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

#2921 Post by Ex-Ascot » Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:59 am

Only just alerted to this ministerial reshuffle. Happy to take the foreign office Woody. Very familiar with bloody Embassy cocktail parties but as the Minister one could bog off early and stir the ***** in said country. I would bring back the British Empire. Any complaints from the NRs and they would be shot. This also helps if there is a food shortage.
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#2922 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:08 am

Perhaps the Overseas Aid budget should be directed back to where it belongs, funding better Embassy cocktail parties?

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#2923 Post by Woody » Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:11 pm

Back in the time when I was working for BA Cargo, the increase in Diplomatic Mail just before QBP,s was very impressive :))
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#2924 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:29 pm

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#2925 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:41 pm

May's letter
https://order-order.com/2019/03/20/mays ... extension/

EU Commission's Press Officer's almost immediate response pointing out what she is asking for is impossible, and she'd already been told so.


She's mad, literally. Knowingly, publicly, asking the impossible.

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#2926 Post by Krystal n Chips » Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:49 pm

If only she had done a course in the inane and archaic form of communication, so beloved to some, known as Service writing.... as it's barely intelligible , the EU would have agreed months ago.

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#2927 Post by Sisemen » Wed Mar 20, 2019 2:11 pm

as it's barely intelligible

Well, at least you’re the expert in that field.

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#2928 Post by ian16th » Wed Mar 20, 2019 2:26 pm

Krystal n Chips wrote:
Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:59 am
I would be happy to accept the position as Leader of the Opposition because given the calibre of some of the, exclusively male, proposals for Ministerial roles, it wouldn't be long before they were consigned to history as their competency is comparative to the current Gov't .....actually, I would prefer Minister of Transport because you get lots of free trips and junkets.....

Meanwhile, Farage's Fearless Phalanx continues to head South.....alas, it could be me, or a cunning piece of fake C4 News editing of course, but, the massed ranks seem to have diminished somewhat.....but at least two dogs are now getting a nice walk every day.

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#2929 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Mar 20, 2019 2:36 pm

Once you start giving out jobs for reasons other than ability, you are on a path to disaster.
But this has been western governments' universal policy since the end of the Cold War ;)))

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#2930 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:16 pm

I believe Leader of the Opposition also gets lots of free junkets though often fails to declare them. Can also get first pick from the fugly ones.

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#2931 Post by CharlieOneSix » Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:36 pm

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#2932 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:22 pm

Tusk has just said a short extension will be possible, but questions remain about the duration.
I am pretty sure he can't agree to anything past May 22nd without the UK having to hold EU Parliament elections on May 23rd.

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#2933 Post by Magnus » Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:23 pm

exclusively male, proposals
Hansard will show . . . .

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#2934 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:53 pm

“I believe that a short extension will be possible but it will be conditional on a positive vote on the Withdrawal Agreement in the House of Commons.”
Donald Tusk.

So, it's May's Deal, or No Deal. Which is probably what she was angling for all along. However, at the moment, MV3 on her Deal won't even be allowed; nevermind that it's been voted down massively twice already. The pressure transfers to Jezza.

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#2935 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:11 pm

Well it seems that Mrs May is in a Catch 22 situation; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... y-article/

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#2936 Post by AtomKraft » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:17 pm

For Gawds sake.....

We did ok before we joined....

Let's just leave on 29 March, and on the thirtieth we can make a start on squaring away the minor details!

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#2937 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:38 pm

Are you sure? - It rises first over the EU, they could veto or delay its progress. They do that with everything else. Wrong shade of yellow; that sort of thing ;)))

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#2938 Post by AtomKraft » Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:09 pm

Nah fox.
Where I am it rises + 6 on Z

I'm mystified only by how the UK seems to be rudderless.
Not it's normal condition.

Must be the new politics?

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#2939 Post by OFSO » Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:19 pm

Not the only country with a defective steering mechanism, although the UK does appear to be the only one where the rudder has actually fallen off !

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Re: BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion

#2940 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:03 pm

Mrs May has made her pledge, to take us out of the EU on the 29th of March, her sole policy.

She has said so 80 times; 90 times; a hundred times or more. It was always that date, never the end of June. Always 29th of March.

She has failed. She must now go. On the morning of the 29th she must order her limo to desport her up the Mall to have a quiet word with the German bint up yonder to fess up to the fact that the Brits have been beaten by the **** Germans yet again and that she (the leopard-shoed one) is unfit for purpose and cannot credibly form a credible government.

At 23:00 on the 29th of this month the fireworks will fly! Not only Chez Plum, but all across the nation.

If the bitch (the English one, not the German) really does let us down I shall fly the Union Flag at half-mast all night. That's not normally allowable, but the circumstances would warrant such an exception.

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