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[m]

As ever, or more than ever?

Not sure I've ever told a Leaver to "get f#cked"

You should.

Verrry liberating.

 

[bazzer9461]

You should.

Verrry liberating.

But it’s the reply you get #¥+! Off

 

[Essexyellows]

As good a place as any for this poll that throws Brexit, BJ and SKS into the melting pot!

https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/half-public-think-britain-heading-wrong-direction

 

[m]

As good a place as any for this poll that throws Brexit, BJ and SKS into the melting pot!

https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/half-public-think-britain-heading-wrong-direction

I haven't read it all but there's not much we can do about plate tectonics.

 

[Marked Ox]

Why do we have to keep signing up to these harmful free trade deals?!! Why aren’t the Government strong enough to put tariff protects in for British sheep farmers?

UK agrees free trade deal with New Zealand

The government says consumers and businesses will benefit from deal, but it is unlikely to boost growth.

www.bbc.co.uk

#sunnyuplandswinning

 

[Sheik djibouti]

As good a place as any for this poll that throws Brexit, BJ and SKS into the melting pot!

https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/half-public-think-britain-heading-wrong-direction

Yeah....but....steady on the rudder and all that

 

[Essexyellows]

Yeah....but....steady on the rudder and all that

The rudder may well be steady, but is the direction of travel suitable?........ two different things intrinsically linked.

 

[QR]

How did they manage to go to Germany so many times when the UK wasn't in the EU

It was either by plane or boat. I'm pretty sure they didn't walk.

Oh, what's your point?

 

[QR]

How did the Beatles become so big without the EU?

Lots and lots and lots of people bought their records (it was pre CD to help as you seem to struggling with imagining the past) because they thought the were a cool beat combo.

What's your point again?

 

[QR]

How did musicians go on tour before 1973/

Cars, trucks, boats etc (you get the picture).

What's was your point?

 

[chuckbert]

Not sure I've ever told a Leaver to "get f#cked"

That’s because you’re morally inferior.

 

[Sheik djibouti]

That’s because you’re morally inferior.

Practically morally moribund, me

 

[RyanioBirdio]

People didn’t have the internet until 20-25 years ago. If you turned it off now or put heavy restrictions on how / how often it could be used or accessed it would be a really big deal. The world has changed and become rather dependant on it. Using the argument of “it was all fine x years ago” or “however did we cope before?” never cuts it. We didn’t used to have electricity but I wouldn’t fancy turning that off. My grandmother still remembers a world where half the houses near her didn’t have it, hardly anybody had a telephone even if they did, and the television was still years away from being a thing. It’s all relative.

I wouldn’t mind going back to a world before Little Mix, mind. (I’m just trying to sound cool. I dance to their records whenever I’m on my own.)

 

[bazzer9461]

It was either by plane or boat. I'm pretty sure they didn't walk.

Oh, what's your point?

Must have been a Yellow Submarine

 

[QR]

Must have been a Yellow Submarine

Bum! Wish I'd thought of that.

 

[Sheik djibouti]

Bum! Wish I'd thought of that.

But they couldn't have gone to Germany in a Yellow Submarine....it hadn't been invented by then....

altogether now: "Wir alle leben in einem gelben U-Boot"

 

[Marked Ox]

People didn’t have the internet until 20-25 years ago. If you turned it off now or put heavy restrictions on how / how often it could be used or accessed it would be a really big deal. The world has changed and become rather dependant on it. Using the argument of “it was all fine x years ago” or “however did we cope before?” never cuts it. We didn’t used to have electricity but I wouldn’t fancy turning that off. My grandmother still remembers a world where half the houses near her didn’t have it, hardly anybody had a telephone even if they did, and the television was still years away from being a thing. It’s all relative.

I wouldn’t mind going back to a world before Little Mix, mind. (I’m just trying to sound cool. I dance to their records whenever I’m on my own.)

It is the Jacob Rees-Mogg Syndrome.

For example, it was better in Victorian times with the workhouses, capital punishment for petty crimes, horrific slum inner city/overcrowded housing, mass exploitation of the poor, no workers rights or national health system etc etc. A great time to be poor that would have been.

 

[QR]

What a boost!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1451127306345451520

 

[Marked Ox]

What a boost!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1451127306345451520

Saw that earlier and it made me chuckle.

 

[LowerSouth]

So, on one hand, our government is actively encouraging ( paying) farmers not to grow crops, rear livestock,yet then signing trade deals to import beef from the other side of the world.

Feckin nuts.