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The Honourable Member for the Nineteenth Century is on his way.
 
Dave said:
As almost everything coming out of his mouth is a lie it shouldn't be too hard for him.
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If you don’t me asking, are you British? and if so, English, Scot, Welsh or Irish.
 
Arthur said:
Not now. Only after the Wet Tories and a Labour regime drag Britain back to the 18th C.
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I think most of Corbyn's Labour only want to go back to the 1970's, though a few people seem to think Corbyn himself might have a soft spot for 1917 ;)
 
Dave said:
I think most of Corbyn's Labour only want to go back to the 1970's, though a few people seem to think Corbyn himself might have a soft spot for 1917 ;)
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The choice is therefore between returning to Downton Abbey or Price and Prejudice!
 
The_Assimilator said:
I fear the "NHS 350 million pounds" card won't work as well a second time around, so I wonder what new lies he'll come up with?
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Dave said:
As almost everything coming out of his mouth is a lie it shouldn't be too hard for him.
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One would expect gents so seemingly bothered by lies not to indulge in them so easily, fyi, Farage never made the above claim and Leave.eu is not an organization Farage belongs to either.

Damn those facts :D
 
The_Assimilator said:
Why, exactly, would you expect the EU to be flexible or accommodating in any way, shape or form, after the UK has essentially just given it a big fat middle finger?

I'm dead serious. If you can give me a decent answer that doesn't boil down to "common decency", I'm willing to hear it. Because there ain't no decency in politics, boyo.
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The "how very dare you!" sanctimony is also hilarious given the amount of outright lies they've spread about the EU and the endless hostility.
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
One would expect gents so seemingly bothered by lies not to indulge in them so easily, fyi, Farage never made the above claim and Leave.eu is not an organization Farage belongs to either.

Damn those facts :D
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Yes, you shouldn't really indulge in lies...

Video evidence emerges of Nigel Farage pledging EU millions for NHS weeks before Brexit vote

Video evidence has emerged of Nigel Farage saying EU cash should be spent on the National Health Service after Brexit.

The Ukip leader on Friday morning denied having endorsed a pledge to spend Britain’s EU contribution on the NHS just hours after the referendum results came in.

He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that the pledge came from others in the Leave campaign and that it was their “mistake” to loudly earmark £350 million for the health service during the campaign.

However footage from BBC Question Time on 9 June – just weeks before the referendum – shows the Ukip leader claiming the available cash was higher than £350 million and saying money should be spent on hospitals and GPs.

“Can we just get to the truth of this - £350 million a week is wrong, it’s higher than that,” he told the programme’s audience.

“FACT – absolute fact – from the official statistics cross-checked from the EU: we pay £55 million a day as a contribution. Some of that is the rebate which doesn’t go but our gross contribution is £55 million a day.”

“We should spend that money here, in our own country, on our own people,” he added.

“Do you know what I’d like to do with the £10 billion? I’d like that £10 billion to be spent helping the communities in Britain that [the] Government damaged so badly by opening up the doors to former communist countries. What people need is schools, hospitals, and GPs. That’s what they need.”
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There's even video of him at the link:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...unds-live-health-service-u-turn-a7102831.html
 
Jeremy Hunt replaces Boris Johnson amid Brexit turmoil

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been named as the new foreign secretary after Boris Johnson quit, accusing Mrs May of pursuing a "semi-Brexit".

His departure followed that of Brexit Secretary David Davis and several junior ministers.

Culture Secretary Matt Hancock replaces Mr Hunt as health secretary.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44774702


I think Hunt is probably a more able person for Foreign Secretary, anyway.
 
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1016392866699137024

This is what happens when you have men in government who've been raised from birth to believe it's someone else's job to clean up after them. They throw tantrums when they finally make a mess no-one can fix. #Brexit
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I wonder, is the true reason for Boris Johnson quitting that he doesn't want to be blamed if/when things go wrong? Did he realise what a mess they've created and that it can't be fixed and now he wants to save face by getting out before things get really ugly?
 
Humberto said:
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1016392866699137024



I wonder, is the true reason for Boris Johnson quitting that he doesn't want to be blamed if/when things go wrong? Did he realise what a mess they've created and that it can't be fixed and now he wants to save face by getting out before things get really ugly?
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So he can take a run for May’s job and I’m sure he’s well aware of his mess... just doesn’t care one bit.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/09/labour-poised-to-vote-down-brexit-deal

Downing Street has calculated it will need Labour MPs if the deal has a chance of passing in November. It began laying the groundwork on Monday when opposition MPs were invited to a briefing on the Chequers proposal, scheduled to be presented by the Downing Street chief of staff, Gavin Barwell. Starmer encouraged Labour MPs to attend to make their criticism of the deal known.

Barwell never made it to the meeting, one of the first signs that Boris Johnson’s resignation as foreign secretary was imminent. Instead, the presentation was led by the Cabinet Office minister, David Lidington, and Jonathan Black, one of the directors at the cabinet office’s Europe unit. The committee room in the Houses of Parliament was crammed with peers and MPs but, just minutes into the briefing, it descended into chaos when word of Johnson’s resignation emerged.

MPs leaving the room said they were convinced that Lidington had not known that Johnson had resigned while the briefing was ongoing. “There was a moment during the presentation when it flashed on everyone’s phones, everyone burst out laughing. And then someone showed him the message,” one said. Lidington was tight-lipped as he left the room.

“What a joke, what a joke,” one senior Labour MP muttered on the way out.

Another described it as “the most surreal meeting ever” as they left the room. “They are presenting a deal which is collapsing in front of our eyes. The projector doesn’t work. All anyone is talking about is Boris. It’s like The Thick of It.”
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:crylaugh:
 
Dave said:
Unlike you who's an Australian pretending to be from Britain I'm not actually from (or in) Sunderland and you really shouldn't try and act on an in joke between people who have some respect for each other.

Interesting to see you are actually being a TK peeping tom though...
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Bwahahaha!!!
 
f2wohf said:
In addition of blatantly not being able to count!


Even Turkey is ahead since 2017, France has always been far far ahead.
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