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How do you feel about Britain leaving the EU?
1) I want the UK out of the EU at all costs. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
2) I want out of the EU, unless there is some show stopper that means we should stay in. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
3) I want out of the EU, but could easily be persuaded to stay in. 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
4) Not sure if we should stay in or out. 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
5) I want to stay in the EU, but could easily be persuaded to leave. 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
6) I want to stay in the EU, unless there is a showstopper that means we should leave. 59%  59%  [ 22 ]
7) I want the UK to stay in the EU at all costs. 27%  27%  [ 10 ]
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I'm half-tempted to load up 'Chatroulette' later and ask people what they think about the general policy direction of the Juncker commission or their views on the democratic legitimacy of the co-decision procedure.


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No idea. I'm pretty sure before I got onto that question, let alone the intricacies of the proportionality principle, I'd just be seeing a cock.


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I'm trying to resist the urge to look up all the times in history when flotillas from Europe have sailed up the Thames, no matter how funny the resulting post would be.


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There have been reports of brief, light-hearted skirmishes, including the exchange of hose fire.


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I wish this one would end up in the Thames.


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 Post subject: Re: EU in or out?
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The Spectator, unsurprisingly, goes for OUT.

Interesting blog post and worth reading if you want to hear a calm argument from the Brexit side. It gains bonus points for referencing the Hapsburgs, the Glorious Revolution, and the American Civil War.


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Anyone who wants to sound like Kern at their next dinner party could do worse than the memorise this

Brexit: how a fringe idea took hold of the Tory party

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 Post subject: Re: EU in or out?
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It would mean an end to Cameron as PM, and Boris replacing him.
Hardly a socialist win there.


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No, what happens is that the workers will lose their false consciousness, throw off their chains, and rise up against the bourgeoisie


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No, what happens is that the workers will lose their false consciousness, throw off their chains, and rise up against the bourgeoisie

...and cavey will be furious.


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Question I asked myself earlier, if we vote leave does that make Farage unemployed? It's a tempting thought...


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It would mean an end to Cameron as PM, and Boris replacing him.
Hardly a socialist win there.


And most likely an end to minimum wages, working time regs, maternity pay, guaranteed paid leave, and a bastard load of other things. They've not really thought this through.

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Not my fault gov, wouldn't be in this situation of it weren't for them immigants. They caused me to cut my nose off, they did. Coming over here with their fancy words like 'umon rites'. Sounds dodgy, gov, some sort of eastern Europe cult,no doubt.

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Marx was an immigrant, after all.


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working time regs

Quite. There's a far-from-impossible scenario looming where Prime Minister Johnson "sets businesses free" by "cutting red tape" and repeals the Working Time Directive. Do you reckon employers like Sports Direct will be giving people 28 days of paid leave once it's not legally mandatory? Do you think they won't be pressuring low paid workers into working 50 or 60 or more hours per week as a contracted obligation?


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Just as well we've got a strong opposition party that believes in that and people willing to pound the streets and knock on doors at all hours to get them into government so these things that matter are kept.


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The first thing they'll do is destroy the unions so that a left wing opposition party becomes impossible to fund.


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 Post subject: Re: EU in or out?
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One week to go.

I think my game plan for 'Eurovision: Civil War' will be to watch the exit polls and coverage at the start, then turn in and get up around 4 AM. I'll probably have the bedside radio on just in case something big happens.

Private drinking games? Shot of wine for every area that goes 'remain'; shot of beer for every area that goes 'out'?


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 Post subject: Re: EU in or out?
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One week to go.

I think my game plan for 'Eurovision: Civil War' will be to watch the exit polls and coverage at the start, then turn in and get up around 4 AM. I'll probably have the bedside radio on just in case something big happens.

Private drinking games? Shot of wine for every area that goes 'remain'; shot of beer for every area that goes 'out'?

What? Is this a FPTP referendum rather than an overall majority vote?

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 Post subject: Re: EU in or out?
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No, it's overall vote but the counting will be done by local authority area.


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BBC FAQ:

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...counts will get under way when polls close at 22:00 GMT Thursday, 23 June at 382 local centres around the UK. These local results will be declared as the counts are completed before being collated at 12 regional centres, which will also declare the totals for each side. There will be a rolling total so the time at which one side reaches the point of being mathematically unbeatable depends on how quickly the vote are counted and how close the results are running. It is a safe bet that from 4am onwards there should be pretty clear picture of which way the vote is going. A chief counting officer will announce the overall result at Manchester Town Hall.


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On the night itself, Michael Gove and David Cameron will both be hooked onto cranes. The more votes they get, the higher their opponent will be lifted. Once the 50%+1 mark is reached, the loser will be dropped into the Channel.


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No i think the bit about the cranes was a joke, Russ

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It's to encourage the young people to vote, apparently.


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Watched Gove on catch up TV last night (Question Time).
Sorry to say, he did very well, and was well received by the audience. I could feel the tide turning strongly in his favour; as ever with Nationalism, hubristic, jingoistic, soul-stirring land-of-milk-and-honey bullshit firmly trumps boring, dry economic facts. It's like no-one noticed £30Bn wiped off the stock exchange, wasn't even fucking mentioned.

I'm not liking being on the losing side very much, I must say. :(

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I watched it last night as well. I don't think the tide turned in his favour; I think the general strength of favour was for him at the start. I know the audience was apparently balanced, but I guess the Brexiters seemed the more vocal.

I know it's a politician's way, but his flabby goat around the sheer contradiction of his ideas over the NHS made him so weasely in his snotty school boy appearance that I actually disliked him more by the end of the program... Something I didn't think was possible.

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Watched Gove on catch up TV last night (Question Time).
Sorry to say, he did very well, and was well received by the audience. I could feel the tide turning strongly in his favour; as ever with Nationalism, hubristic, jingoistic, soul-stirring land-of-milk-and-honey bullshit firmly trumps boring, dry economic facts. It's like no-one noticed £30Bn wiped off the stock exchange, wasn't even fucking mentioned.

I'm not liking being on the losing side very much, I must say. :(

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Cavey wrote:
Watched Gove on catch up TV last night (Question Time).
Sorry to say, he did very well, and was well received by the audience. I could feel the tide turning strongly in his favour; as ever with Nationalism, hubristic, jingoistic, soul-stirring land-of-milk-and-honey bullshit firmly trumps boring, dry economic facts. It's like no-one noticed £30Bn wiped off the stock exchange, wasn't even fucking mentioned.

I'm not liking being on the losing side very much, I must say. :(

Hold steady, Cavey. We can do this!


I'm sticking to the bitter end mate; for my part I am telling anyone who'll listen to vote Remain - but seem to be further cementing my rep as a dangerous Lefty among my hardline, cynical Eurosceptic social circle... fuck knows what they'd make of the forum lol.

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Cavey wrote:
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Cavey wrote:
Watched Gove on catch up TV last night (Question Time).
Sorry to say, he did very well, and was well received by the audience. I could feel the tide turning strongly in his favour; as ever with Nationalism, hubristic, jingoistic, soul-stirring land-of-milk-and-honey bullshit firmly trumps boring, dry economic facts. It's like no-one noticed £30Bn wiped off the stock exchange, wasn't even fucking mentioned.

I'm not liking being on the losing side very much, I must say. :(

Hold steady, Cavey. We can do this!


I'm sticking to the bitter end mate; for my part I am telling anyone who'll listen to vote Remain - but seem to be further cementing my rep as a dangerous Lefty among my hardline, cynical Eurosceptic social circle... fuck knows what they'd make of the forum lol.

But it's not about left and right, eh?

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I watched it last night as well. I don't think the tide turned in his favour; I think the general strength of favour was for him at the start. I know the audience was apparently balanced, but I guess the Brexiters seemed the more vocal.

I know it's a politician's way, but his flabby goat around the sheer contradiction of his ideas over the NHS made him so weasely in his snotty school boy appearance that I actually disliked him more by the end of the program... Something I didn't think was possible.

Yeah I thought he came across as every inch the sniveling little shitworm that he is.

Still holding out some hope, I think that Remain has become the "shy" option in popular discourse with the Leave camp most likely to want to shout about their intentions.


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Nigel Farage with Leave's new ad:

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Actual, literal Nazi propaganda:

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That can't be coincidence.

Surely the ad men have known what they are doing there, and have leaked the comparison shot after knowing full well that they've allowed that set up. M
I mean, surely...

The shots are too similar, even with the hedge/path leading out from the right.

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The angles and lines of the backgrounds and banks are identical. Even if it was taken in the same place the photographer would have to have been standing in the same spot.

Intentional, surely?

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Of all the stupid I've read, Fox going to Gibraltar to claim that a vote for remain will close the Spanish border and they need to vote leave to keep the border open has to rank among the most brainhurtingly thick.


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Mimi wrote:
The angles and lines of the backgrounds and banks are identical. Even if it was taken in the same place the photographer would have to have been standing in the same spot.

Intentional, surely?


At my most kindest I'd say that maybe they just hit up a photo library and searched for "refugee queue"

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Of all the stupid I've read, Fox going to Gibraltar to claim that a vote for remain will close the Spanish border and they need to vote leave to keep the border open has to rank among the most brainhurtingly thick.


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The angles and lines of the backgrounds and banks are identical. Even if it was taken in the same place the photographer would have to have been standing in the same spot.

Intentional, surely?


At my most kindest I'd say that maybe they just hit up a photo library and searched for "refugee queue"


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It gets better. Here's the original of that image of queues of referees. Guess what they've done? Photoshopped out the white people so it's very clear that all refugees are of course brown people


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It gets better. Here's the original of that image of queues of referees. Guess what they've done? Photoshopped out the white people so it's very clear that all refugees are of course brown people


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