Brexit - Page 209

Mr K · 31-05-2019, 12:05

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Originally Posted by jfman

Do the Brexit Party have 650 odd candidates who will stand up to the scrutiny of a General Election?

Don't know, but there's plenty of pensioners around with nothing better to do but screw it up for future generations, whilst happily bleeding the country dry themselves!

jfman · 31-05-2019, 13:08

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Does Change UK who are just as old as Brexit Party?

No, but nobody considers them a credible anyway! Labour, the Conservatives, the LDs do, plus the nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales in their own area.

gba93 · 31-05-2019, 14:25

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Originally Posted by Mr K

Don't know, but there's plenty of pensioners around with nothing better to do but screw it up for future generations, whilst happily bleeding the country dry themselves!

Just remember it was a lot of the now pensioners which voted to take us into the ECONOMIC community in the first place. The difference is that we can see the way the POLITICAL union is taking us and we don't like it.

pip08456 · 31-05-2019, 14:30

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Just remember it was a lot of the now pensioners which voted to take us into the ECONOMIC community in the first place. The difference is that we can see the way the POLITICAL union is taking us and we don't like it.

The 1975 referendum wasn't a vote to take us in. It was a vote to remain in. We joined in 1973.

**Hugh** · 31-05-2019, 14:53

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Originally Posted by jfman

Do the Brexit Party have 650 odd candidates who will stand up to the scrutiny of a General Election?

I wonder who will select the candidates, as they don't have members with a vote on things like that?

1andrew1 · 31-05-2019, 15:08

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Originally Posted by Hugh

I wonder who will select the candidates, as they don't have members with a vote on things like that?

I guess the same as selected their Peterborough candidate?

jfman · 31-05-2019, 15:16

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I wonder who will select the candidates, as they don't have members with a vote on things like that?

Putin?

**Mick** · 31-05-2019, 15:29

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Originally Posted by Mr K

Don't know, but there's plenty of pensioners around with nothing better to do but screw it up for future generations, whilst happily bleeding the country dry themselves!

Not this bullshit again - Know plenty of young people who voted for Brexit Party.

Enough of the prejudices of older voters who have just as much right to vote for who they please and if I am not mistaken, saw plenty of old people marching for a peoples vote so pack it in with the insulting and stereotyping of specific age groups, more specifically, old people.

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Putin?

Now you are just being frankly, very silly.

**Hugh** · 31-05-2019, 15:30

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I guess the same as selected their Peterborough candidate?

Anyone can apply to be a BP candidate (if you pay £100), but I can't find anything about the selection process on the BP website.

**Mick** · 31-05-2019, 15:30

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Originally Posted by Hugh

I wonder who will select the candidates, as they don't have members with a vote on things like that?

Change UK who selects theirs - being one sided again, aren't we Hugh?

**Hugh** · 31-05-2019, 15:37

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Originally Posted by Mick

Change UK who selects theirs - being one sided again, aren't we Hugh?

I think it is equally relevant that ChangeUK/The Independent Group/whatever their latest name is should also publish how they select candidates, but my answer was in response to a question about the Brexit candidates in the (potentially) upcoming General Election.

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Do the Brexit Party have 650 odd candidates who will stand up to the scrutiny of a General Election?

1andrew1 · 31-05-2019, 15:38

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Change UK who selects theirs - being one sided again, aren't we Hugh?

Mick, why all the whatabouterry? No one needs to mention Clinton when discussing trump or Change UK when discussing the Brexit Party.

**Mick** · 31-05-2019, 15:44

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Are you avoiding answering the question again, Mick, by using "whataboutism"?

I think it is equally relevant that ChangeUK/The Independent Group/whatever their latest name is should also publish how they select candidates, but my answer was in response to a question about the Brexit candidates in the (potentially) upcoming General Election.

I cannot avoid answering a question, when one was not directed at me.

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Mick, why all the whatabouterry? No one needs to mention Clinton when discussing trump or Change UK when discussing the Brexit Party.

Oh I know you'd just like to focus one aspect of this discussion to just the above, but we are not doing that.

When questions are being asked, why certain members picking on just Brexit Party ?

Because it's always one sided with some of you lot. When I mention issues that are across a whole spectrum on either side, it's "tumbleweed", but when it's Trump or Brexit Party, you jump right on it like bees to honey. It's pathetic.

1andrew1 · 31-05-2019, 15:55

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I cannot avoid answering a question, when one was not directed at me.

You answered #3125 by trying to deflect attention to another party that's on its last legs.

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Oh I know you'd just like to focus one aspect of this discussion to just the above, but we are not doing that.

When questions are being asked, why certain members picking on just Brexit Party ?

Because it's always one sided with some of you lot. When I mention issues that are across a whole spectrum on either side, it's "tumbleweed", but when it's Trump or Brexit Party, you jump right on it like bees to honey. It's pathetic.

At the moment, we're debating the Brexit Party not Change UK. You don't need to defend every organisation or politician like it's your football team. I don't mind discussing other parties if relevant but it doesn't progress the debate if it's just used as a distraction technique.

OLD BOY · 31-05-2019, 16:13

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Originally Posted by Mr K

Don't know, but there's plenty of pensioners around with nothing better to do but screw it up for future generations, whilst happily bleeding the country dry themselves!

I don't know why you are trying to stir up hatred of the older generation, Mr K.

If the older and wiser people are telling you something that you don't agree with, maybe you should think on. No good complaining after the event.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Mick, why all the whatabouterry? No one needs to mention Clinton when discussing trump or Change UK when discussing the Brexit Party.

It's called balance, Andrew.