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Should UK stay in the EU?
Yes
58%
 58%  [ 14 ]
No
41%
 41%  [ 10 ]
Total Votes : 24

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Hod



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry. I voted, but I'm a Yank. Does that negate my Bray vote?

Bray = British stay in the European Union.

Cheers mate!
Cool
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Otterman Ollie



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2016 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
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



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scot47 wrote:
If Boris is unhappy with the outcome he can always go and live in the USA. He is a citizen.

Boris will make good companion with Trump: they look alike , share the same mop of blond hair, and they think alike.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2950787/Is-Donald-Trump-Boris-Johnson-reveals-mistaken-tycoon-New-York-claims-Americans-want-Queen-rule-US.html
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sheikh radlinrol



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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MI6agent wrote:
scot47 wrote:
If Boris is unhappy with the outcome he can always go and live in the USA. He is a citizen.

Boris will make good companion with Trump: they look alike , share the same mop of blond hair, and they think alike.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2950787/Is-Donald-Trump-Boris-Johnson-reveals-mistaken-tycoon-New-York-claims-Americans-want-Queen-rule-US.html

Welcome back Gregory (or 007).
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grahamb



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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sheikh radlinrol wrote:
Welcome back Gregory (or 007).


His latest username is a bit of a giveaway. Very Happy
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spiral78



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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clearly Rolling Eyes I wonder how long before this entity steps over the lines and gets booted? Shall we lay bets?
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