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JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 2244

MaliA wrote:

If they're from the south east, surely they'd say "Hemel", rather than "Hemel Hempstead"? That's the only issue I have with it.

Not so much here in East Herts. It's not that far, but never "Hemel".

I may be atypical.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 3453

JBR wrote:

MaliA wrote:

If they're from the south east, surely they'd say "Hemel", rather than "Hemel Hempstead"? That's the only issue I have with it.

Not so much here in East Herts. It's not that far, but never "Hemel".

I may be atypical.

Interesting. Are you one of those people who pronounce it Emile, a la Heskey? I hear that a lot.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 21473

The dude is an author, and the thread journey is contrived to get to the conclusion so far.

Brexit ex pat parents.
Labourer son who is both incredibly stupid but mysteriously well informed.
The author is friends with the mayor
The mayor is willing to play along.
The son's reponse is always a tick box in ill-informed low level racism triggers.
Throw in a luddite solictor, who is paranoid about webcams, but more than happy to divulge any and all information to a random author who has no interest in the situation.
Add a touch of outraged boss who is willing to slag off his amusingly dodgy employee.

It's entertaining, but it's all made up.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 10982

Trooper wrote:

The dude is an author

Is he though? I did an admittedly very small amount of Googling earlier and couldn't find anything about an author RS Archer writing 'David Saunders' books. Which is weird in itself, why make such a public claim when it's easily proven to be nonsense?

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 2244

Findus Fop wrote:

JBR wrote:

MaliA wrote:

If they're from the south east, surely they'd say "Hemel", rather than "Hemel Hempstead"? That's the only issue I have with it.

Not so much here in East Herts. It's not that far, but never "Hemel".

I may be atypical.

Interesting. Are you one of those people who pronounce it Emile, a la Heskey? I hear that a lot.

This I have not heard! No, pure "Hem-ul".

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 21845

R.S. Archer.
Wrote a series of books, bought a boat, got prostate cancer, died an American hero. RIP this stock photo. May it rest in peace.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:38

A few days ago, there was much backslapping and Hi5s all around as a letter was sent. Here it is

https://twitter.com/andreajenkyns/statu ... 2292155393

A Letter from Mark Francois, Chairman of the ERG to Michel Barnier. pic.twitter.com/uHjyJ57ERZ
— Andrea Jenkyns MP #StayAlertSaveLives (@andreajenkyns) June 29, 2020

Barnier's reply is below.

https://twitter.com/Barnes_Joe/status/1 ... 9472838656

And here it is, Michel Barnierâ€™s long awaited reply to European Research Group, you may have heard of them, chairman Mark Francois pic.twitter.com/27ABx8LH6Q
— Joe Barnes (@Barnes_Joe) July 9, 2020

This government is embarrassing

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:27

MaliA wrote:

This government is embarrassing

Aye. Embarrassing and pathetic. You'd have thought that the Eurosceptics would, over 40 years, have actually come up with some idea of what leaving might look like. Unfortunately, I'm now reconciling myself to the forthcoming disaster because no amount of warnings or request for more detail on how such-and-such a change is actually an improvement has ever yielded any decent response. I'd have thought Dominic Cummings and his superforecasters would have been all over the benefits of not being in a single market or customs union with our closest neighbours (let alone a part of the same country!) but here we are.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:54

Another day, news of another government advertising campaign about how excitingly complicated and burdensome life after 1st January will be. The only ray of light might be that actually introducing all of this makes people realise just how much of a ride they've been taken on, but it would still take years to rectify.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13013

Indeed.

https://twitter.com/RobDotHutton/status ... 1663633408

More expensive travel insurance, no pet passports, possible roaming charges, red tape for business: the government's website to tell people how to prepare for Brexit sounds like something the Remain campaign wrote in 2016. pic.twitter.com/t57bl0twcg
— Robert Hutton (@RobDotHutton) July 13, 2020

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:30

Who do you think will bear the increased costs of imported food?

1) the supplier
2) the supermarket
3) the customer

Gonna be spendy.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 21473

MaliA wrote:

Who do you think will bear the increased costs of imported food?

1) the supplier
2) the supermarket
3) the customer

Gonna be spendy.

4) The EU

This is what we voted for, don't let those bastards get away with not paying for it!

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2020 15:37

We’re gonna build an empire, and make the EU pay for it!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:11

Cornwall Council calls on government to provide £700m to replace EU funding

Good luck with that.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36317

Why don't Cornwall go to their own Government?

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:15

The BBC [url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53685266] that the government are spending £355m to help businesses with new customs forms when moving goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain. Nowhere in the article does it mention that this something Mr Johnson repeatedly said would never happen, and that he would be happy for companies to send him any forms to throw away.

This is, of course, all on top of the plans to turn Kent into a car park. Unfortunately we're in for a tough few years whilst we wait for the chlorinated chickens to come home to roost.

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