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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Your link includes this: "On Thursday, the Tories rejected a request from the BBC's lawyers to remove the 15-second video." The BBC should not have requested. They should have demanded. They should be able to report that "the BBC demanded..." Added: In a statement, Facebook said: "We have...
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I didn't get taught, by teachers, about homosexuality. But I certainly wasn't ignorant of it. It was, as many of us remember, something that was discussed, used as an insult and generally known. We were ignorant of the details, the numbers, the "what to do if we believed we as individuals were...
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The depths of winter are, right this moment, beautiful sunshine and feeling warm. The rest was fine.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ironically, the medicine I currently most care about was never patented - neither in the UK nor in the USA. Yet the price is already ludicrous.
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The suggestion appears to be that it will appear as an amendment from an anti-brexit source.
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Sorry to go off-topic ( :) ), but... Which party’s general election pledges are best for cyclists? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2019/dec/01/which-partys-general-election-pledges-are-best-for-cyclists
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Observer front page: Johnson ‘will have to call second referendum if he fails to win majority’ With Opinium poll showing his lead narrowing, academics warn PM could need support of minority parties for Brexit deal Boris Johnson could be forced into holding a second referendum on Brexit next...
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    With luck, the knowledge of bad voting intentions could cause Raab to make (more) mistakes.
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Read it earlier - definitely a serious article but I am not 100% convinced. There again, JF is a bright chap with a good record of writing.
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What arrogance and pomposity. Boris Johnson’s father, Stanley, has been criticised for appearing to suggest the British public is illiterate. In an appearance on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show, the 79-year-old was told that one viewer had called his son “Pinocchio”. Johnson replied...
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And little bits like the quote below erode the apparent confidence that, despite being a brazen liar, he will be all right on the night: Millions of patients will be stopped from having an X-ray on their sore back, hernia repair surgery or scan of their knee to detect arthritis under...
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... dancing in the street.
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Lied on the bench in the HoC. (They still haven't let him out in public.)
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Adam Price on TV debate to Richard Tice - referring to what he would say to Donald Trump: "Resign and take Boris with you." - Clarified who Adam was talking about.
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What a callous and supremely lazy **** he is. "More than 50" - ignore the deaths of 46 real people just because he couldn't be arsed to spend seconds checking the actual number. Let alone the other lies. Myth 2: 'Drunken fans caused the disaster'...
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The nasty, lying, toerag party: BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters Clip 'could damage perceptions of our impartiality', says Auntie By John Oates...
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That Boris, he might not always tell the truth, he might have had affairs, but, you know, he's always fun to be with. Makes me laugh. Boris Johnson made only “placebo promises” to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and is responsible for putting more British Iranian dual nationals in the jails of...
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I am doing my best not to spend a single penny today. For a number of reasons. Not least, the assumption (until proved wrong) that all BF deals are in their interests and not ours. But also, in my own very little way, a message that I shall not fall into their trap. Undone by the millions who do.
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Confirming what oldgroaner has said (many times :) ) : Eleven wealthy American donors who have given a total of more than $3.7m (£2.86m) to rightwing UK groups in the past five years have been identified, raising questions about the influence of foreign funding on British politics. The...
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Given our current apology for a PM appears to think he is even better than Winston, perhaps he should adopt WC's words to marginally more accurately describe leaving the EU in January 2020? This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the...