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Should UK stay in the EU? |
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Hod
Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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Well yes. So are the tories to blame for this, fluffyhamster?
Seems to me, if you don't like tories, which is your right, you can vote against them in about four years. After that, just in case you change your mind, you can vote differently five years later.
But this referendum thing probably won't come along every five years. Maybe your tempting vote deserves more thought than your dislike of the latest party in power. |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 3292 Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:26 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, to blame for what? People voting Tory? Possibly. For patronizing people on an ESL forum? Probably. Or for patronizing and disaffecting 98% of a respected, mainly middle-class profession (and no, I'm not referring to teachers)? Most definitely. |
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wangdaning
Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 3154
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 7:37 am Post subject: |
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Hod wrote: |
But this referendum thing probably won't come along every five years. |
My guess. if not passed now, it will be coming back. However, I am a yank and not allowed to vote. |
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Hod
Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:16 am Post subject: |
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Just as I'm not allowed to vote for all that USA stuff you like such as those guns your lovely well-balanced friend keeps under his sofa cushions.
wangdaning wrote: |
if not passed now, it will be coming back. |
This referendum idea doesn't really "get passed". Ordinary people just turn up and vote. |
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sheikh radlinrol
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 11:58 am Post subject: |
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wangdaning wrote: |
Hod wrote: |
But this referendum thing probably won't come along every five years. |
My guess. if not passed now, it will be coming back. However, I am a yank and not allowed to vote. |
I suspect that you are right. If Brexit fails this time, its supporters might demand another referendum ASAP, just as the defeated Scottish separatists are now doing. |
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Guerciotti
Joined: 13 Feb 2009 Posts: 842 Location: In a sleazy bar killing all the bad guys.
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry. I voted, but I'm a Yank. Does that negate my Bray vote?
Bray = British stay in the European Union.
Cheers mate!
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Otterman Ollie
Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 1067 Location: South Western Turkey
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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Well I want out, haven't lived there for more than 20 years so that makes me ineligble, but anyone coming over on a boat or through a tunnel has got more rights than me, perhaps after the dust has settled and the U.K are no longer strangled by E.U laws they may be able to get somewhere!
Why do people keep knocking the present goverment? Yeah, they are tories, so bleeding what!
when was the last time a labour government did anything to feel good about?
Do these idiots want to see that clown Corbyn and his leftist goons running the place into the ground????/ |
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Hod
Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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fluffy blames the tories when the photocopier's empty or he mislays a board marker. If you ask him why, three meandering sentences follow. |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 3292 Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 9:04 am Post subject: |
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I'd imagine some language schools now require teachers to pay for photocopies and board markers. Anyway, from a LT perspective, what has the EU ever done for us? Produced a 260-page document (the CEF) that took 10 years and countless working groups and committees to produce? (But actually, you can take that either way).
See? Meandering as hell, and all about the Tories. Just be thankful it isn't 3 chapters this time! |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 3292 Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Do these idiots want to see that clown Corbyn and his leftist goons running the place into the ground???? |
No, I think we can safely leave that to that Tories, eh!!!! |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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If Boris is unhappy with the outcome he can always go and live in the USA. He is a citizen. |
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MI6agent
Joined: 16 Apr 2016 Posts: 87 Location: Dark Web
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sheikh radlinrol
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome back Gregory (or 007). |
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grahamb
Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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sheikh radlinrol wrote: |
Welcome back Gregory (or 007). |
His latest username is a bit of a giveaway. |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Clearly I wonder how long before this entity steps over the lines and gets booted? Shall we lay bets? |
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