Boris in Stafford

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Where did they get all those people in Market Square from? I thought the Zombie thing wasn't till Saturday?

I guess they are the Tory voters that got us into this mess, wondered where they were hiding! An exit vote gives our government free reign, I'd welcome it if I trusted our government to act in the interests of the governed rather than their own. To me the timing of this could hardly be worse, I'd have preferred it as part of a general election.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
I'd have preferred it as part of a general election.
Why?

Do you seriously think any of them can be trusted, regardless of what political party they claim to represent?

At the end if the day all politicians represent one party and one party only. The Self-Interest Party.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Why?

Do you seriously think any of them can be trusted, regardless of what political party they claim to represent?

At the end if the day all politicians represent one party and one party only. The Self-Interest Party.
Generally -

A Liberal vote is a vote to stay.

A Labour vote is a vote to almost certainly stay after some discussion amongst themselves.

A Tory vote is a vote to do whatever whichever faction of the Tory party that "wins" the referendum has up it's sleeve.
 

Withnail

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Generally -
A Labour vote is a vote to almost certainly stay after some discussion amongst themselves.
Labour has long had a 'Eurosceptic' element - just not one as rabid as, and divisive as, the Tory one.

It is difficult to argue with Hezzers summation of Boris the bouffanted bufoon - he's going bananas in front of our very eyes.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Labour has long had a 'Eurosceptic' element - just not one as rabid as, and divisive as, the Tory one.
It has been getting steadily less so - for the first referendum, there was a bit more (open) dissent in Labour than in the Tories.

Few people might imagine that Thatcher campaigned to stay in that time....

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Withnail

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Few people might imagine that Thatcher campaigned to stay in that time....
But how would she have felt had she known,some forty years later, that it would only be possible to buy two, or possibly three, bananas at a time?

As a Grocer's daughter?

And what of the talismanic Churchill? He of the nodding bulldog toy on the back shelf of stupid people's cars? Would he really have said -
... If Europe is to be saved from infinite misery, and indeed from final doom, there must be an act of faith in the European family...
- had he known that almost exactly eighty years later he would be unable to buy more than two, or possibly three, bananas in one financial transaction?

I think we all know the answer to these questions. And that is bananas.
 
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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
And what of the talismanic Churchill? He of the nodding bulldog toy on the back shelf of stupid people's cars? Would he really have said -

- had he known that almost exactly eighty years later he would be unable to buy more than two, or possibly three, bananas in one financial transaction?

I think we all know the answer to these questions. And that is bananas.
He might not have proposed a United States of Europe way back in 1946..?

Winnie said:
We must build a United States of Europe.

http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html
 

Withnail

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Maths was never my strongest suit - i'd eat an extra banana to boost my mental capacities had i not already eaten my allotted two, or possibly three.
 

Withnail

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Do you reckon it's just a coincidence that that blue banana sort of follows the trajectory of Protestantism in Europe in the C. 16th/17th? Could this banana hold some sort of historic key to the future prosperity of the non-blue, and lets face it distinctly 'Catholic-y', bits of the map?

Or is it equally likely that the areas in blue correspond with populations with ease of access to > two, or possibly three, bananas at a time?

I must ask Boris next time he's in Stafford - i'm sure he'd be most illuminating on the subject.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Why?

Do you seriously think any of them can be trusted, regardless of what political party they claim to represent?

At the end if the day all politicians represent one party and one party only. The Self-Interest Party.

No, but I trust the current bastards less than anyone, ever. I want to vote to leave, but I can't face doing it with them in charge as I dread to think what else they'd sell without oversight (especially as they're eying up scrapping the house of Lords). Current labour are merely potential bastards, current conservatives are proven.
 
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