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  1. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Like your views on the EU, you are just taking a wild guess based on no evidence......unless you have some you might wish to share with the rest of us? Tom
  2. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What causes you to imagine that any remainer is at all worried about those two individuals? Why don't you 'get' it? Do you think such a progressive idea is a bad thing? Have you ever heard the expression, 'Rome wasn't built in a day'? Are you making things up as you go along just for...
  3. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Perhaps 'Fingers' will provide us with some tangible, recognisable benefits the UK is likely to gain by exiting the EU. That would be a real novelty in this forum! Being old enough to remember well the times before the EU, or the Common Market to begin with, the UK was in a mess and our...
  4. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Who exactly do you mean when you refer to 'unelected'? The House of Lords perhaps? Next to the gerrymandered political system we have in the UK, that of the EU is far more efficient and fairer. Tom
  5. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I disagree with your premise about the EU dying and I think you may have forgotten that 'The mother of parliaments' is more than a little older than the EU parliament. That apart, as for your hopes, you must be a committed betting man if you imagine that the UK's political class might somehow...
  6. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Nestlé is a global company and has about 20 plants around the UK and Ireland, employing something of the order of 7,000 staff. Apparently, they are one of the food industry's major exporters, delivering in excess of £266 million of products to 32 countries, according to their own blurb. Now, I...
  7. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That really is a shocking story and as Toynbee has remarked, it isn't unique. Being outside of a pan-European regulatory body after 'Brexit' will only exacerbate the situation as greedy capitalists will seek to expand their personal wealth by further abuses of employment legislation, worker's...
  8. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Apart from a bunch of super-rich individuals in the UK, who else actually wants the UK to secede from the EU? I read this and I think it sums up pretty well the kind of people who want to bully everyone else into 'Brexit': 'It’s all about them, isn’t it? The hardline Leavers, just like a...
  9. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    In post #34994, I mentioned the major countries with which the British government has repeatedly declared are our friends. One of those, Saudi Arabia has been accused of committing war crimes by the 'Human Rights Watch' organisation. Most recently, they identified an attack on a school bus...
  10. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Here are two old pieces of film footage with a quarter of a century separating them. They depict the bully boys under the spell of fascist rabblerousers, the same kind of evil monsters who have given the deadbeats of British society a cause once again with their racist-littered speeches over...
  11. oldtom

    Woman fighting for life after 'e-bike' hit-and-run in east London

    That's a moot point Leigh! I have toured round lots of different areas of London in the company of other ancients, guided and informed by very professional guides so my history and geography of the capital is considerably better than it was when I was employed and found driving through the...
  12. oldtom

    Woman fighting for life after 'e-bike' hit-and-run in east London

    My nearest dictionary has this: idiot | ˈɪdɪət | noun informal a stupid person. • archaic a person of low intelligence. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a person of low intelligence): via Old French from Latin idiota ‘ignorant person’, from Greek idiōtēs ‘private person, layman, ignorant...
  13. oldtom

    WANTED Panasonic Powered Step-Through Bike (Kalkhoff Raleigh etc)

    I have one of 2007/8 vintage hanging up in a tall garage on a pulley. At 27 kgs, it's pretty useless on anything even resembling a hill but a lovely comfortable ride on the flat. It's only 26v so hardly a bundle of fire. It's not for sale though.:rolleyes: Information only! Tom
  14. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That's why I refer to the pillocks who think Nigel Farage is intelligent and has the interests of the man in the street at heart, 'Brexidiots'. This whole 'Brexit' fiasco is every bit as racist as the Nazi 'final solution' and equally, the Israeli crimes against humanity being perpetrated...
  15. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Saw this elsewhere but as yet, I haven't heard or read any convincing answers: Tom
  16. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    In the interest of democracy, given the change of economic circumstances and the enormity of the undertaking involved in leaving the EU, plus the likelihood of foreign businesses with bases in the UK leaving the country with all the ramifications therein, I believe you are right. It is easy to...
  17. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Cor blimey 'flecc'! That means you have missed some of my finest work.:(.......:D Tom
  18. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    For the benefit of those too young to know the identity of the horrid, nasty extremist in the attached photo, it's the late Margaret Thatcher. The other one is Menachem Begin, the Israeli PM who blew up 28 British citizens at the King David hotel in Jerusalem in 1946. The following year, he...
  19. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The 'Brexidiots' seem to imagine that closer ties with that other place across the Atlantic that claims we enjoy a 'special relationship' would be of great benefit to the UK in terms of trade, military and strategic interests and global, tax-avoiding, fast food chains, internet providers, coffee...
  20. oldtom

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I didn't do nuffink guv; on me baby's life!o_O Tom