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It's genuine, the Catholic Herald has always lived in the past. The irony is that the 19th century past he speaks of so lovingly was when Catholics were still very strongly discriminated against. .

I never take much notice of by elections. They give the public a chance to express their thoughts without real damage to the politics and party they really believe in. Come general election time those thoughts disappear and they revert to type. That's why we stay stuck in a mess. .

I've always been strongly in favour of us joining the eurozone and parity of the pound with the euro at joining won't necessarily be bad. In fact I think it would be good. That's because the euro would leap in value if the strength of the pound was added to it. And that might not be the only...

It isn't really independent of England anyway, since there's a view that it remains a principality of England. When kings made law, Henry the Eighth ruled that Wales was a part of England and it wasn't legally declared a separate country until 1967. At that time the post of Prince of Wales...

Or it could be static electricity generated by the bulky space suit moving around the astronaut's internal clothing generating friction. The flag is no doubt of minimal weight, acted on by far less gravity on the moon to hold it down. .

Depends. If Abbyo's selling proper ice cream as it seems, rather than the insipid milk and gelatine mix that most ice cream vans sell these days, it's well worth a visit. All the best for the impending heart operation. Is it bypass or new valve? .

Nonsense. Trade will continue under WTO rules, but the UK will lose the 50% that's our services we supply the EU countries with. We are the net loser. And for the umpteenth time I remind you that the EU loses no trade since it isn't a country. Any loss for mainland Europe is split 27 ways...

Of course he is, I've been posting all along that he's bluffing in hope of winning. But that doesn't alter my contempt for him as a person. I think the EU will prove far tougher than he thinks. They have 27 backbones. .

OG was the only one at the start of this thread to correctly predict that the referendum would be won by Leave. And since then he's consistently said he hopes we do leave to teach the leave voters a lesson with the consequences. That's partly what he's doing in the post you answered, not...

Perhaps not, but he could be on a roll with toilet paper. .

After Honda departing and Nissan cancelling a model for Sunderland, we now have PSA saying the Vauxhall Astra plant at Ellesmere Port is likely to close with a no deal brexit. I first forecast this on 26th October 2016 on this link when the brand was still owned by GM, and have reposted since...

They've been happy all the time there was a chance that there would be no Brexit. Hope is a great inspirer. .

The EU aren't worried, as I've posted a number of times before, they hold all the cards and always have done. They know we have to have a trade deal of some sort with them since we couldn't survive losing half of all our export income. So to get that trade deal we'll have to cough up the cash...

Maybe this sort of tandem (still from video):

Me too for your 1 to 7 list. It could be a tandem with John McDonnell or Diane Abbott on the back. :D .

Some people. Over 48% are happy, that's many more than most governments ever please! :) .

Since when do we believe governments? That was code for "If you vote the way we expect you to and the way that we want, we will implement your decision". That's why more than three years down the line we still haven't left. We didn't vote the way they wanted. .

But that was their mistake, or more accurately David Cameron's mistake when he promised one, since referenda are not democratic. Our parliamentary system is democratic because we all broadly speaking win. That is because we elect both a government and all of the oppositions and thus we are all...

Indeed, I've made that perfectly clear from before the referendum and when no outcome was known. Ours is a parliamentary democracy and such vital decisions requiring extensive knowledge of all the facts are rightly only parliament's. I was opposed to the 1975 referendum and just as opposed to...

There is an alternative, the benevolent dictatorship, but since that is impossible to guarantee it's not an option. Democracy with all its many faults is realistically the only option. I don't know why you believe I think otherwise, perhaps you can explain? This is what your posted...