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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Is the Oxbridge graduate digging in for a class war?
    Boydy earning his way into a good uni is nothing to hold against him in any argument of class warfare.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Jesus Christ. I'm not sure how much more clear I can be that I am infinitely grateful for everything that's been afforded me and the circumstances that gave me those opportunities and think they need to be available to all.
    Yep, everyone should get free entry into a private school.

    It's fine to say that the EU offers greater assistance to kids who'd otherwise have no future, but you finding another way to crowbar in boasting about your actually rather meagre considering your advantages income just undermines everything you're saying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    It's fine to say that the EU offers greater assistance to kids who'd otherwise have no future
    Didn't say that.

    but you finding another way to crowbar in boasting about your actually rather meagre considering your advantages income just undermines everything you're saying.
    Didn't say that either.

    I know and acknowledge I am a fuck-up, a c-tier student, a functioning alcoholic and probably a drug addict and yet I am earning more than 90% of my home country specifically because of the advantages given to me by the decisions of my parents. Deal with that how you will. You still haven't asked why I voted remain despite me stating that barely factored into it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    You still haven't asked why I voted remain despite me stating that barely factored into it.
    Because I don't care. I was just lolling at the dishonesty of your bio.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    A kid that was forced to emigrate abroad (but within the same region like the ROI) for tax reasons, didn't do well at school and used the inbuilt advantages of growing up in that country/school system to out-earn 90% of the populace of the country he originated from?

    Yeah, terrible example.
    I meant your attitude on the subject.

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    What has any of this got to do with your view on the European Union?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    What has any of this got to do with your view on the European Union?
    Nothing, I made my comment about Henry’s opinion and I then answered questions to my reply.

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    Is Henry talking about the original referendum or the putative next one?

    I always thought he was a full potato anyway. Of course they'd want Britain to remain in. The (lols of the) plight of The Republic would be the only thing worth actually (hard) leaving for at this point.

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    There you go @Giggles. What you’ve been waiting for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    There you go @Giggles. What you’ve been waiting for.
    Fuck sake, when I seen the notification I thought there'd been a no deal and they'd the wall half built at this stage.

    If you'd have manned up a hundred years ago you could have avoided all of this easily anyway.



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    Last edited by Giggles; 28-09-2018 at 06:09 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    If your reason for leaving is 'How they treated Greece', you could sit comfortable in the fact that you'd never be treated like that because you're too important to them unless you left, in which case they'd treat you like they did Greece for daring to leave. By voting leave out of that belief, you've caused the situation you wanted to avoid.
    It's not just Greece. It's how the whole thing operates and how the institutions are structured. Greece is but one symptom.

    But there is a need for a customs union and so forth.
    @niko_cee - I didn't have a vote in the first referendum but I would have voted to leave. I'm saying I've changed my mind.
    Last edited by Henry; 28-09-2018 at 08:11 AM.

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    So as a hypothetical question, if we imagine the (obviously fictional) situation where the UK decided tomorrow en masse that actually they made a huge mistake and wanted to stay in the EU. Is there any actual way this could occur? I feel like the die has been well and truly cast now, and even if every single person wanted to change it, it couldn't really be done.

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    They'd find a way around it. The EU don't want to lose us.

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    It sounds like the easiest thing to do. Actually leaving is far more complicated.

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    Never ever happen though. Whether staying would be for the best or not, stiff upper lip and all that crud.

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    The UK's definitely not leaving (in any meaningful way). It may do so in name, maybe, but that'll be about the extent of it.

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    I definitely think that whatever they did, they would have to respect the referendum result to some degree. Anything else throws into doubt every subsequent referendum they'll ever have.

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    We won't be having any more, that much is certain.

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    Well, maybe one more.

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    Can't wait for the Welsh independence one as promised by the new Plaid leader today. Six leeks for every child.

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    If they binned their silly fascination with preserving a dead language they might be able to afford it.

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    Say what you like about that awful language but calling a Microwave a Poppity Ping is delightful.

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    I think we're in a situation where we have to leave and accept the terms we're given. The EU can't imply we can leave in name only because it'll give the other members some ideas. Also, if you're respecting the result (and thus democracy), you're leaving because that's the option on the ballot.

    We'll leave in a huff, claiming the EU is difficult to work with and that'll be that. I mean, the nuclear option is that May halts the shitshow, calls another snap election, stands down and then whoever gets in promises 'a second referendum eventually'

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    The terms we're give presumably being oh please let us buy all of the things you sell us without impediment. Oh no, wait.

    You can chlorinate (and fluoridate) our children, but we you'll never chlorinate our chicken!

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    Mate, we can go outside of the EU for Coronation Chicken.

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    From the stuff David Allen Green talks about, there really isn't enough time left to run another referendum so we will go and it'll be shit. In about 25 years we might have all the agreements back in place.

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    I'm looking forward to how these tedious remain 'commentators' keep the scam up once we're out. It's been an absolutely magnificent bilk for some of them these past couple of years, so they will probably be tweeting selective growth statistics until the end of time.

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    Has Niko been beaten up by immigrants recently?
    Last edited by Spikey M; 29-09-2018 at 06:28 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Has Niko been beaten us by immigrants recently?
    Some 'forrin, innit' has been pumping his Mrs

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    The Conservative Party have an app for the conference. Somehow you can login as literally anyone and it gives you the personal e-mail/phone number etc. and allows you to change those details of anyone who pre-regged to the conference.


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    Not our politics, but the Macedonians ignoring that disgraceful stitch-up referendum is spectacular. Who does Greece think it is? It's not as if they're a vitally important part of NATO or the European Union themselves, the queers, and yet they can keep those poor little fucks out over bullshit naming rights. I would chuck them out.

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    Ol' Theresa has got on stage and tried to save her job by claiming she will bring an end to austerity. Alright, how are you planning on paying for 8 years worth of cutbacks?

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    By not becoming Venezuela.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    By not becoming Venezuela.
    Isolated and drowning in debt? Already there, mate. May as well go the Full Monty.

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    It's actually not that bad.

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    I understand that everything in politics is posturing but if everyone involved in this thread actually wants what is discussed we've basically just confirmed that Brexit will break apart the UK, no?

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    Not when we get our NO DEAL border wall and sea patrols. We'll be like East Germany.

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    If Arlene Foster, soon to be affectionately known as 'Wor Arlene', sinks Theresa May I'll send the DUP a tenner.

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    It's always a great day when Slammin' Sammy Wilson gets quotes in the news.

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    I'd love to think that there is some over-paid advisor/civil servant sincerely encouraging her to play chicken with them maniacs.

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    Theresa May always looks like someone who is walking for for first time in about a decade.

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    She's trying to remember the briefing she's just had on how to walk.

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    A friend of mine said 'She looks like one of those Boston Dynamic robots that they video being pushed over and hit with bats' which I thought was quite a decent analogy for her Premiership tbh.

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    Anyone could've taken the leadership after the vote and we'd be saying the exact same thing.

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    You either bend over and pucker your arsehole for them, or you tell them to fuck off and leave without a deal. The only mistake she’s making is thinking there’s a chance of getting a ‘deal’.
    Last edited by Spikey M; 18-10-2018 at 06:14 AM.

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    Well, well, well. Tory scum are turning the UK into a right basket case, aren't they? The problem is not that there isn't a deal available, it's very clearly insufficient political support in the UK for any variety of deal that might be put to them. And that won't change without an election.

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    Did you see Kate Joey's innovative suggestion @Henry


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Did you see Kate Joey's innovative suggestion @Henry


    Because it's less than a century after getting shot of you pillaging cunts. Going back is not an option and wouldn't have a snowballs change of passing no matter how big a shower of west brits we have running the show at the moment.

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    You never got shot of us you daft sod. You are us, despite your hopes to be part of the Charlemagne Empire. The resentment runs deep though, understandably (has Al Murray done his bit about why everyone hates the English Re: Ireland yet?) so it's, as has been obvious from day 1, a fairly unsolvable problem (in the sense of achieving both aims of 'Brexit' and 'No hard border!').

    A general election isn't going to solve anything as, I would assume, Labour would merely offer mealy-mouthed lies again and we'd be back in the same situation of having to do an impossible deal. Only a reversal of the whole thing, by whatever means, is actually going to solve anything (other than just leaving, natch).

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    Ad by 'us' I mean person from this loose amalgam of islands sitting in the East Atlantic sometimes, perhaps problematically, referred to as the British Isles.

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