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Just where was the pledge to stuff up the enironment even further? Poor hedgehogs didn't vote for brexit. Nor did nesting birds. Loss of EU protections could imperil UK hedgehogs, report says New rules do not contain same level of safeguards as under common agricultural policy...

Abbreviations and acronyms are the bane of my life. In another persona, I help a health forum. The use of them is so bad I have (slowly) built up a document of them - to help newcomers. Keep trying to encourage avoidance but it falls on deaf ears. (Mind, when people are feeling desperately ill...

Ban divorce? Or just force people to wait until they have retired?

Which was why I wrote: it could swing either way Let us have a referendum on whether it is fair? Why do you think your opinion on it being fair is any more justified or right than someone else's opinion that it isn't right or fair? Let us imagine NI left before 2045. The argument to defer...

Common sense says that people should have a say in the status of their country. If we wait until 2045, something like one third of the population will not have been able to express their opinion in any official way - other than by their votes in elections. And we can all see that when votes are...

On the other hand, how about a vote every year on such issues? I guess, a sort of official opinion poll. No direct action being taken for just one poll. It could stop feelings building up such a head of steam - allowing the pent up issues to be defused long before 2045.

Me no lyca mobile. :-) Major Tory donor Lycamobile embroiled in three disputes with HMRC Mobile phone firm that donated £2.1m to Conservatives faces bill of over £60m of allegedly unpaid tax...

'Speak only English' posters racially aggravated, say police ‘Happy Brexit Day’ sign at Norwich flats said foreign tongues would not be tolerated The distribution of “Brexit day” posters that warned residents of a block of flats to speak only English is being investigated as a racially...

You might do better with a more slang-oriented source, such as: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MSM Maybe Men who have sex with men; an abbreviation initially used for classification purposes. ? :)

No, of course, no shortages at all. Except these... (And do bear in mind that the government has spent a fortune trying to ensure that there are no shortages which can be blamed on them, directly.) Confidential government documents reveal names of 209 medicine shortages in 2019 The...

Things that are oven-ready get put in an uncomfortably hot place and then eaten.

What piece of paper has he got in his grubby paws (even if he has just washed them, I would still consider them grubby) that agrees a free trade deal with the EU? The EU doesn't say there is one: https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/negotiations-and-agreements/

The original zero hours...

I'll claim turnips and swede are not fruit. :) Tired of digging potatoes, And spudding up docks... Your hands were like Paws then, your face Blue and black ..

Just where can you pick fruit at all in the UK at £700 a week - right now? In February.

Welsh is an official language of Wales. Unless someone has stopped freedom of movement within the UK, (but not told us, yet), that statement is legally wrong without looking outside our shores. That it is also repulsive in numerous other ways is obvious.

Largely because no-one makes price tags big enough...

Who will they never blame? Themselves.

Some excellent comments. Boris Johnson goes missing in action on his big Brexit day On the most significant day in British politics for a generation, the PM hides inside No 10 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/31/boris-johnson-goes-missing-in-action-on-his-big-brexit-day

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus DT that all the world should be taxed. Trump will insist NHS pays more for drugs in trade deal, says ambassador Exclusive: President will put US firms first in UK trade talks, says Kim Darroch...