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    Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
    In the ongoing passport watch, the overall number for the first six weeks of 2019 is 93,000 applications, up from 73,000 last year, so the trend of 20% increases continues.
    I really need to finish off my application for the register.

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      Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
      A friendly warning...

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        It's got love hearts and everything.

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          We're going to need a longer road:

          http://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1103390796949188612

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            http://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1103416110416883718

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              http://twitter.com/SiCarswell/status/1103750457128902656

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                Eyebrows Arlene, Sammy and Dodds, they had the chance to have NI become the richest part of the U.K., skyscrapers around the "Titanic Quarter" as they soaked up Britain's foreign investment in a differentiated Brexit, inside the SM and CU while racist island sank under May's evil mind. A really real economy outside mawkish tourism for a shit ship and fuckin Game of Thrones weirdos. But their instransigence meant the U.K. govt asking for the backstop that is now unacceptable. A border in the Irish Sea would be the best thing that ever happened to the stupid fucks the silly sash bastards.

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                  Hunt laying groundwork for an "EU stabbed us in the back" narrative, with the rather comical line that not watering down the backstop that his own government agreed to would "inject poison into our relations for many years to come". As opposed to, you know, walking away from the EU and threatening not to pay what you owe.

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                    It's all so transparent but there is still a huge number of people who absolutely want to believe the EU is conspiring to crush the UK. I wonder what amount of shit they are willing to deal with before they turn...

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                      Still. Funny how the clamour for a Peoples Vote suddenly died down now that Labour support it.

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                        "If you don't give us what we want, we'll hate you forever". I reckon a group of 5 year olds would be insulted at the comparison, but our politicians really are a bunch of children.

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                          Originally posted by Snake Plissken View Post
                          Still. Funny how the clamour for a Peoples Vote suddenly died down now that Labour support it.
                          Has the clamour for a referendum itself changed? Wasn't it a clamour for all right thinking people to try and find a mechanism to end this madness? And until Labour's position changed, the most obvious and visible part of the right-thinking-constituency - the official opposition - appeared to be doing nothing to end it. Now that it's Labour policy, there's no reason for a clamour to make it Labour policy.

                          Personally, I think a second referendum is pretty silly. But at least having it as party policy means that they're doing something.

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                            Meanwhile, Geoffrey Cox has come up with a particularly bonkers wheeze: The backstop risked breaching protocol 1, article 3 of the convention, which protects the rights of people to vote in order to choose their legislature.

                            In what appeared to be a curve ball, Cox told the EU that Northern Irish citizens would be unrepresented in the EU’s decision-making institutions, including the European parliament, thereby diminishing their rights.

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                              Does Cox realize NI won't be in the EU? If they don't want the backstop they have representatives in the UK Parliament to help stop it.

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                                They've scraped the barrel so hard all that's left to scrape now is the festering slurry the barrel was resting on. Or, to use a sporting analogy, it's Hail Mary time but sadly Aaron Rodgers never made it onto the depth chart.

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                                  I do like those threats of "no Brexit at all by May"...Has she finally realised that the only way her WA is going to work, is to essentially threaten to revoke Art 50....?

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                                    Love the clip of Will Self and Mark Francois. I mean it's meaningless and doesn;t make any difference, but it's still quite funny
                                    https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1104045613837094912

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                                      Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post

                                      Has the clamour for a referendum itself changed? Wasn't it a clamour for all right thinking people to try and find a mechanism to end this madness? And until Labour's position changed, the most obvious and visible part of the right-thinking-constituency - the official opposition - appeared to be doing nothing to end it. Now that it's Labour policy, there's no reason for a clamour to make it Labour policy.

                                      Personally, I think a second referendum is pretty silly. But at least having it as party policy means that they're doing something.
                                      The key word there "appeared". Labour had backed a second referendum at the Conference last autumn - committing to it after all other options had been explored. Well, all other options got explored, so they threw their weight behind a second referendum, which apparently would see them romping ahead in the polls..

                                      The clamour for a second referendum has definitely disappeared. It's all about the extensions to A50 now.

                                      And now, as if by magic, the ol' anti-semitism reappears. It's almost as if people are trying to keep the Party firefighting.

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                                        Haven't seen Tubbs in here for a while - is he okay?

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                                          Originally posted by HeavyDracula View Post
                                          Haven't seen Tubbs in here for a while - is he okay?
                                          Yes Tubbs if you’re lurking let us know you’re ok

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                                            Originally posted by Snake Plissken View Post

                                            The key word there "appeared". Labour had backed a second referendum at the Conference last autumn - committing to it after all other options had been explored. Well, all other options got explored, so they threw their weight behind a second referendum, which apparently would see them romping ahead in the polls..

                                            The clamour for a second referendum has definitely disappeared. It's all about the extensions to A50 now.

                                            And now, as if by magic, the ol' anti-semitism reappears. It's almost as if people are trying to keep the Party firefighting.
                                            I'd suggest the clamour has disappeared purely because of the sands of time running out - if you do end up with a 12-month extension, it becomes a practical proposition again.

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                                              Except the sands of time ran out four months ago (and realistically nine months ago). Didn’t seem to stop them.

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                                                Turns out that after two years of the People’s Vote organisation demanding Labour try to get a second referendum they now want Labour to withdraw the bid to try and get a second referendum.

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                                                  Will Self is gradually morphing into Dot Cotton.

                                                  My pro-Brexit relatives believe the UK will be stronger economically outside the EU. No facts can penetrate this lunacy.

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                                                    Things that can happen when your only aims for Brexit were to appeal to the far right of the Conservative Party


                                                    [URL]https://twitter.com/nikeshshukla/status/1104644837603721216?s=21[/URL]

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