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Should The Taxpayer Be Asked To Pay
for Big Ben to bong on 31st January, for exit from EU>
or as Boris suggested crowd fund it. Likely cost half a million
quid, would it be worth it, whoever pays.
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or as Boris suggested crowd fund it. Likely cost half a million
quid, would it be worth it, whoever pays.
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Naomi; "Has it gone away?" Unfortunately, Naomi, in some areas it hasn't. No matter how one voted, we are leaving on Jan 31 but to ring the bell to celebrate would just antagonize those who voted remain and give the Brexiteers another occasion for bragging rights. We are leaving, but to ask the whole country to rejoice in this (as AOG suggests) is nonsense. There are just as many rabid Remainers as there are Bolshy Brexiteers. Those who wish to mark the occasion should organise street parties or booze-ups. The rest should just get on with their lives.
By the way, BA ought to go to TTT @ 0946.
By the way, BA ought to go to TTT @ 0946.
It is obviously a cause for celebration that we are leaving. But it's a bit more than that. For the last three and a half years the liberal elite in this country has castigated those who voted to leave, calling them everything from pig ignorant to racists. They were determined from day one to thwart the result of the referendum by any means possible, disguising it as concern for the manner of leaving when in fact it was nothing of the sort. Those wishing to leave have thus had to fight two battles - one to secure the referendum result and another to see it implemented. But still it goes on. Yesterday, during the debate on the Withdrawal Bill in the House of Lords, "Liberal Democrat" peer Lord Greaves said this:
"People [Remainers] are moaning, people are crying at night when they go to sleep, they are crying in the morning when they wake up,"
But even more disgracefully:
"I am fearful on the 31st January that some things may happen in some places which could be reminiscent of things happening in Germany in the early 1930s."
His ludicrous melodrama relating tales of people crying themselves to sleep can be dismissed as just that – fanciful nonsense worthy only of a pantomime. But his comparison of the UK in 2020 to Nazi Germany in the 1930s goes beyond the pale. The man is a disgrace and he embodies everything about the party that has probably done more than any other to maintain a schism in the nation.
The time for the country to come together was on 24th June 2016. That was the time they should have been told that the decision was made and that we would be leaving the EU forthwith. Instead there followed more than three years of the most disgraceful political shenanigans I have witnessed, brought about by a Parliament which asked the electorate a question and didn’t like the answer it received.
That is the greater reason why the Leave side has cause to celebrate. It finally defeated a liberal and Metropolitan elite. An elite that not only thought it knew best but was determined to overturn the largest single issue mandate provided to a Parliament this country has ever seen, insulting 17m people into the bargain.
"People [Remainers] are moaning, people are crying at night when they go to sleep, they are crying in the morning when they wake up,"
But even more disgracefully:
"I am fearful on the 31st January that some things may happen in some places which could be reminiscent of things happening in Germany in the early 1930s."
His ludicrous melodrama relating tales of people crying themselves to sleep can be dismissed as just that – fanciful nonsense worthy only of a pantomime. But his comparison of the UK in 2020 to Nazi Germany in the 1930s goes beyond the pale. The man is a disgrace and he embodies everything about the party that has probably done more than any other to maintain a schism in the nation.
The time for the country to come together was on 24th June 2016. That was the time they should have been told that the decision was made and that we would be leaving the EU forthwith. Instead there followed more than three years of the most disgraceful political shenanigans I have witnessed, brought about by a Parliament which asked the electorate a question and didn’t like the answer it received.
That is the greater reason why the Leave side has cause to celebrate. It finally defeated a liberal and Metropolitan elite. An elite that not only thought it knew best but was determined to overturn the largest single issue mandate provided to a Parliament this country has ever seen, insulting 17m people into the bargain.
// For the last three and a half years the liberal elite in this country has castigated those who voted to leave, calling them everything from pig ignorant to racists.//
yup guilty as charged
stupid, liars, ( remember the bus NJ?) inco,petents and not able to poss into a pit
is there any evidence we are wrong?
yup guilty as charged
stupid, liars, ( remember the bus NJ?) inco,petents and not able to poss into a pit
is there any evidence we are wrong?
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