Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
some ones having a larf arnt they,a stick but no carrot this time.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Ah, so not a customs union with the EU then!
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,937
I saw these Parliamentarians in a field in the lanes yesterday:
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
It occurs to me that one can substitute 'crown minister' for 'staff officer' in "They were only playing leapfrog".
By the way, the notion that when we say "leapfrog", they say "how high?" doesn't appear to be bourne out in practice.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Panic among some senior MPs but by the time of the next General Election I think it will be a vote winner for Labour.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/aug/27/labour-jeremy-corbyn-brexit-policy-changeBrian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
if there is a brexit,cant see it happening though.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Our top team are on the case Brian.
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
So which of these excellent Brits is your Dad Howard?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Can't get me on that one Paul he wasn't British.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Show stopper then Howard.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Mr Captain sir, I think the exotic cheroots are at it again - the latest wheeze is to bring back Duty Free status for UK-EU journeys (the default scenario in any case). Could you have a word please as my hall wall can't stand many more dents?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,072
Button wrote:Mr Captain sir, I think the exotic cheroots are at it again - the latest wheeze is to bring back Duty Free status for UK-EU journeys (the default scenario in any case). Could you have a word please as my hall wall can't stand many more dents?
You wanted to spend the £350 Brexit bonus on the NHS.
I wanted to spend it on fun things like Trident submarines.
Charlie wants it blown offsetting reduced revenue on tax on drink and fags which are both causing long term health problems and deaths!
Brilliant.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#843 Peculiar how the Trident Nuclear Weapons seems to be seen as a huge deterrent in the UK's foreign policy propaganda yet North Korea having a nuclear weapon is seen as a major statement of war.
(£350 might pay for the bus to be resprayed. £350 million per week would save
OUR NHS.
)
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,072
The largest individual donor in the section on "gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources" was the Road Haulage Association, which the register revealed funds a researcher in the office of Dover's Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke at a cost of £22,577.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41027964 "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Pity they didn't fork out for quality assurance too then!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,072
Labour colleagues are trying to “delay the inevitable” and “wreck for wrecking’s sake”
https://order-order.com/2017/09/03/flint-labour-colleagues-trying-disrupt-brexit/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The turn of Labour to shoot themselves in the foot. Whatever happened to cabinet and shadow cabinet collective responsibility where despite disagreements all members sang from the same hymn sheet in public?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/03/sir-keir-starmer-threatens-block-theresa-mays-brexit-bill-unless/Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Perhaps they've listened to this forum and sought to go with that which they individually believe is best, rather than following party doctrine willy-nilly. Alternatively, it could be Mr Starker distancing himself/his party from the apparently ill-informed utterings of Mr Watson.
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