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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Balance between what I get from the forum and what the forum gets from me/my information. :) About as balanced as a Russian election in other ways.
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ditto. Never joined any of them and do my best to explain to people that using facebook as their main site, especially for businesses, is crazy. There are a few sites, like here and a health-related site, which I see the quid pro quo of things and accept the balance. And I have also been quite...
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Unfortunately, he has inflicted himself on Wales: He has served as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Mid and West Wales region since 2016; he was previously Conservative MP for the Tatton constituency from 1983 to 1997.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    One Pedal to rule them all, One Pedal to find them, One Pedal to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There's always a bit of good news... Charities drop Christine Hamilton after post likening burqa to KKK costume Tweet by wife of former Tory MP Neil Hamilton comes during escalating row over Boris Johnson’s burqa remarks Christine Hamilton has been sacked as a charity ambassador after...
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    This particular one should do what he said and lie down in front of the bulldozers at Heathrow. Whilst I do not condone violence, the failure of one to stop would be a fitting end.
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Although I kept the words short, I meant, there are women who believe it is entirely right and proper for them to profit by using their sexuality to drape over motor vehicles. That there is nothing wrong in using sex to sell cars. Some companies have been extremely balanced...
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Steve Bannon praises Boris Johnson and Tommy Robinson Former Trump adviser says MP has ‘nothing to apologise for’ after burqa remarks Dan Sabbagh Sun 12 Aug 2018 12.53 BST First published on Sun 12 Aug 2018 12.25 BST Donald Trump’s outspoken former adviser Steve Bannon has...
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If it is unachievable, it isn't a brexit. It isn't anything except pie in the sky.
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hmmm... New Daily Mail editor: we want the least damaging Brexit Under Geordie Greig the pro-leave paper is likely to try to focus on healing rifts Anyone else think the least damaging brexit is no brexit?
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'd very much hope for a very clear remain decision with a high turnout. Rather agree, though, that the (hopefully, former) brexit voters are likely not to turn out in anything like the numbers of two years ago.
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I always come back to the elephant man - Joseph Merrick. It could be challenging making a suitable exclusion clause to allow someone so afflicted to do as they wish whilst implementing any sort of widespread head-covering ban.
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    But even Johnson isn't overtly promoting a ban for security reasons!
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I suspect nowhere near strong enough.
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There have. There have also been counter-claims that such a ban removes the women's right to advertise cars...
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If everyone really did ignore him, that would be great. Even so, some people with very small audiences keep plugging away at something and eventually it gets out and appears again. Perhaps the far-off place I'd like him to disappear to could not have an internet connection?
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You missed the bit about “bank robbers”. Are we expected to believe he has read the Koran in full - or just did a quick search? "I can find no scriptural authority for the practice in the Koran" He wrote it that way with deliberate ambiguity so that people could read it as a claim of...
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Even, with a local-for-me twist: ‘They don’t know what they’re doing’: Leave-voting Swansea turns on Brexit I'll just add that my constituency has swung to remain.
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    More than 100 seats that backed Brexit now want to stay in EU Major new analysis shows most constituencies now have majority who want to Remain Michael Savage Observer policy editor Sat 11 Aug 2018 21.00 BST Last modified on Sat 11 Aug 2018 22.21 BST More than 100 Westminster...
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I find the contrast between the ultra-smart WWII era nazis and the long-haired lout look we see so often in USA versions needs some sort of comment. I just don’t quite know what to make of it.