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  1. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Dominic Cummings and Leave Campaign worked out a simple ratio IIRC of 33% of folk wanting to stay or 33% remain come what may - the remaining swayers were heavily targetted by various dubious means to convince them that they could have an effect over some nebuleus overarching authority The govt/...
  2. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And that's a how a small minority of right wing extremists in the Tory Party swayed the Party and establishment and of folk who think themselves ordinary - from voting for Maggie* who built a bleeding great Tunnel to bring us closer to Europe and within a generation proposing to do an...
  3. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    In case it escaped you - the rise of the xenophobic extreme right is closely tied with scapegoating immigration and casting of a new underclass and in turn with blaming EU. Plus making Liberal seem like a dirty word. We try but it has this to contend with...
  4. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Because right wind extremists unhappy with their lot blame things on EU and migrants/others doesn't make it so - it seems to crop up every other generation or so after laying stagnant as important lessons seem to get forgotten and the unhealthy Nationalism is fueled by the likes of Trumps, ERGs...
  5. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Democracy (FvD) party of Thierry Baudet, a flamboyant former academic and columnist, is on course to win 12 seats in an upper house containing a record 12 parties, none with more than 12 seats. Analysts have said the populists’ improved performance will not easily be translated into increased...
  6. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I wonder if all the emergency govt staff hired (plus other companies in UK) for a no deal brexit are on zero hours contracts or on retainers...
  7. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What did the late A.A. Gill think about Brexit?
  8. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Daniel Kawczynski MP today jumped the ERG ship...
  9. Wicky

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    I believe so - but best check with Col at www.flidistribution.co.uk
  10. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Last day of term before the Summer break at St Theresa's Independent State Grammar School for Girls (and Boys) - who'll be left standing! It's like David Lynch's Twin Peaks saga or the appropriately called J.J. Abrams series Lost.
  11. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Zlatan if it's such a big problem to you write to Farage about lack of MEP minorities and see what he say's ;-) I don't think there were many minorities in UKIP when he was around and I suspect more so since Tommy... South East Region - 10 MEPs Who would you lose from 10 MEPs from South East...
  12. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Marc Francois - Nasty bit of work, noticed him getting airtime last couple of weeks. He was spitting feathers last night with the 1 vote win - then somebody in HoC reminded him '48-52' - he then went apoplectic. Bernard Jenkin part of that extreme hardcore leaver clique, is MP near to me...
  13. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Brexit Minister has just packed his bags and left along with another earlier today. Even though TM got her promise to resign sooner rather than later in first she might be the only one left remaining...
  14. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Tory MP Julian Lewis pressed for the UK to leave without a deal and to go onto World Trade Organisation terms. He said: “I, together with 158 of my colleagues – more than half of the Tory party – voted that we should leave on WTO terms and I think that should be the right solution.” If that's...
  15. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What on earth! 7 hours and she's saying the same old, same old - deja vu https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47794673 "I'm offering to sit down with the Leader of the Opposition to try to agree a plan that we would both stick to, to ensure that we leave the European Union and that we...
  16. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hopefully TM and the whole cabinet...
  17. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Baker_(politician) In February 2018, as a minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union he was forced to apologise after inaccurately claiming that civil servants had deliberately produced negative economic models to influence policy. Answering...
  18. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    YOUR GUIDE TO THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER. NAME: Boris Johnson AGE: 54 ABOUT: Looks like several dogs standing on each other's shoulders and wearing a coat in an attempt to get into a cinema to watch a film about a bum that's come to life. Looks like what would happen if the moon lost its job and...
  19. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Maybe if Labour stood for revoke - they'll lose some and win some... the whole condundrum of what different Political parties go for is a gamble as IMHO a lot of electorate has either taken their sides or just turned off by the whole process. As a cricketer the notion of brexit turning into...
  20. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    From small nuts did this Brexit nonsense begin... Good news this weekend as JRM on LBC going by comments his name his dirt (end of Mussolini seemed the consistent theme) to true hardcore Brexit believers for compromising and voting for May's half a loaf - Expect same for BJ - and local Tory's...