Ironclad wrote:Fuck Witherspoon. Traditional pubs die wherever Witherspoon tread.

Brexit MEP mocked for complaining UK will not be represented in the EU after leaving

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/b ... spartanntp

Svartalf wrote:I don't get it, He's a brexiteer full and avowed, he wants to leave the EU, and he wants to keep representation? How much is he willing that the UK should contribute annually to the EU budget for the privilege?

Tony Blair, the most pro-European occupant of Number 10 after Heath, could not convert his country to his convictions even when that loquacious leader was at the peak of his powers. John Major, ambitious to put the UK “at the heart of Europe” at the outset of his premiership, was engulfed by the rising tide of Europhobia on the right. Failures of political advocacy were accompanied by a reckless complacency about membership that reached its apotheosis in Cameron. When I wrote a column castigating his panicky pledge to hold an in/out referendum, one of his under-strappers rang me to sneer: “You surely don’t think the British people will ever really vote to leave?”

Jim Davidson introducing a portrait of Nigel Farage to Nigel Farage. The whole thing looks like a
@Coldwar_Steve masterpiece.

Fallible wrote:James, don’t you have a post to respond to?

jamest wrote:It'll get done when it gets done.

SafeAsMilk wrote:

jamest wrote:It'll get done when it gets done.

Or not, as is usually the case.

GrahamH wrote:

Svartalf wrote:I don't get it, He's a brexiteer full and avowed, he wants to leave the EU, and he wants to keep representation? How much is he willing that the UK should contribute annually to the EU budget for the privilege?

We could read this as a complaint that the EU will still have influence over British fishing in the transition period rather than a desire for the UK to retain influence. She is probably a fan of "a clean Brexit" with no agreements or EU influence in a transition period. But that is probably being far too charitable.

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I see the party line it's indeed that this is a protest against continued EU influence. If that was the case she should have said that. It was a very stupid statement.

jamest wrote:
There was a time and beyond when I posted almost daily.

jamest wrote:There came a time when, as Cito says, I realised that I was never going to get anywhere unless I bent a spoon. It was the dawning of my 'truth mill' age.

jamest wrote:The last few years I have realised the significance of the phrase 'flogging a dead horse', so I have dedicated the remainder of my life to something far more significant than talking to people who just want to hang me.

jamest wrote:The bottom-line is that I don't give a fuck what someone who wants to hang me thinks about my excuses for not posting regularly any more.

jamest wrote:Take it or leave it.

Despite the Conservatives' election success, polls conducted during the campaign suggested - as they had done for the last two years - that there was a small but consistent majority in favour of remaining in the EU.

On average, the last half dozen polls before the election put Remain on 53% and Leave on 47%. According to these polls, most Remain (88%) and Leave voters (86%) would vote the same way as in the 2016 referendum. However, those who did not vote in 2016 back Remain by two to one (53% to 26%).