05-04-2019, 20:55
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#1246
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Re: Brexit
We are paying £1bn a month into their budget. They need us more than we need them!
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05-04-2019, 21:46
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#1247
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Trollsplatter
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by jfman
We are paying £1bn a month into their budget. They need us more than we need them!
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You could do worse than to read Katya Adler on the BBC News website. Now that No Deal is staring them down the throat, the unity is starting to crumble (just slightly). What it will come down to is a calculation between which member states will lose most out of a No Deal (Germany) and which stands to gain from acting tough and booting us out (France, i.e. Macron).
You and I both know that the UK Parliament is basically unable and unwilling to draw a line under this. You think that means we’re in for a referendum; I think it is reasonably likely that France in consort with at least one other member state will draw a line under it for us. The French have always known we’d be a spanner in le works. They were right, and should never have undone De Gaulle’s good work in denying us membership in the first place. Maybe now they’ll take the chance to right a historic wrong and veto an extension just as De Gaulle once vetoed our membership.
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05-04-2019, 22:04
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#1248
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by Chris
You could do worse than to read Katya Adler on the BBC News website. Now that No Deal is staring them down the throat, the unity is starting to crumble (just slightly). What it will come down to is a calculation between which member states will lose most out of a No Deal (Germany) and which stands to gain from acting tough and booting us out (France, i.e. Macron).
You and I both know that the UK Parliament is basically unable and unwilling to draw a line under this. You think that means we’re in for a referendum; I think it is reasonably likely that France in consort with at least one other member state will draw a line under it for us. The French have always known we’d be a spanner in le works. They were right, and should never have undone De Gaulle’s good work in denying us membership in the first place. Maybe now they’ll take the chance to right a historic wrong and veto an extension just as De Gaulle once vetoed our membership.
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I was out at “staring them down the throat”. The exact wasteful terminology that has left us here at all.
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05-04-2019, 22:16
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by jfman
I was out at “staring them down the throat”. The exact wasteful terminology that has left us here at all.
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Stick your fingers in your ears and sing la la la 
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05-04-2019, 22:29
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Re: Brexit
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Stick your fingers in your ears and sing la la la |
You should during the perpetual extension for health and safety.
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05-04-2019, 22:37
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Brexit
Theresa May extending Article 50
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05-04-2019, 22:48
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Re: Brexit
Every little helps.
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British passports are being issued without the words 'European Union' on the cover, despite the delay to Brexit.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47833702
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06-04-2019, 00:16
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Re: Brexit
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Stick your fingers in your ears and sing la la la |
When we remain i’ll quote this post.
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06-04-2019, 09:03
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by Chris
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phew, got mine just in time, then...
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06-04-2019, 09:13
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Re: Brexit
"One recipient said she was "truly appalled" at the change."
This was the only reaction reported by the Biased Broadcasting Corporation.
Shame on the BBC.
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06-04-2019, 11:29
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Brexit
With all of this talk of potentially having to participate in the upcoming European Parliamentary elections - can I just say that it’s bad enough being ruled by unelected bloody Eurocrats, without having to bloody vote for them!
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06-04-2019, 12:08
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Re: Brexit
The Cabinet Office are hiring for the role of Policy adviser - electoral campaigning and referendums - https://cabinetofficejobs.tal.net/vx...erendums/en-GB
What can that be for I wonder?
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06-04-2019, 12:17
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Re: Brexit
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The Cabinet Office was asked last week to commence contingency planning for our possible involvement in the Euro elections in May.
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06-04-2019, 12:28
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by Hugh
With all of this talk of potentially having to participate in the upcoming European Parliamentary elections - can I just say that it’s bad enough being ruled by unelected bloody Eurocrats, without having to bloody vote for them!
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European Parliament huh it's full of foreigners 
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06-04-2019, 12:46
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#1260
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
European Parliament huh it's full of foreigners |
Worse still, if the current balance of power in the EU Parliament is maintained, it will remain a hegemonist institution focused on trumping the powers of national parliaments.
You Remainers, beware.
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