When it comes to likely Brexit deal, we've gone from 'exact same benefits', to 'frictionless trade', to some friction, to now a choice btw Canada style deal OR what govt is calling Australia deal which is not a deal, but WTO arrangement with tariffs and the Irish protocol
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Re: Brexit
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by ronmcd » Feb 03, 2020 5:41 pm
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Re: Brexit
#10342 by Scot Dutchy » Feb 03, 2020 6:40 pm
The offshore accounts are safe. 
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Re: Brexit
#10343 by ronmcd » Feb 04, 2020 1:35 am
Scottish independence voting intention:
Yes: 52%
No: 48%
via @Panelbase, 28 - 31 Jan
https://twitter.com/britainelects/statu ... 5151167489
Interesting graph.
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Re: Brexit
#10344 by Hermit » Feb 04, 2020 2:12 am
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Re: Brexit
#10345 by GrahamH » Feb 04, 2020 5:55 am
ronmcd wrote:Scottish independence voting intention:
Yes: 52%
No: 48%
Those numbers again!
Why do you think that?
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Re: Brexit
#10346 by Scot Dutchy » Feb 04, 2020 10:26 am
They almost look as if they are fiddled.
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Re: Brexit
#10348 by minininja » Feb 04, 2020 8:01 pm
ronmcd wrote:Scottish independence voting intention:
Yes: 52%
No: 48%
via @Panelbase, 28 - 31 Jan
https://twitter.com/britainelects/statu ... 5151167489
Interesting graph.
Quite a dip when there was the possibility of kicking the Tories out, but now they're set in power and pushing on with Brexit, I can't see it going back the other way again. Just a matter of when.
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Re: Brexit
#10350 by Svartalf » Feb 06, 2020 11:10 am
Depends, while Sassanach technically applies to 'Saxon' English folk, the term can serve for anybody not of Celtic stock.
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Re: Brexit
#10351 by Fallible » Feb 06, 2020 11:24 am
Which is just another technicality. Here, everyone knows it means English.
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Re: Brexit
#10352 by ronmcd » Feb 06, 2020 12:00 pm
Indeed. Although the two people who have used it in the last 2 pages were I'm guessing both English, referring in one case to "they" being Scotland? So taking offence might not make much sense 
If I'd used it, perhaps.
If I'd used it, perhaps.
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Re: Brexit
#10353 by Fallible » Feb 06, 2020 12:08 pm
I mean it’s an offensive term. It’s not a term of endearment.
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She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: Brexit
#10354 by Thomas Eshuis » Feb 06, 2020 12:48 pm
Fallible wrote:I mean it’s an offensive term. It’s not a term of endearment.
Outlander fans might disagree with you there...
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Re: Brexit
#10355 by Bubalus » Feb 06, 2020 2:09 pm
Fallible wrote:I mean it’s an offensive term. It’s not a term of endearment.
In Cork there's an English Market (in Gaelic An Margadh Sasanach)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Market
and I do not find it offensive
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Re: Brexit
#10356 by Fallible » Feb 06, 2020 2:55 pm
Sassenach
/ˈsasənax,ˈsasənak/
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DEROGATORY•SCOTTISH
noun
noun: Sassenach; plural noun: Sassenachs
an English person.
adjective
adjective: Sassenach
English.
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Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: Brexit
#10357 by ronmcd » Feb 06, 2020 3:05 pm
Fallible wrote:I mean it’s an offensive term. It’s not a term of endearment.
Sure, agreed. I'm just suggesting an English person using it referring to "they might keep out the sassenachs ha ha" isn't being used as an insult.
Like me saying England might build a wall to keep out the jocks, ha ha.
Anyway, I wasn't actually involved in this spat.
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Re: Brexit
#10358 by Bubalus » Feb 06, 2020 3:42 pm
ronmcd wrote:Fallible wrote:I mean it’s an offensive term. It’s not a term of endearment.
Sure, agreed. I'm just suggesting an English person using it referring to "they might keep out the sassenachs ha ha" isn't being used as an insult.
Like me saying England might build a wall to keep out the jocks, ha ha.
Anyway, I wasn't actually involved in this spat.
Being the English person involved - you're correct, I wasn't using it as an insult.
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Re: Brexit
#10359 by Fallible » Feb 06, 2020 4:12 pm
No one said you were...
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: Brexit
#10360 by Bubalus » Feb 06, 2020 5:09 pm
Fallible wrote:No one said you were...
Sorry if I got the wrong impression, but that's what I thought you were implying - my mistake
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