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by jorwar
Fri May 12, 2017 9:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

I am sure this been covered, but many of our EU neighbours are more anti-Islam than the UK. Just for those who continue to make racist jibes towards the UK. Maybe they are but they are not anti Eastern European like the working class of the UK.The jibe was mainly xenophobia and not racism Many EU o...
by jorwar
Fri May 12, 2017 9:07 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

mikerob wrote:Of course, one way to reduce net immigration would be to completely trash the economy.
The latest Tory long term economic plan. We should be thankful.
by jorwar
Fri May 12, 2017 7:53 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Mother is going to woo the workers today to reassure them that brexit does not mean brexshit, that she alone will deliver prosperity....oh and she will bring down immigration to the tens of thousands, honest. "Theresa May is fond of making promises she knows she won’t keep. She promised there would ...
by jorwar
Wed May 10, 2017 10:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Mother says the vegetables are coming along nicely, laments Rafael Behr in the Grauniad: " Liam Fox travels the world in search of dignitaries to indulge the fantasy that he is a broker of trade deals and not a sleaze-tainted simpleton on a sinecure. Boris Johnson’s cultivated dishevelment shtick is...
by jorwar
Wed May 10, 2017 8:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
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Re: POTUS-DONALD BUBBLEFART-Already making America Great Aga

Draining the swamp?

He promised it.
by jorwar
Mon May 08, 2017 8:03 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

I assume everyone - except Farage and his ilk of course - hopes that a thumping Tory majority means they can set about a nuanced and flexible path. Though they are never happy, they really have been appeased to f**k. Numbers down to the tens of thousands, again? May is just the person to do that. S...
by jorwar
Mon May 08, 2017 7:45 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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UKIP has fixed itself to Mother's skull, like the face-hugging monster in Alien, says Mathew D'Ancona in the Grauniad. (Mind you, the Tory party is a fairly willing host) "...put it another way: having won over Ukip supporters, Tory strategists must not devote all their time – or even very much time...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 10:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Are countries more divided now or has it always been this way and now it's just current and in our face more than ever due to more forms of media and info to digest. I don't remember Thatcher as I was too young to really understand politics, and am not a student of overseas politics. But in the US ...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 10:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Are countries more divided now or has it always been this way and now it's just current and in our face more than ever due to more forms of media and info to digest. I don't remember Thatcher as I was too young to really understand politics, and am not a student of overseas politics. But in the US ...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 10:03 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

We'd need some of the proper economic types to comment on that last bit from Macron above: Bimbo, TSG, Hong Kong etc. Bimbo...rubbish, high Tory arse, as are the rest on that list. Tories are the experts on the economy. Long term plans and all that. They've more than doubled the national debt since...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 10:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

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EU National Anthem for Macron coming out onto Le Louvre to speak to our French brothers. :thumbup: What is the EU National Anthem? What could it be but Ode to Joy? Waterloo? I was more referring to the description of it as a "National" anthem. I guess now we are gone, the pretence isn't necessary a...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 9:53 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

We'd need some of the proper economic types to comment on that last bit from Macron above: Bimbo, TSG, Hong Kong etc. Bimbo...rubbish, high Tory arse, as are the rest on that list. Tories are the experts on the economy. Long term plans and all that. They've more than doubled the national debt since...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 9:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Microns just appeared to the Paris public whistling 'the ode to joy'.

Toujours l'audace, mes amis!

Could be a message for Mother here.
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 9:32 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Absolute nonsense. Le Pen is anti eu, pro brexit and wants brexit to be a success - off course it would be in Britain's best interests if she won. The same went for Geert Wilders. That's along the same lines as saying bubblefart is pro-Brexit. It's more that he's got the shits with the EU - aside f...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 9:22 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Absolute nonsense. Le Pen is anti eu, pro brexit and wants brexit to be a success - off course it would be in Britain's best interests if she won. The same went for Geert Wilders. That's along the same lines as saying bubblefart is pro-Brexit. It's more that he's got the shits with the EU - aside f...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 8:56 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

He is a hard line pro-European. That stuff about reform of the EU was both true but also was only mentioned for the first time last week and it was an attempt to cover his flank against Le Pen. He is already on record is wanting to ensure that it is the hardest possible Brexit for the UK. His elect...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 8:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

That's all very well Sam, but Ireland's GDP is going to take a permanent 3-5% hit because of the UKs decision, through absolutely no fault or action of our own. you really expect us to believe that your feelings towards the UK were warm and friendly before Brexit? :lol: Let me set this out in good ...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 8:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Theresa's just said France is one of our closest allies and she looks forward to working with the new president. :lol: Macron was evidently the best result for us. Le Pen is no friend of Britain's and would have caused chaos on a scale that would make Brexit seem very dull. He's not going to cut us...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 8:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

SamShark wrote:He's already mentioned the PM in his first Tweet since finding out he won:
@MacronEnMarche
I can make it 80m, not 100m Euros for you baby #GILF #HoldMyHandLikeYouHeldTrumps
She's tweeted back, "Are you sure it's Euros?"
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 8:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Theresa's just said France is one of our closest allies and she looks forward to working with the new president. :lol:
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 8:10 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

I want to see if Macron can actually change the French system. He wants to trim the public sector and go more privitised. I like that but his problems start now. He may get nothing through parliament. He would need a prime minister of a like mind. Macron doesn't want to change the system. He is the...
by jorwar
Sun May 07, 2017 7:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Mother, get a grip. We need a deal. Take another walking holiday in Wales and lighten up ffs: "This pessimism is not just the view of Jean-Claude Juncker and Brussels “bureaucrats”, as Theresa May characterises them. It is widespread, particularly in Germany. Last week, one of the most distinguished...
by jorwar
Sat May 06, 2017 8:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Some say Mother's gone full Maggie, but really? "If May were a stateswoman, she would now be preparing her own people for the very painful sacrifices ahead. Instead she prefers to indulge in the fantasy that Britain is still a world power capable of dictating its terms to other countries. Even worse...
by jorwar
Fri May 05, 2017 9:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Did anyone watch This Week afterwards? A Financial Times reporter was talking about negotiating a fair divorce bill, how it would be give and take, but there would be an agreement of an amount both sides could live with. Portillo threw what can only be described as a tantrum, saying "Why has the Fi...
by jorwar
Fri May 05, 2017 9:52 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Did anyone watch This Week afterwards? A Financial Times reporter was talking about negotiating a fair divorce bill, how it would be give and take, but there would be an agreement of an amount both sides could live with. Portillo threw what can only be described as a tantrum, saying "Why has the Fi...
by jorwar
Fri May 05, 2017 9:30 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Not sure about the audience being balanced. Most of them were left leaning and supporters of Corbyn. Not representative of the population. Yeah, one question was why won't the media report a balanced view of Jeremy Corbyn, perhaps because he is a total whackjob love Why did the BBC allow such a lef...
by jorwar
Fri May 05, 2017 9:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

TranceNRG wrote:Not sure about the audience being balanced. Most of them were left leaning and supporters of Corbyn. Not representative of the population.
Even Dimbleby. He was leaning.
by jorwar
Fri May 05, 2017 9:12 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

The BBC are so predictable reporting scary stuff like this: "The chief executive of the world's second largest investment bank has warned that London "will stall" because of the risks from the Brexit process. Lloyd Blankfein said that his firm, Goldman Sachs, which employs 6,500 people in the UK, ha...
by jorwar
Thu May 04, 2017 10:49 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Stephan Richter in the a Grauniad sees Mother as Le Pen in No 10 : "The Brexit vote itself was seen on the continent as a “venting” vote. British working-class voters, too cowed to see the Tories for what they are, were directed to vent their anger against Brussels, to ensure that they didn’t direct...
by jorwar
Thu May 04, 2017 7:39 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

It's Mother trying to be like Maggie Thatcher, the Iron Lady, that is worrying. She's hamming it up for the loons in the Tory heartlands as well as for headlines from the pig ignorant tabloids. She'll have to change, of course. "The PM might get good headlines out of this stand-off with Brussels, pl...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 8:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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The EU is not a free market, the CAP is almost the antithesis of this . It is broadly but that example you've highlighted above is an example where it isn't. The EU is funny like that. Agriculture is protected but services are not. The CAP is terrible policy but agriculture is an odd one everywhere...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 8:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Outside her pad today, Mother says we'd better get a deal with the EU. Hard brexit would be a huge risk for the 'just about managing' and the 'ordinary working people'. (Trying to scare us now, eh?) The PM warned of "serious" consequences if the Brexit talks failed, which would be felt by "ordinary,...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 10:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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New desperate May deals with India will bring in a flood of turbans. Don't you just look forward to that! But one definite way to bring numbers down is to trash the economy. bloody hell jorwar :lol: She wants trade arrangements with the whole planet. The sinister Dr Fox even went to the Plillipines...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 10:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Mother gets bad news from the vineyards: "English winemakers are reporting "catastrophic" crop damage after the worst frost in a generation wiped out at least half of this year's grape harvest. One of those affected is Nick Wenman, the founder and owner of Albury Organic Vineyard in Surrey. "Normal...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 9:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

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Mother gets bad news from the vineyards: "English winemakers are reporting "catastrophic" crop damage after the worst frost in a generation wiped out at least half of this year's grape harvest. One of those affected is Nick Wenman, the founder and owner of Albury Organic Vineyard in Surrey. "Normall...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 9:48 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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Views: 4577039

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:lol: Six years in the home office, Mother did nothing to reduce immigration! Go and look at the changes they've made to non-EU immigration rules. It's much much harder to live and work in the UK if you are not from the EU. That's done feck all to the numbers, they've gone on increasing under May. ...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 9:38 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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He was an excellent prime minister and a strong leader. Something you're lacking now. He played a huge role in causing Brexit to begin with. Had he simply taken the options available to the rest of the EU following enlargement I very much doubt UKIP would have gained the traction they did - natural...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 9:35 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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I doubt that they're desperate, per se. If you owe the money, then you have to pay it. If you say that you don't owe anything, then fine, put forward your arguments and see how it pans out. @Croyals: you say you want the EU to behave rationally and in their bests interests, but there are 27 separat...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 9:32 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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He was an excellent prime minister and a strong leader. Something you're lacking now. He played a huge role in causing Brexit to begin with. Had he simply taken the options available to the rest of the EU following enlargement I very much doubt UKIP would have gained the traction they did - natural...
by jorwar
Wed May 03, 2017 9:29 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
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The Warmonger bullshit needs to stop and needs to stop being used as a means to shut down debate. He was an excellent prime minister and a strong leader. Something you're lacking now. We have a strong leader than you very much. Much to the dismay of EU plums though :lol: Mother! Strong and stable, ...