Search results

  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    From that article: One of those NSDAP members who turned his back on the Reichstag in 1930, a certain Joseph Goebbels, once justified his party’s reasons for standing in elections – in what they saw as a ‘fake democracy’ – in terms not unfamiliar today. “We enter to arm ourselves with...
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not sure that impugn is the right word. Impugn implies some sort of attack whereas this appears simply to be reporting back to London these truths he holds to be self-evident. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Bear in mind DT's ongoing issues with Deutschebank. What is his real agenda?
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The Brits withdrew from Lexington when Captain Parker threatened them with being nuked into the middle ages.
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just curiosity - thinking they could be accused of discrimination if they do not allow them despite Grayling having to eat humble pie on the issue with respect to HoC elections.
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Do the tory party rules allow members who are currently imprisoned to vote in their leadership elections?
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well, I was born in Yorkshire, but I speak English. ;)
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No, indeed, most of the ones round here are Welsh. And when I was working in Glasgow, most of them were Scottish.
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Whereas the homeless can find it impossible to vote at all.
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes - I do. Yes - it is not always trivial. But in this case, it isn't that they need to reconcile a whole database. A statistically-based sampling process would likely have highlighted some cases to look at further. And when they did, the issue should have been obvious. I'll also point out...
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I agree it is an easy mistake to make. That is why it is so bad that they made it! So easy and so obvious that it should have been guarded against. For example, sort extracted list into alphabetical order (by name, by address, by postcode) and manually check those names/addresses (or reasonably...
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    But sending voting cards/forms to lapsed members is itself a major screw-up.
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That will go down really well in "the land of my fathers". (Or, at least, some of it.)
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I see Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has been found guilty of another offence: Tommy Robinson faces jail after being found in contempt of court Former EDL leader ‘seriously interfered’ with process of justice by filming defendants...
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That BJ appears to be following LC is indictment enough of his judgement. Lynton Crosby lobby firm works with high-sugar drinks brand Link to product in Australia comes as business partner runs Boris Johnson campaign The firm run by Lynton Crosby, whose business partner is helping Boris...
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Is that the answer? BJ leaves with no deal, the rest of us revoke A50.
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What tartan do they wear?
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No - I do not remember that photograph but something was niggling away at me about the back turning and previous uses of it as a sign. That photo is absolutely to be posted as a warning from history. Funny how people with the same attitude (DT, et al.) seem to have criticised the "taking a...
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Given some specific deficits of brexit (in my case, I am acutely conscious of non-recognition of UK prescriptions by the EU), I don't see anything even recognising that there is an issue, let along making it better.
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yet more things falling out from brexit. Known but unhandled: Brexit could jeopardise £5bn 'lifeline' of EU cash, councils warn Funds for regional projects dry up at the end of 2020 but Treasury yet to offer alternative Brexit is putting at risk a £5bn “lifeline” of EU regional cash for...