BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion

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Do you think the UK leaving the European Union would be a good thing?

Poll ended at Sat Jun 18, 2016 8:51 pm

Yes
36
72%
No
14
28%
 
Total votes: 50

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Re: BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion

#5521 Post by Boac » Sun Jan 10, 2021 9:16 am

I am alarmed at the 'forecast' of port disruption by Gove (who said little would change?). The relaxation of the EU ban on neonicotinoid thiamethoxam, ostensibly for 'emergency use', is worrying and needs careful monitoring. This relaxation is supposedly for 'beet' crops only, and DEFRA has said

“Pesticides can only be used where we judge there to be no harm to human health and animal health, and no unacceptable risks to the environment. The temporary use of this product is strictly limited to a non-flowering crop and will be tightly controlled to minimise any potential risk to pollinators.”

In the final line of its background statement, Defra added: “Protecting pollinators is a priority for this government.”

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#5522 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jan 10, 2021 9:35 am

The Lincolnshire beet fields tend to be in the fens which are well drained and flow into The Wash marine reserve so that's OK then.

Mussels for tea then?

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#5523 Post by barkingmad » Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:07 am

boac quoted: “In the final line of its background statement, Defra added: “Protecting pollinators is a priority for this government.”

That was very likely a typo error and should have read:

“Protecting pollutors is a priority for this government.”

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#5524 Post by Boac » Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:41 pm

Do we have an up-to-date report of the progress of commercial maritime traffic across the channel? Been all over Giggle and cannot find anything.

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#5525 Post by Woody » Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:32 pm

So Ribrash are you catching happier fish :)) :))
Tory Brexiteer Mr Rees-Mogg said: 'What is happening is that the Government is tackling this issue, dealing with it as quickly as possible, and the key thing is we've got our fish back.

'They're now British fish and they're better and happier fish for it.'

At this the Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened and noted: 'Obviously there's no overwhelming evidence for that.'
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#5526 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:48 pm

The Catholic ****...

**** he deserves to be strangled... by me...



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Re: BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion

#5527 Post by Boac » Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:48 pm

I'm hoping the first instalment of £350 million for the NHS isn't stuck at Calais?

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#5528 Post by Woody » Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:42 pm

Looks like another deal has bitten the dust :-o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56932551
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GB Stickers on Cars Verboten in the EU

#5529 Post by k3k3 » Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:47 am

From 28th September UK registered cars driving in the EU must show a UK sticker or number plate identifier instead of GB, the EU flag symbol is also not permitted.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/driving-in- ... ber-plates

I blame the EU!

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#5530 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Sep 02, 2021 11:58 am

What is the penalty for not displaying the UK sticker?

Can they seize and crush the vehicle?

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#5531 Post by llondel » Thu Sep 02, 2021 6:03 pm

Who decided that a UK, rather than a GB, sticker is required? It's always been a GB sticker from way before they tried harmonising everything.

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#5532 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Sep 02, 2021 6:42 pm

the United Kingdom is changing the distinguishing sign that it had previously selected for display in international traffic on vehicles registered in the United Kingdom, from ‘GB’ to ‘UK’.
A spokesman for the British Department for Transport said: “Changing the national identifier from GB to UK symbolises our unity as a nation and is part of a wider move towards using the UK signifier across government.

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#5533 Post by ian16th » Thu Sep 02, 2021 8:09 pm

The old GB plates always upset the Ulster Unionists.
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#5534 Post by llondel » Thu Sep 02, 2021 8:22 pm

OK, I had a look. The UK used UK until 1922 and then switched to GB. I wonder if that was due to the Irish independence?

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#5535 Post by Woody » Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:13 pm

Glad I don’t drink much of their products :ymdevil:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58428800
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#5536 Post by Boac » Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:17 am

Amused to see Michel Barnier has turned his coat.

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#5537 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:28 pm

Wurr oot.

Oot, I tell ye. Oot.

Fukkn oot.

Oot, as in not in. Oot.

HamdullillAllah!

AllahHuAkkbar! Wurr fukkn oot. ^:)^

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#5538 Post by barkingmad » Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:22 pm

Oooh dear Gawd, I was under the impression the great unwashed radical unthinking British voters had voted to leave the EUropean branch of the WEF in an ultimately frustrated ambition to have some degree of self-determination and sovereignty.

Now I am informed by some obscure Uni Prof, who’s trying to cement his career, that it was all due to the perfidious BBC producing certain comedy shows back in the last millenium;

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/ ... for-brexit

What sweet relief it was not actually due to an inherent wish to throw off the shackles of the EUropean superstate but thanks to some evening TV sitcoms which obviously pickled our brains and programmed us all more effectively than any East Berlin Stasi-style brainwashing.

Now I may sleep easy with a clear conscience knowing it wasn’t my fault Russia invaded Ukraine, the NHS is in terminal crisis and I am responsible for the barbecuing of the runway at (RAF) Coningsby. =))

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#5539 Post by OneHungLow » Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:52 pm

barkingmad wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:22 pm
Oooh dear Gawd, I was under the impression the great unwashed radical unthinking British voters had voted to leave the EUropean branch of the WEF in an ultimately frustrated ambition to have some degree of self-determination and sovereignty.

Now I am informed by some obscure Uni Prof, who’s trying to cement his career, that it was all due to the perfidious BBC producing certain comedy shows back in the last millenium;

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/ ... for-brexit

What sweet relief it was not actually due to an inherent wish to throw off the shackles of the EUropean superstate but thanks to some evening TV sitcoms which obviously pickled our brains and programmed us all more effectively than any East Berlin Stasi-style brainwashing.

Now I may sleep easy with a clear conscience knowing it wasn’t my fault Russia invaded Ukraine, the NHS is in terminal crisis and I am responsible for the barbecuing of the runway at (RAF) Coningsby. =))
It is your fault! All of it.

How do you feel about that? :p
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Re: BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion

#5540 Post by OFSO » Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:08 pm

Well nowc there isn't any comedy any more on BBC TV* we will all return to being pro-Europe, no doubt.

* Other that the comedy provided by our rulers in Parliament and recently out of it.

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