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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    yes, you should visit a country like Zimbabwe, with whom China has a completely "harmonious relationship". No one in government would dream of disagreeing with the Chinese. They couldn't afford to.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    you know, your repetitive use of insults instead of argument is familiar. it reminds me of a playground bully I knew when I was, oh, about seven. things didn't end well for him.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    it's not insider information. it's blatantly t the structure of the uk economy (mostly services based, unable to balance it's imports/exports through increased manufacturing - but don't let it worry you, it will do so through reduced consumption, in other words by lowering the living standard of...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    careful, too many seamless changes of identity and we may begin to think you're boris..
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    if you never intend to leave the uk that is true - if you plan to spend any time(and money) outside the uk, you have lost 30% of your income due to the pounds devaluation. the uk has done much for me - professionally and personally, as much as financially, so I feel sincerely bad for having to...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think you may be making the same mistake as those who trend the ftse 100 in pounds instead of dollars
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    there's anger from both sides. for me part of it is taking unnecessary damage. if someone did to my boat what brexitters did to much of my investment in the uk I'd shove a flare gun up his behind and pull the trigger. I should be objecting to it more in principle, but much of that is more long...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    apologies for going on, but in a sense your post makes much sense to me, as an immigrant, inasmuch as the uk has always treated Europe with antipathy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26515129 and usually wrongly - see post war recovery of Germany and France and the uk wanting to join to...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    yes, basically as I understand it, Renzi proposed constitutional reform that would have stabilised the Italian government by making thresholds for electing a president etc. higher - and the opposition - naturally - opposed that, vehemently, wanting thresholds to remain low in order to have more...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    here http://www.corriere.it/ it's Italy's biggest newspaper, reporting on the referendum, if your Italian is like mine patchy cut and paste it into a translator
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    that's a bit rich; you dislike my neutral objective post about Italy having 60 governments in 70 years and call others intolerant when they don't agree with your attempt to invest what's happening with an agenda about the breaking up of the eu? you're right about the average uk citizen being...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    but Italy has had 60 changes of government in 70 years, what's just happened is the norm in Italy. right wingers may try to leap on it as signs of the coming of the great white messiah, and liberals of a more neurotic bend than me may fear that its yet another sign of how dangerously racist and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    but its hard to decide whether it is more jingoistic rubbish or narcissistic self delusion. boris, hairy useless primate that he is, is of course an excellent example of a british education
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think turning a blind eye to corruption to promote ones own views amounts to crossing a line,ethically, I'm quite grateful not to have crossed.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    sometimes I wonder whether any brexiters have ever been employed? if you ran a business and the marketing manager, hypothetically, told your biggest customer to get lost and that you dislike his ethnicity. and the shares in the company took a 30% hit, would you say that?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    fair enough, that is where my denial kicks in (I find it impossible to think of May as a carbon based life form, let alone woman). Trump's hair is fascinating. beyond bizarre. either he has a sense of humour (unlikely) or vast grandiose delusions (more likely)
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    three? who on earth is the third? boris? analogy does come into it (Shakespeare's descriptions of Falstaff was about more than the physical)
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    speaking of orientation (and apologies for a bit of a tangent), have any of you tried VR? Im thinking of getting an HTC vive. one thing that's pretty clear to me is that as technology integrate a forum like this will inevitably become VR - both a written forum as well as amore three dimensional...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    sometimes I think brexit has a lot to do with repression. it is OK to find woman attractive, tillson. and as peter cook would point out if he were alive, label ones experience in whatever way one likes. that doesn't reflect on the woman in question. we do not all have to console ourselves with...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    well, no, you see once I get over the gag reflex of her being a politician; and the bilious feelings as I look at her and her entourage's bright smiles; I actually find her kind of hot, in a kind of toothy pornographic way