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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If it were so easy to do so, isn't it surprising it hasn't yet reached some far greater number by now? If it were so easy to do so, isn't it surprising that some of the other well-publicised petitions failed to get anything like the support many expected them to?
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You could have used Urban Dictionary. :D
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes - that was why I asked.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Obviously, merkin time.
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    When are Scotland and NI declaring?
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    How can you make an excuse that your own candidate, selected by your own selection procedures, caused your reputation to be marred? If you don't want to get tarred make sure you keep good a distance from the brush. Fanning said she felt the party would be lucky to get three seats in total. “I...
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ah - right. Sorry, not paying enough attention.
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The machine I just read about is at one every 3.456 seconds. (25,000 a day.)
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Lots of people use heroin and cocaine...
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And you support Boris?
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Source?
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    To pick up on anti-immigration sentiments, remember, Boris Johnson wasn't even born in the country. (Which would disqualify him if we applied USA constitutional rules regarding presidency to PM-hood.) :)
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well, well, well. There's a surprise. Conservative membership swells by 36,000 ahead of leadership election Tens of thousands of new members have joined the Conservatives in the last year, swelling the electorate that will choose Theresa May's successor. The Tories now have more than 160,000...
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Starbucks make themselves quite easy to avoid despite their ubiquity. They serve disgusting drinks - their coffee so unpleasant I tried their tea. That was, if possible, even worse. My complaint drew vouchers for "free" drinks which we could never bring ourselves to use.
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Brian Blessed for PM/leader of the tories? Theresa May failed to get the EU to break its rules because she didn’t SHOUT LOUDLY AT FOREIGNERS. If only we bellow hard enough, the EU will fold, and we can live in the pro-having-your-cake-and-pro-eating-it world of Boris Johnson, a layabout fraud...
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Even the Mail has caught up, albeit years down the track: “PM race turning toxic already.”
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    A few words from Christchurch - apparently the safest tory seat in the country. “The people around her [TM] proved to be slime buckets,” said Glenda Sprake, a Tory of many years’ standing. “There’s no way I would vote for any of them again.” As for her local MP, Sir Christopher Chope, the...
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    How about starting with a no-confidence in Johnson motion right now? Labour will try to force a vote of no confidence in the next prime minister as soon as they take office, John McDonnell said, as Conservative candidates throw their hats into the ring to succeed Theresa May. Yes - I know...
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Water cannon? Even TM... The London mayor has written to the home secretary outlining plans to equip the Met Police with water cannon. Boris Johnson wrote to Theresa May to say that he will consult the public on their views on use of the devices in "extreme circumstances". A final decision by...
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There was considerably more presumption of innocence in both the Guardian story and my post than you display in your response.