** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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pete75 wrote:Traditionally electric vehicles made enough noise from the milk bottles rattling in their crates. :wink:

"Was that the trees a-rustling? Or the hinges of the gate?
Or Ernie's ghostly gold tops a-rattling in their crate?"
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kwackers wrote:
pete75 wrote:Traditionally electric vehicles made enough noise from the milk bottles rattling in their crates. :wink:

"Was that the trees a-rustling? Or the hinges of the gate?
Or Ernie's ghostly gold tops a-rattling in their crate?"


You're showing your age now :D

Tecnically speaking; Ernie, the fastest milkman in the West, had a horse driven cart not electric :wink:

But talking of Benny Hill... [and getting back on topic]

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Debs wrote:
kwackers wrote:
pete75 wrote:Traditionally electric vehicles made enough noise from the milk bottles rattling in their crates. :wink:

"Was that the trees a-rustling? Or the hinges of the gate?
Or Ernie's ghostly gold tops a-rattling in their crate?"


You're showing your age now :D

Tecnically speaking; Ernie, the fastest milkman in the West, had a horse driven cart not electric :wink:

But talking of Benny Hill... [and getting back on topic]

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What has poor old Benny done to deserve that??? :wink:
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Gandalf to the rescue.
" even the wise cannot see all ends".
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pete75 wrote:
windmiller wrote:potd-corbyn_3457949b.jpg

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Nor this one


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Adolph? add a mostaches someone?
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Yes these were the experts who guided us to one of the worst crisis this country has known...….the very experts one of whom Michael Gove indicated but refused to name any economists who backed Britain’s exit from the European Union, saying that “people in this country have had enough of experts”.

I presume he was referring to the experts below who we can restrict from entering once we take back control;

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or perhaps it was MEP's of the Brexit Party that turned their backs in the opening session of the European parliament when 'Ode to Joy' was played https://www.usnews.com/news/world/artic ... parliament watch the intellectual giants of the Brexit party MEP's turn their backs on the European Parliament https://youtu.be/j1OGW19fjpU
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stu1102 wrote:Yes these were the experts who guided us to one of the worst crisis this country has known...….the very experts one of whom Michael Gove indicated but refused to name any economists who backed Britain’s exit from the European Union, saying that “people in this country have had enough of experts”.

I presume he was referring to the experts below who we can restrict from entering once we take back control;

Don't forget though it turns out that brexitears apparently all knew it was nonsense and thus weren't conned and in fact thought at the time that most of the bad stuff was a price worth paying for the as yet unknown future.
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kwackers wrote:Don't forget though it turns out that brexitears apparently all knew it was nonsense and thus weren't conned and in fact thought at the time that most of the bad stuff was a price worth paying for the as yet unknown future.

It's plausible that there were a few who believed all the Remainer warnings, knew that all the Brexiter reassurances were a lot of rubbish, but voted to leave anyway, for their own reasons. But to think that it is any more than a tiny minority is to dismiss the whole advertising industry, a huge body of psychological research, and all the conversations, interviews, vox-pops and social media posts in which we were told we'd be better off.
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remember 500 of the 600 or so MPs voted to activate article 50. only 100 or so including my MP voted against it. so its not just the stupid Brexit-eer plebs that need to be chastised. There needs to be a judgement day of reckoning for those 500 mps? That includes Corbyn?
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mercalia wrote:remember 500 of the 600 or so MPs voted to activate article 50. only 100 or so including my MP voted against it. so its not just the stupid Brexit-eer plebs that need to be chastised. There needs to be a judgement day of reckoning for those 500 mps? That includes Corbyn?

I believe it does.
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I see that farmers and fishermen are being offered millions by Hunt and Johnson to ease the transition. This is just a bit different to the deal which we were promised would be so seamless we wouldn't know the difference.
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windmiller wrote:potd-corbyn_3457949b.jpg

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That was Corbyn's look of amazement and anticipation when he heard he'd just been elected leader of the Labour Party by its overwhelmingly pro-EU membership despite his well-documented decades of anti-EU sentiment.
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Democracy has been kept waiting long enough now, time to get on with leaving the EU. Calling the majority of the voting population plebs is actually what most of us are. However anti -democracy types who are mostly remainers use the term as an insult.
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windmiller wrote:Democracy has been kept waiting long enough now, time to get on with leaving the EU. Calling the majority of the voting population plebs is actually what most of us are. However anti -democracy types who are mostly remainers use the term as an insult.


Funny, but the only people advocating suspending parliamentary democracy are leavers.
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