Brexit, for once some facts.

50Hertz

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No Brexit related, but this could help someone.

I’m hearing on the news that if you’ve got racist shoes, they can be worth up to $1500, and are likely to increase in value! So if your shoes aren’t racist, buying a pair might make a good investment.

As a minimum, it might be worth checking your shoes for racism, you could be sitting, or should I say, standing, on a nice little bonus.
 

50Hertz

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They don't make the decisions so don't need balance, they implement them. Decisions have to be accepted by the democratically elected European Parliament.

Amazing how little the critics of the EU understand about it.
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Thank you for educating me regarding this aspect of the EU.
 

flecc

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Oh yes, I’d forgotten that Lord Mangledbum had help an EU position. Wasn’t he involved in dodgy goings on? Something to do with mortgage irregularities?
"He was undone on that occasion by the revelation that he had bought a fashionable home in Notting Hill, with the help of an interest-free £373,000 loan from his millionaire ministerial colleague Geoffrey Robinson.
When Mr Mandelson filled in a Britannia Building Society mortgage form to buy the house in 1996 he had failed to mention the loan. Nor did it appear on his entry in the Commons Register of Interests."

Hardly the crime of the century and completely outclassed by many Tory serious irregularities which amounted to downright theft leading to prison sentences.

The only reason Mandelson resigned then when prompted was because Tony Blair had promised that his government would be whiter than white.
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oldgroaner

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No Brexit related, but this could help someone.

I’m hearing on the news that if you’ve got racist shoes, they can be worth up to $1500, and are likely to increase in value! So if your shoes aren’t racist, buying a pair might make a good investment.

As a minimum, it might be worth checking your shoes for racism, you could be sitting, or should I say, standing, on a nice little bonus.
Are these the ones you allude to?


Ye Gods,, genuine Kitsch
 
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flecc

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No Brexit related, but this could help someone.

I’m hearing on the news that if you’ve got racist shoes, they can be worth up to $1500, and are likely to increase in value! So if your shoes aren’t racist, buying a pair might make a good investment.

As a minimum, it might be worth checking your shoes for racism, you could be sitting, or should I say, standing, on a nice little bonus.
It wasn't only the Nike so called "Nazi" flag shoes that have offended, the Katy Perry ones on this link have been accused of racism.

Storms in teacups, I've seen more offensive things on peoples T shirts.
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50Hertz

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Are these the ones you allude to?


Ye Gods,, genuine Kitsch
No, but they are a great pair of shoes.

The racist shoes I was referring to are manufactured by Nike. They have an old, 13 state US flag emblem on them to celebrate American independence. Fortunately a clown has decided that this is racist, so the value of the shoe has shot up.

I’m hanging onto a pair of old Dunlop Green Flash incase they become racist plimsolls one day.
 
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oyster

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Do BJ & JH know?

No-deal Brexit could hit Christmas supply of toys, says Sainsbury's
Supermarket believes October deadline is ‘not far off the worst day possible’ for retailers
 
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50Hertz

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Plimsolls. Now there's a word that immediately ages the user.

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There’s nothing wrong with a pair of Empire Made plimsolls. I still remember that phrase moulded onto the sole. That would have been around 1970.

I guess Empire Made indicated that they were made in India by people earning nothing.
 
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Danidl

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There’s nothing wrong with a pair of Empire Made plimsolls. I still remember that phrase moulded onto the sole. That would have been around 1970.

I guess Empire Made indicated that they were made in India by people earning nothing.
Actually there was a lot wrong with them.. no arch support, no ventilation, so after a days use they stink...
 
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additional troops lined up against BJ's no deal brexit from September:

Hammond, Stewart, Gauke, Greg Clark and possibly TM.
Remain may have a chance.
 

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