Jacksgranda Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 9 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Had to Google Maghera thinking it might be somewhere like South Sudan. You're thinking of Dungannon... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Mogg saying stopping U.K. leaving E.U. on 29 March would be undemocratic. He then said if necessary Parliament should be closed to stop it from happening! What a fucking crackpot; why people take this cartoon character seriously is beyond me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar 2nd Tier Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Just now, Granny Danger said: Mogg saying stopping U.K. leaving E.U. on 29 March would be undemocratic. He then said if necessary Parliament should be closed to stop it from happening! What a fucking crackpot; why people take this cartoon character seriously is beyond me. He is just symptomatic of the dangerous slide England is taking to elected Fascism. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 So Nicola is meeting with the PM this afternoon. I'd like to think she might ask if there is not going to be another referendum on Brexit, do you mind if we have another one on Independence? Bring it on. Getting fed up of Blackford and pals saying that Scotland won't be dragged out of the EU against its will. It's time to put up or shut up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/the-campaign-for-a-peoples-vote-on-brexit-has-descended An interesting article about the People's Vote campaign. It's basically a Blairite operation involving Campbell, Mandelson and Will Straw. All their offices are owned by secretive Offshore trusts and it's not clear who is funding them. The head of campaign is Amber Rudd's extremely wealthy lobbyist brother. It says a lot that Caroline Lucas is so involved with these chancers, she's definitely a fraud. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Bring it on. Getting fed up of Blackford and pals saying that Scotland won't be dragged out of the EU against its will. It's time to put up or shut up. Donald Findlay has found Pie and Bovril folks. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 So Buzzfeed is okay now? Cool. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 22 minutes ago, Principal Flutie said: So Buzzfeed is okay now? Cool. It's a run of the mill political article. Not a fake story that the President of the USA is going to get impeached. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 48 minutes ago, Principal Flutie said: So Buzzfeed is okay now? Cool. They're perfectly reliable so long as they're not saying bad things about Daddy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Sound. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 3 hours ago, beefybake said: Just for the record, I voted Remain, and still would. Within the link above , one of the subjects is 'acres'., and the apparent 'banning' of it by the EU. Here is the link.. https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/acres-outlawed-by-brussels-2/ Right at the bottom is the rebuttal, which basically says that 'Hectare' as a replacement term for 'acre' has been used by the British government, and the Land Registry for 20 years in official records., and that the EU thing was only making official what was already established practice. Or to be more exact, the extension of this would now be that private landowners, and estate agents, could still refer to 'acres', but would also have to include 'hectares' in ads etc. It's outrageous. Only the other day, I was in the pub explaining how an acre can be easily defined as an area that is a furlong in length and a chain in width. Seems straightforward enough to me. By comparison, a hectare is 10,000 square metres. How is anyone supposed to make sense of that! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 I read any article no matter the source as long as it aligns exactly with what I believe.Everything else is fascist garbage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 The more this goes on the more it shows how powerless Parliament really is. The executive has too much power principally because parliament is unable to serve as an effective check. The government controls the parliamentary timetable which restricts the function of both houses. It's a clique that's calling the shots and, short of revolution or party splits causing a VoNC, there seems to be f**k all that Parliament can do - only Yvette Cooper's amendment can apparently force the government to do anything as everything else can be ignored That's not democracy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 I read any article no matter the source as long as it aligns exactly with what I believe.Everything else is fascist garbage.Who is this even aimed at? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 56 minutes ago, welshbairn said: They're perfectly reliable so long as they're not saying bad things about Daddy. That story was disproved about 6 hours after I said on here it was clearly fake. The same thing happened with the Guardian story on Assange and Manafort. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 14 minutes ago, NotThePars said: Who is this even aimed at? Most of us at the moment. I met up with a good friend the last few days who it turns out wants a hard brexit. There's was no basis for conversation at all, no agreement on basic facts to move on from, so we left it alone. It's like Remainers and Leavers inhabit different universes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kneal Down Caster Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 It's outrageous. Only the other day, I was in the pub explaining how an acre can be easily defined as an area that is a furlong in length and a chain in width. Seems straightforward enough to me. By comparison, a hectare is 10,000 square metres. How is anyone supposed to make sense of that! [emoji6]I remember my dad once asking me if I fancied being a land owner. If I didn’t stop my cheek he would give me a kick in the nuts, which would give me a couple of acres. [emoji12] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Ivan Rogers delivers another very long but razor sharp lecture. I assume so anyway, haven't read it yet. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/sites/european-institute/files/sir_ivan_rogers_lecture_ucl_22012019.pdf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Most of us at the moment. I met up with a good friend the last few days who it turns out wants a hard brexit. There's was no basis for conversation at all, no agreement on basic facts to move on from, so we left it alone. It's like Remainers and Leavers inhabit different universes.With real hard-line Brexiters it's like speaking to a brick wall - everything they spout is just crap parroted back that they've read in the right wing rags or on social media. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Just now, DeeTillEhDeh said: 31 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Most of us at the moment. I met up with a good friend the last few days who it turns out wants a hard brexit. There's was no basis for conversation at all, no agreement on basic facts to move on from, so we left it alone. It's like Remainers and Leavers inhabit different universes. With real hard-line Brexiters it's like speaking to a brick wall - everything they spout is just crap parroted back that they've read in the right wing rags or on social media. I think he's more "What the f**k, it might be a laugh." He's retired and lives on a narrowboat so he probably thinks he's immune. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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