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9 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

 

It's just ridiculous. 

I was actually having a look back at this thread earlier today as I wanted to avoid work. The amount of nonsense spouted at the time by people on both sides... To be fair some of predictions are pretty accurate... What was clear at the time though is that there wasn't a plan and shockingly there remains little plan.

BBC now running a story asking whether no deal is going to become policy, which means it will. I would be curious to see if many more Tories break rank after that...

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47 minutes ago, ChrisVillan said:

What kind of a word removed is looking at all this and thinking it's fine, never mind desirable?

Look at the people you're siding with.

I have this discussion with my uber hard-left Corbyn-loving uncle frequently. Voted Brexit thinking he could nationalise everything and end up in a socialist utopia.

I often delight in telling him he voted the same way as 99% of all the racists and bigot in the country (1% omitted for the inevitable Diane Abbott pic).

Any side that Farage, Johnson, Tommy Robinson, Trump and Bannon are on I'll pick the other side...doesn't matter what it is...no thanks.

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4 minutes ago, desensitized43 said:

I have this discussion with my uber hard-left Corbyn-loving uncle frequently. Voted Brexit thinking he could nationalise everything and end up in a socialist utopia.

I often delight in telling him he voted the same way as 99% of all the racists and bigot in the country (1% omitted for the inevitable Diane Abbott pic).

Any side that Farage, Johnson, Tommy Robinson, Trump and Bannon are on I'll pick the other side...doesn't matter what it is...no thanks.

It's insane.

If the racists and disaster capitalists and super-rich foreign influences are on your side, breaking the law at the outset and shutting down Parliament at the conclusion, I don't know what to say.

This whole thing has at least made me re-assess my belief in Parliament (the institution), so every shitty xenophobic cloud, I suppose. 

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4 minutes ago, avfcDJ said:

Received a newspaper today from the Brexit Party, now much money are they getting to afford that?

Would I be wrong to return it with cat.shit wrapped in it?

Cow or Pig would be much more preferable

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5 minutes ago, avfcDJ said:

Received a newspaper today from the Brexit Party, now much money are they getting to afford that?

Would I be wrong to return it with cat.shit wrapped in it?

Is the cat european?

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14 minutes ago, ChrisVillan said:

It's insane.

If the racists and disaster capitalists and super-rich foreign influences are on your side, breaking the law at the outset and shutting down Parliament at the conclusion, I don't know what to say.

This whole thing has at least made me re-assess my belief in Parliament (the institution), so every shitty xenophobic cloud, I suppose. 

Well a big part of the leftist Brexit argument was/is that the EU is essentially Thatcherite capitalist club. We helped to shape the project and where it would go economically speaking back in the 80s.

The thing they don't get is that capitalism isn't going anywhere. It's what underpins the entire western world. They want to break the system and rebuild it in their own image, much like the Farages of the world but at the other end of the spectrum. The far left and far right are two sides of the same coin.

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18 minutes ago, desensitized43 said:

Well a big part of the leftist Brexit argument was/is that the EU is essentially Thatcherite capitalist club. We helped to shape the project and where it would go economically speaking back in the 80s.

The thing they don't get is that capitalism isn't going anywhere. It's what underpins the entire western world. They want to break the system and rebuild it in their own image, much like the Farages of the world but at the other end of the spectrum. The far left and far right are two sides of the same coin.

I think some of it also comes from a particular fallacy: that remain voters think the EU is perfect. I don't.

Some leave voters, I'm sure, saw a flawed EU and wanted out on that basis. Maybe I'm being too generous.

I preferred the alternative to all this but I was no EU flag waver. 

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21 minutes ago, bickster said:

 

They said the lab -Lib gap was widening on Sunday , wish people would make their minds up :)

be interesting to see how 13% Brexit party supports equates in terms of actual seats in a GE  , there is still every chance they could end up with zero seats on 13% of the vote  presumably   ?

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33 minutes ago, avfcDJ said:

Received a newspaper today from the Brexit Party, now much money are they getting to afford that?

Would I be wrong to return it with cat.shit wrapped in it?

If it's like their election leaflet drops , the worst thing is they print your name and address on the things as well making it look like you are a member  , i looked into a GDPR complaint last time but seems electioneering is exempt

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