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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    nope, that doesn't cut it either. try again.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ah but that's not answering the question is it? my educated guess is that you're trying to purge yourself. you know, the way the body purges itself through vomiting, excrement. it's not a complete tangent - brexit has much to do with trying to expel the hate, anger inside as well. blaming...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    now that's a much more bannerable slogan for that march on parliament. are you familiar with the term lexical leaking? you know like Falstaff in henry 4 part 2? being Oxbridge educated I felt sure you would be. google it if you're not. its about the way the metaphors, figurative language people...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    this is me becoming hysterical, but tilson did say I was "a purveyor of lies and A clown", so citizens I have one nudging nationalist nigel to go. would make a great ambassadorial shoe in.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    it's tricky, tertiary education, like work, is an experience that shapes people - how it shapes them has much to do with their ability to change, learn, become more open, better informed, see over the parapet. in my life on balance I'd agree that work after education has shaped and taught me...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    that's quite funny (i mean it, specially the "purveyor of lies and a clown" bit, I would bet a very cheap half bottle of Chablis you acquired that turn of phrase from an Oxbridge education). it would make a great slogan for a banner as you march on parliament (perhaps replacing "derf" with...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    make that "farage's brown shirt" not "shirts" marching on parliament..
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    great stuff, I realise we should somehow try to empathise with our cognitively challenged fellow citizens (if for no other reason than to prevent farage's brown shirts marching on what's left of that pile of crud next to the thames where the corrupt gather after brexit fails), but try as I might...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    To me its a symptom of a UK economy,culture that underscores the difference between Britain and Nordic countries,where income tax raises much more money for the state for being a much higher rate charged as a flat rate from a much lower income...
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    A new hub to beat Rohloff?

    and 526% versus 544% and rohloffs are very robust,it's what makes them better all things being equal than say shimano 11 speed. It's great but I'd give it a year or two
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    whoever thought politics was contrived and manipulative under the professional Westminster elite, or Hillarie's before is in for a master class in dishonest self promotion. we live in a bizarre time. I wouldn't be surprised if the Donald tells us who we thinks should be our next prime minister...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    even if we get our lovely fellow brexit citizens to swallow their pride and acknowledge they've made a mistake of collosal magnitude, there is the matter of Europe, the recent panorama programme about the way citizens and governments of eu countries feel about brexit and the uk (begrudged would...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    May open to transitional deal to avoid ‘cliff edge’ Brexit Prime minister seeks to calm business fears over damaging exit from EU Is Hammond too gloomy about Brexit? [/paste:font]24 minutes ago Theresa May addresses the CBI conference on Monday © EPA Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Whatsapp Print...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    here's a non ft version http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3956492/British-PM-May-unveil-industrial-strategy-spur-ambitious-ideas.html
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    and finally may is realising its up the creek without a paddle as well https://www.ft.com/content/5922b3ba-afce-11e6-a37c-f4a01f1b0fa1 one needs to suspend any schadenfreude, gloating - this is after all the captain of the titanic finally extracting her snout from the dessert and muttering...
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    Do ebikes take the fun out of cycling ?

    ultimately yes, there is no substitute for only moving by ones own energy, which can become a spiritual things, which ebikes never can for me. but, an ebike can be a vital step back to being fit enough to effectively use an ordinary bike, if one has a regular 11 mile commute for example, as I do...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    though I can imagine they may well feel their dealing with a gormless adolescent, when there is a suggestion of hard brexit, mail online says the eu is trying to scapegoat uk...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    this is an almost complete tangent, but I was chatting to a friend about a significant article in political science by a guy called francis fukuyama ("the end of history") which hypothesised back in the 1990's that it was the end of ideology in the world, that we'd all become happy consumers in...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    one unhelpful part is that ms may is a lack of conviction politician in the Hillary mould who leaves the electorate riding a tsunami of opinion polls, sorry referendums. I was about to add that a good written constitution may have helped (say with clauses specifying that a two thirds majority in...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    though I don't mind at all that my tax money is used for overseas aid/welfare. much of the uk's income is from the effort of overseas workers (companies based here with activity offshore), not to mention the way globalisation makes it impossible to draw national boundaries around production. and...