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You wouldn’t know if you only received your news from the London media but there are three general elections in the UK this year.
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Or a very big piece of stone.... https://t.co/d4y5Ji78A3
I am not sure what the point is of voting for a non aligned party in westminster elections where it can never influence government and where an English electorate would be unlikely to vote for a party who offered to let it.
YouGov has recorded four consecutive leads for Remain since the last published poll, suggesting a movement towards the Remain side in the first two weeks of campaigning
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/03/05/remain-retakes-lead-eu-referendum/
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107332
Remember Suez, an Anglo French partnership that was so memorable to a Tory PM, granted that PM was MacMillan and not Eden
"Can Donald Trump ever claim to be '100% clean'?"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-35732423
TSE: The REMAINERS use their power for good.
Sunil: Good is a point of view, Anakin, er, I mean TSE. The LEAVERS and the REMAINERS are similar in almost every way, including their quest for greater power.
TSE: The LEAVERS rely on their passion for their strength. They think inward, only about themselves.
Sunil: And the REMAINERS don't?
TSE: The REMAINERS are selfless... they only care about others.
Sunil: [looking a little frustrated] Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Smithson "the Wise"?
TSE: No.
Sunil: I thought not. It's not a story the LibDems would tell you. It's a political blogging legend. Darth Smithson was a Dark Lord of the Sith who lived many elections ago. He was so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create... AV threads. He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying from boredom on Thursday Nights.
TSE: He could do that? He could actually save people from boring themselves to death?
Sunil: The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many policy platforms some consider to be unelectable.
TSE: What happened to him?
Sunil: He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, and then one night, his apprentice wiped his servers' hard drives while he slept. It's ironic that he could save others from obscurity, but not himself.
TSE: Is it possible to learn this power?
Sunil: Not from a LibDem...
We have much for which to thank Antony Eden.
Odd our PM didn't bring that up.
A new low for Cameron.
I generally give Cameron the benefit of the doubt but having a foreign leader threaten his own people looks like something you'd expect from a banana republic dictator.
Also announced at the meeting was that we the UK would be helping airlift support for French troops in peacekeeping operations in africa. The French also announced interest in buying the UK Brimstone missile. As well as the more widely announced co-operation to build an advanced pilotless plane.
The meeting marked the beginning of Somme commemorations. No doubt sneering snobbish commentators egged on by a clearly ignorant public will want to underplay the French role in this but it was nonetheless significant.
I'm just offended on so many levels.
On balance, I think Project Fear will work, but the danger for Remain is that they will come over as being unpatriotic if they emphasise how powerless we are when foreigners want to do nasty things to us.
If she had resisted the temptation to have a go at the French and just stuck to the former point she would have had a stronger article. But she didn't and, having opened the door, it would have been impolite for me not to stroll thru it and doff my hat.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/formula-1/articles/all/circuit-guide-2016
Its worth remembering the impact of the Franco Prussian war when considering the French psychology.
Also 1871 (as mentioned upthread)
Believe in BRITAIN!
Be LEAVE!
It's the Sunil wot won it
(Tiptoes out of the room, tick, tick, tick...)
But it would have been had we not sacrificed countless lives to prevent that.
Not that they are remotely grateful - for that or being liberated in 1944/5. Indeed, I think they resent it.
http://tinyurl.com/hgkefha
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12184405/Jeremy-Corbyn-accused-of-rewriting-history-after-deleting-hundreds-of-outspoken-articles-and-speeches-from-his-website.html
'Note that this isn’t the start of daily EU referendum polling. We put the EU question on lots of polls in a row because it was the control question for an academic experiment. There will NOT be YouGov daily referendum polls for the next four months!'
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/
I particularly enjoyed the nonsense about the allegedly 'true' immigration figures, which the nutjobs think he is deliberately concealing because of the referendum. No-one seems to ask what conceivable relevance illegal immigration has to the question of whether the UK should stay in the EU or not.
No doubt experiences vary, but I worked for a French firm for five years and got a very different impression. The contrast with the attitudes I've experienced in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and (perhaps surprisingly) eastern Europe was a strong one.
But my comment was in any case more about 'official' opinion than the opinions of ordinary folk.
The fact that you can see no wrong in Cameron says far more about you than his performance.
How was the general reception on the door step and if not secret, where were you leafleting?
Cameron pledged to reduce immigration to tens of thousand, now the figures aren't released.
Your stance is becoming more ludicrous by the day.
you (I think) had some good state sites before (apols if someone else)
Fruitcakes and loons hardly covers it.
http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/february2016
Cameron did not pledge to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands, it was an objective which still applies (forever?)
I've spent the last few hours watching the first 6 episodes of House of Cards.
Think it is very good so far.