broke out between UK antifa.

"Multiple people arrested and both sides screaming Nazi at each other.

"Owen Jones was questioned by A pro Brexit campaigner Danny Tommo and things got heated with him being escorted away.

"He claimed the pro Brexit protester was being rude and other pro Brexit protesters were spitting at him.

"A huge entourage of left wing activists escorted him away and loads of people were chasing after him.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/10...xit-pro-brexit

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35978961)

Not all your pocket money surely ;):D:D:D:)

30% of a tenner is nearly £3 ;)

You’re a Nazi!

No, you’re a Nazi!

Yeah well my dad says you’re a Nazi and my dad could beat up your dad so there!

:rolleyes:

It really has gone the full Python ...

It’s all rather depressing.

Referenda aren’t really helpful where they aren’t clearly won or lost by decisive majorities. The division in the country is huge and is unlikely to be healed regardless of the outcome.

Switzerland does hold many, but this results in shorter campaigns, less entrenched views and a more mature response to losing. Looking at the results for the last ten years in that country most are settled 60-40 or greater. A number of issues, tax, family income, have been raised in different forms many times, so ongoing results inform policy development going forward. None of the issues are as wholesale or wide-ranging as a black/white question of leaving the EU.

Belated move by the Met.

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Protester James Goddard held over Parliament incidents
Pro-Brexit activist James Goddard has been arrested in connection with incidents outside Parliament on Monday.
Police said a man in his 30s was arrested outside St James's Park Tube station in London just before midday.
He is being held on suspicion of a public order offence.
Mr Goddard was involved in a protest in Westminster earlier this week during which Remain-supporting Conservative MP Anna Soubry was called a Nazi.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46849939

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35978973)

Belated move by the Met.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46849939

He can count his blessing he didn’t speak with an Irish accent while carrying a table leg.

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Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 35978899)

I don't understand this comment.

You regularly say that the 17.4 million knew what they voted for but none of them were told "vote Leave and we will hurt the U.K. at least in the short term and also probably the medium term as well"?

So this scenario is definitely off the agenda then. We can only leave with No Deal if it fulfils the pledges of the Leave campaign. That is, after all, what you voted for, right?

No deal will obviously cause issues in the short and possible medium term. But many think a price worth paying

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35978976)

No deal will obviously cause issues in the short and possible medium term. But many think a price worth paying

Without any ideas “many” would be well advised to avoid speculation, or sheer guesswork, on what future may look like.

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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35978913)

In view of the warnings about a hard brexit who is stockpiling and what are you stockpiling?

I'm not sure whether to do so as lack of space will be my issue. I just hope that the medication I'm prescribed will still be available.I'm already having trouble with one product..

Nothing as it is all scaremongering bollocks, and any one that does is very impressionable.

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 35978972)

Switzerland has an utterly different political culture to the UK. Referendums (not referenda, the Latin word is a verb, not a noun ;) ) are a fundamental part of their process and the top of their government doesn’t even have a president - there’s a committee with a rotating chair.

Referendums are alien to the U.K., and we never held one before the original EU referendum. It is unfortunate that they now have clear precedent when, despite all appearances, the maturity of our own political system is in Parliament.

The one thing nobody’s talking about right now, but which I predict will define the next generation of our politics, is the opportunity Parliament has had here to exert influence. Admittedly it’s doing so when the executive is at a historic low point in its own power and competence, but I believe that once the dust has long settled on Brexit, Parliament will not easily lose its voice.

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 35978977)

Without any ideas “many” would be well advised to avoid speculation, or sheer guesswork, on what future may look like.

It’s called faith in the country. You should try it sometime.

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35978980)

It’s called faith in the country. You should try it sometime.

Faith is for belief in deities, the supernatural, mythology or similar. I suppose appropriate to a fiction like a glorious Brexit.