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Big Daddy wrote:I think BD might have "going solid' on the brain and have got a little confused between two threads :rol: :rol:
Depths of depravity... :roll:
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Brilliant parody... :thumbs:
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Don't Know if anyone looks at the 'have your say ' forums on the BBC News site ?
There's some scarey people on there..left and right.. and the more controversial posts seem to get censored. What a divided country we seem to have become, and the old tradition of agreeing to disagree over a beer seems to have gone. It's a right shame I think :(
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SteveClem wrote:What a divided country we seem to have become...
Keep hearing about our divided country. But I'm not convinced that it's really changed, just those differences have been emphasised by recent events.

I hated the awful grey drabness of the Major/Blair/Brown/Cameron years. Europe wears that mantle with so many national coalition governments which are just another shade of grey but offer no real alternative. That's not democracy, just a weak substitute.

Now British politics has become exciting again with some real alternatives :thumbs:
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Just an EU observation except power extends way beyond our/their elected officials... :whistle:
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It was always going to be a rocky road, and complicated by party politics. Back in the '70's I voted for a free trade area,not a European megastate that was patently non democratic. I still think that our national instinct was probably correct at the referendum. Time will tell.
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SteveClem wrote:Back in the '70's I voted for a free trade area...
I voted in favour of EEC free trade area in 1975 because it seemed the obvious choice.

But we have been cheated by its escalation into an undemocratic political union which I would never have voted for. Perhaps I was just too naive to realise what would happen... :roll:

In anything but the short term, UK must be better off away from this EU fiasco... :thumbs:
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:iagree: but with a certain show of reluctance (quote from 'Ruddigore'...)
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Quote from Mikhail Gorbachev who is in a better position than most, to make this observation... :whistle:
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PS. Should we rename this thread? It is getting a bit political now :whistle:
And old Gorby is about spot on,I suspect!
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Brexit could be halted if Labour used its next general election manifesto to commit to not leaving the EU... :whistle:

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Can't see that happening. The weird beard hates the EU. Sees it as some capitalist plot to deprive the striving proletariat of something or another.
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SteveClem wrote:The weird beard hates the EU. Sees it as some capitalist plot to deprive the striving proletariat of something or another.
Sounds fairly accurate... :whistle:
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