No side that expected to win comfortably would have had supporters discussing ways in which Parliament could ignore the result.
(1) Talk of ignoring the result (2) Total saturation of Canary Wharf yesterday with adverts to vote Remain (3) Cameron pushing a Little England, Greater Britain line (4) Last minute press conference by PM (5) Pushing out voter registration deadline
So if Remain win by 10-20 points, which nefarious skulduggery will have done it?
I'm not falling prey to hubris but I don't think that's where we're heading.
If you doubt my sincerity, check my entry into the pb.com competition where I predicted 58/42 to Remain.
Both TSE and the originator of Vapid Bilge had Remain at over 60%
Point of order, my prediction was Remain by around 12-15%, which is Remain on tops 57.5%
That's your prediction now, it wasn't then.
It was my hope and aspiration, I wasn't expecting the Farage lite duplicitous foghorn Boris and Gove are playing on Turkey.
I thought they were better than that.
Ah, there we have it.
You might remember my other prediction from February. If Leave were spending the last few weeks of the referendum talking exclusively about immigration/Muslims then it was purely a core vote strategy by Leave in anticipation of a shellacking.
The quietness of Remainers has more to do with the fact that quite a few of them have evidently decided that they have better things to do with their time than hang around somewhere where they routinely get called quislings and traitors by swivel-eyed Leavers.
I'm loving it. It fortifies my soul when I go out campaigning. Which I'm going to do tonight, again.
The interesting thing is how few PB leavers seem to be out campaigning for Leave.
So let me get this right.
First there was the 9m pound brochure Most of the world's great and the good telling us the world would end World War 3 "could" happen we are told Economic Armageddon "could" happen we are told Refugee camps in Kent "could" happen we are told Leave have all the unsavory types like Farage Remain have all the saints like the ABoC and Obama Three months of campaigning with the full force of the civil service AND the Leavers can't be bothered to go out and canvass apparently.
That must explain why Remain is 20% ahead in the polls.
Christ, you must come to the UK, living in The Philippines really is distorting your perception of reality.
If I come back and find Britain is not the PB Tory utopia I imagined I will be very disappointed.
It won't be PB Tory utopia until George Osborne becomes PM.
No side that expected to win comfortably would have had supporters discussing ways in which Parliament could ignore the result.
(1) Talk of ignoring the result (2) Total saturation of Canary Wharf yesterday with adverts to vote Remain (3) Cameron pushing a Little England, Greater Britain line (4) Last minute press conference by PM (5) Pushing out voter registration deadline
So if Remain win by 10-20 points, which nefarious skulduggery will have done it?
I'm not falling prey to hubris but I don't think that's where we're heading.
If you doubt my sincerity, check my entry into the pb.com competition where I predicted 58/42 to Remain.
Both TSE and the originator of Vapid Bilge had Remain at over 60%
Point of order, my prediction was Remain by around 12-15%, which is Remain on tops 57.5%
That's your prediction now, it wasn't then.
It was my hope and aspiration, I wasn't expecting the Farage lite duplicitous foghorn Boris and Gove are playing on Turkey.
I thought they were better than that.
Ah, there we have it.
You might remember my other prediction from February. If Leave were spending the last few weeks of the referendum talking exclusively about immigration/Muslims then it was purely a core vote strategy by Leave in anticipation of a shellacking.
We have a lot of other evidence that seems to suggest otherwise.
And Gove on Friday night talked about the positive case for Leave, "Project Hope", so.. no.
Gibraltar also has a different constitutional relationship with the UK, than Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Gibraltar is an Overseas Territory (along with your Falklands, Diego Garcia, Bermuda et al.)
Man, Guernsey and Jersey are Crown Dependencies.
Do people in the IoM and Channel Isles get a vote in the referendum then?
Channel Islands no - because they are not in the EU (apart from the Customs Union) and are not part of the UK.
If it was an organisation chart, the Channel Islands would report directly to the Queen....
Emerges boldly from pedant's corner.
The Queen? You mean the Duke of Normandy surely in their case? (Oddly she is the Duke I think and not the Duchess - go figure).
That is a popularly held, but possibly mistaken, view:
The title of duke of Normandy was renounced by Henry III in 1259, and removed from his seal and official styles in 1260. It was never again used in the official styles of his successors, except in a few homages by Norman vassals to Edward III in 1356, and by Henry V, occasionally, in documents concerning occupied Normandy between 1417 and 1419. Furthermore, in both instances the use of the title was indistinguishable from the English king's claim to the throne of France, and hence was unrelated to the title held until 1259. In over 750 years, it was used once by an English sovereign to describe himself in his relation to the Channel islands.
There is no trace of its use for the past 390 years.
Loyal subjects in the Islands, just as those in Lancashire, may well toast their Queen as "Duke". But that does not make her one, any more than the people of Vanuatu who worship the duke of Edinburgh as a god make him one.
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We can conclude from the last minute extension of the voting registration deadline, as well as other moves this week from Remain and the PM, that the Remain camp are concerned this vote is going to be extremely close.
Bet accordingly.
All the signs tell me that REMAIN now believe they are going to lose.
My gut tells me they might.
What if those worried about economic fallout but also very concerned by ongoing high migration just can't bring themselves to turnout and actively cast that vote for Remain to endorse it, whilst the Leavers are more fired up than Mount Vesuvius ?
My head tells me the turnout to some extent will be self-correcting and that the UK (incl. NI and Gibraltar) will conspire to deliver a result of 51% or 52% to Remain.
But I could be wrong and there could be something more visceral going on here.
Dunno.
Put a gun to most people's heads and they couldn't name one ECJ judgement that they believe has infringed our sovereignty.
But they sure as hell would be able to tell you the immigration numbers.
Votes for prisoners.
They'd also cite Human Rights for terrorists (even though that's far more complicated as it's a function of ECHR v. Charter of Fundamental Rights v. ECJ v. UK's own HRA)
QED
Not really. People are aware that the EU is infringing on our justice and home affairs policy, and don't like it.
Whether they don't like it enough for it to influence their vote is another matter of course.
People are being told that the EU is infringing on our justice, and home affairs policy. But I bet if we went to that bloke's shop and asked his customers to give examples, they wouldn't be able to.
The EU is just a convenient scapegoat for the perceived loss of control of our lives in this ever more complex world. If we leave it, another will emerge.
I don't think that's true in the slightest. I don't even think you in your heart of hearts believe it either.
We have just reached the state now where all you're doing is rationalising your decision to vote Remain.
Just looking over the archives for April 2015 before the GE, and Ave_It was predicting another 1992- Tories 38% and Labour28% I wonder how right even he thought he was? I wonder what he is predicting for the ref?
Ave_It came out for LEAVE a few nights ago!
Most important intervention of the campaign, IMO...
Ave It is awesome. The fact that he has bought me the odd beer at a PB drinks do is entirely unconnected.
No side that expected to win comfortably would have had supporters discussing ways in which Parliament could ignore the result.
(1) Talk of ignoring the result (2) Total saturation of Canary Wharf yesterday with adverts to vote Remain (3) Cameron pushing a Little England, Greater Britain line (4) Last minute press conference by PM (5) Pushing out voter registration deadline
So if Remain win by 10-20 points, which nefarious skulduggery will have done it?
I'm not falling prey to hubris but I don't think that's where we're heading.
If you doubt my sincerity, check my entry into the pb.com competition where I predicted 58/42 to Remain.
Both TSE and the originator of Vapid Bilge had Remain at over 60%
Point of order, my prediction was Remain by around 12-15%, which is Remain on tops 57.5%
That's your prediction now, it wasn't then.
It was my hope and aspiration, I wasn't expecting the Farage lite duplicitous foghorn Boris and Gove are playing on Turkey.
I thought they were better than that.
Ah, there we have it.
You might remember my other prediction from February. If Leave were spending the last few weeks of the referendum talking exclusively about immigration/Muslims then it was purely a core vote strategy by Leave in anticipation of a shellacking.
We have a lot of other evidence that seems to suggest otherwise.
And Gove on Friday night talked about the positive case for Leave, "Project Hope", so.. no.
If immigration really was the most important issue in the country, UKIP would have more than one MP.
Have you ever noticed UKIP have never won a Westminster seat without a defector-incumbent.
And on that note, I'm going to campaign for the Remain. West Yorkshire, brace yourselves.
having watched the second episode, it's worse than the first one. The 'star in a rallycross car' segment is MUCH too long, among other problems.
Sabine wasn't involved this week. Instead we had 3 musicians, and (presumably because they couldn't find a conjuror and a steel band) Eddie Jordan, who was woefully out of his depth and looked like a refugee from a Punch and Judy show.
Get Sabine back and have a regular cast of no more than 3.
As always, the fundamental problem was, is, and probably will remain, Chris Evans. He is out of his depth, does not have the skill or gravitas to carry the show on his back. He is much more suited to Top 40 radio than a TV role.
Finally, I have to say it: Top Gear US is now better than Top Gear UK. Why? Because it's based on 3 guys cocking about and teasing each other. Maybe that's an idea the BBC could pursue.
We are promised major changes in episode 3 next week. One can only hope. The show is being panned and ratings are down world wide.
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We have a housing shortage in the UK, and have done for many years. Certainly since before the accession countries joined the EU.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Just looking over the archives for April 2015 before the GE, and Ave_It was predicting another 1992- Tories 38% and Labour28% I wonder how right even he thought he was? I wonder what he is predicting for the ref?
Ave_It came out for LEAVE a few nights ago!
Most important intervention of the campaign, IMO...
Ave It is awesome. The fact that he has bought me the odd beer at a PB drinks do is entirely unconnected.
Finally, I have to say it: Top Gear US is now better than Top Gear UK. Why? Because it's based on 3 guys cocking about and teasing each other. Maybe that's an idea the BBC could pursue.
Wooooo steady on now...its crap, but its not THAT crap...
No side that expected to win comfortably would have had supporters discussing ways in which Parliament could ignore the result.
(1) Talk of ignoring the result (2) Total saturation of Canary Wharf yesterday with adverts to vote Remain (3) Cameron pushing a Little England, Greater Britain line (4) Last minute press conference by PM (5) Pushing out voter registration deadline
So if Remain win by 10-20 points, which nefarious skulduggery will have done it?
I'm not falling prey to hubris but I don't think that's where we're heading.
If you doubt my sincerity, check my entry into the pb.com competition where I predicted 58/42 to Remain.
Both TSE and the originator of Vapid Bilge had Remain at over 60%
Point of order, my prediction was Remain by around 12-15%, which is Remain on tops 57.5%
That's your prediction now, it wasn't then.
It was my hope and aspiration, I wasn't expecting the Farage lite duplicitous foghorn Boris and Gove are playing on Turkey.
I thought they were better than that.
Ah, there we have it.
You might remember my other prediction from February. If Leave were spending the last few weeks of the referendum talking exclusively about immigration/Muslims then it was purely a core vote strategy by Leave in anticipation of a shellacking.
Actually it is hitting Leave's strongest point at the most effective time.
As we barrel towards June 23rd and a vote which is increasingly less about the UK’s future in the EU and more about wanting to be able to gloat at those fuckers on Facebook – formerly your friends and family – who have lost.....
Gibraltar also has a different constitutional relationship with the UK, than Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Gibraltar is an Overseas Territory (along with your Falklands, Diego Garcia, Bermuda et al.)
Man, Guernsey and Jersey are Crown Dependencies.
Do people in the IoM and Channel Isles get a vote in the referendum then?
Channel Islands no - because they are not in the EU (apart from the Customs Union) and are not part of the UK.
If it was an organisation chart, the Channel Islands would report directly to the Queen....
Emerges boldly from pedant's corner.
The Queen? You mean the Duke of Normandy surely in their case? (Oddly she is the Duke I think and not the Duchess - go figure).
That is a popularly held, but possibly mistaken, view:
The title of duke of Normandy was renounced by Henry III in 1259, and removed from his seal and official styles in 1260. It was never again used in the official styles of his successors, except in a few homages by Norman vassals to Edward III in 1356, and by Henry V, occasionally, in documents concerning occupied Normandy between 1417 and 1419. Furthermore, in both instances the use of the title was indistinguishable from the English king's claim to the throne of France, and hence was unrelated to the title held until 1259. In over 750 years, it was used once by an English sovereign to describe himself in his relation to the Channel islands.
There is no trace of its use for the past 390 years.
Loyal subjects in the Islands, just as those in Lancashire, may well toast their Queen as "Duke". But that does not make her one, any more than the people of Vanuatu who worship the duke of Edinburgh as a god make him one.
Gibraltar also has a different constitutional relationship with the UK, than Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Gibraltar is an Overseas Territory (along with your Falklands, Diego Garcia, Bermuda et al.)
Man, Guernsey and Jersey are Crown Dependencies.
Do people in the IoM and Channel Isles get a vote in the referendum then?
Channel Islands no - because they are not in the EU (apart from the Customs Union) and are not part of the UK.
If it was an organisation chart, the Channel Islands would report directly to the Queen....
Emerges boldly from pedant's corner.
The Queen? You mean the Duke of Normandy surely in their case? (Oddly she is the Duke I think and not the Duchess - go figure).
That is a popularly held, but possibly mistaken, view:
The title of duke of Normandy was renounced by Henry III in 1259, and removed from his seal and official styles in 1260. It was never again used in the official styles of his successors, except in a few homages by Norman vassals to Edward III in 1356, and by Henry V, occasionally, in documents concerning occupied Normandy between 1417 and 1419. Furthermore, in both instances the use of the title was indistinguishable from the English king's claim to the throne of France, and hence was unrelated to the title held until 1259. In over 750 years, it was used once by an English sovereign to describe himself in his relation to the Channel islands.
There is no trace of its use for the past 390 years.
Loyal subjects in the Islands, just as those in Lancashire, may well toast their Queen as "Duke". But that does not make her one, any more than the people of Vanuatu who worship the duke of Edinburgh as a god make him one.
The British historian Ben Pimlott noted that while Queen Elizabeth II was on a visit to mainland Normandy in May 1967, French locals began to doff their hats and shout "Vive la Duchesse!", to which the Queen supposedly replied "Well, I am The Duke of Normandy!".[
I think she gave herself the dukedom at that point
The quietness of Remainers has more to do with the fact that quite a few of them have evidently decided that they have better things to do with their time than hang around somewhere where they routinely get called quislings and traitors by swivel-eyed Leavers.
I'm loving it. It fortifies my soul when I go out campaigning. Which I'm going to do tonight, again.
The interesting thing is how few PB leavers seem to be out campaigning for Leave.
So let me get this right.
First there was the 9m pound brochure Most of the world's great and the good telling us the world would end World War 3 "could" happen we are told Economic Armageddon "could" happen we are told Refugee camps in Kent "could" happen we are told Leave have all the unsavory types like Farage Remain have all the saints like the ABoC and Obama Three months of campaigning with the full force of the civil service AND the Leavers can't be bothered to go out and canvass apparently.
That must explain why Remain is 20% ahead in the polls.
Christ, you must come to the UK, living in The Philippines really is distorting your perception of reality.
If I come back and find Britain is not the PB Tory utopia I imagined I will be very disappointed.
It won't be PB Tory utopia until George Osborne becomes PM.
Finally, I have to say it: Top Gear US is now better than Top Gear UK. Why? Because it's based on 3 guys cocking about and teasing each other. Maybe that's an idea the BBC could pursue.
Wooooo steady on now...its crap, but its not THAT crap...
Afraid so - watched a couple of episodes of the new series last night. The are improving even as the new Top Gear heads downhill rapidly.
Just looking over the archives for April 2015 before the GE, and Ave_It was predicting another 1992- Tories 38% and Labour28% I wonder how right even he thought he was? I wonder what he is predicting for the ref?
Ave_It came out for LEAVE a few nights ago!
Most important intervention of the campaign, IMO...
Ave It is awesome. The fact that he has bought me the odd beer at a PB drinks do is entirely unconnected.
It sounded like he is being pursued by HMRC while Cameron and Osborne shower his hard earned money on layabouts and losers (paraphrasing)
So he's going to pull the plug on them via the referendum.
Gibraltar also has a different constitutional relationship with the UK, than Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Gibraltar is an Overseas Territory (along with your Falklands, Diego Garcia, Bermuda et al.)
Man, Guernsey and Jersey are Crown Dependencies.
Do people in the IoM and Channel Isles get a vote in the referendum then?
Channel Islands no - because they are not in the EU (apart from the Customs Union) and are not part of the UK.
If it was an organisation chart, the Channel Islands would report directly to the Queen....
Emerges boldly from pedant's corner.
The Queen? You mean the Duke of Normandy surely in their case? (Oddly she is the Duke I think and not the Duchess - go figure).
That is a popularly held, but possibly mistaken, view:
The title of duke of Normandy was renounced by Henry III in 1259, and removed from his seal and official styles in 1260. It was never again used in the official styles of his successors, except in a few homages by Norman vassals to Edward III in 1356, and by Henry V, occasionally, in documents concerning occupied Normandy between 1417 and 1419. Furthermore, in both instances the use of the title was indistinguishable from the English king's claim to the throne of France, and hence was unrelated to the title held until 1259. In over 750 years, it was used once by an English sovereign to describe himself in his relation to the Channel islands.
There is no trace of its use for the past 390 years.
Loyal subjects in the Islands, just as those in Lancashire, may well toast their Queen as "Duke". But that does not make her one, any more than the people of Vanuatu who worship the duke of Edinburgh as a god make him one.
I shouldn't worry - you're in the very best company:
...... HM visiting France, Normandy specifically, in a private capacity.
"peasants in the villages knew they were coming. Some doffed their caps and shouted "Vive la Duchesse!" (Well, I am Duke of Normandy,' said the Queen)"
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Gibraltar also has a different constitutional relationship with the UK, than Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Gibraltar is an Overseas Territory (along with your Falklands, Diego Garcia, Bermuda et al.)
Man, Guernsey and Jersey are Crown Dependencies.
Do people in the IoM and Channel Isles get a vote in the referendum then?
Channel Islands no - because they are not in the EU (apart from the Customs Union) and are not part of the UK.
If it was an organisation chart, the Channel Islands would report directly to the Queen....
Emerges boldly from pedant's corner.
The Queen? You mean the Duke of Normandy surely in their case? (Oddly she is the Duke I think and not the Duchess - go figure).
That is a popularly held, but possibly mistaken, view:
The title of duke of Normandy was renounced by Henry III in 1259, and removed from his seal and official styles in 1260. It was never again used in the official styles of his successors, except in a few homages by Norman vassals to Edward III in 1356, and by Henry V, occasionally, in documents concerning occupied Normandy between 1417 and 1419. Furthermore, in both instances the use of the title was indistinguishable from the English king's claim to the throne of France, and hence was unrelated to the title held until 1259. In over 750 years, it was used once by an English sovereign to describe himself in his relation to the Channel islands.
There is no trace of its use for the past 390 years.
Loyal subjects in the Islands, just as those in Lancashire, may well toast their Queen as "Duke". But that does not make her one, any more than the people of Vanuatu who worship the duke of Edinburgh as a god make him one.
I shouldn't worry - you're in the very best company:
...... HM visiting France, Normandy specifically, in a private capacity.
"peasants in the villages knew they were coming. Some doffed their caps and shouted "Vive la Duchesse!" (Well, I am Duke of Normandy,' said the Queen)"
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We have a housing shortage in the UK, and have done for many years. Certainly since before the accession countries joined the EU.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Housing shortage? People forced to sleep in parks? I remember when the population of the UK fell. Population growth in the Naughties was due to immigration. This is unprecedented.
Also, it is morally bankrupt to sympathise with those having trouble housing themselves whilst simultaneously increasing demand for housing through unfettered immigration.
Headline figures (excl DK/WNV) 57(.4)% Remain, 42(.6)% Leave but of these: 10/10 Certain to Vote 72% Remain, 79% Leave None of this differential in turnout has been adjusted for.
Confine the poll to those who declare themselves 10/10 certain to vote (=67% of total, similar to GE turnout levels) and you get a split of 55% Remain 45% Leave. Not exactly an overwhelming lead for Remain in what should be its best region in England.
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We have a housing shortage in the UK, and have done for many years. Certainly since before the accession countries joined the EU.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Housing shortage? People forced to sleep in parks? I remember when the population of the UK fell. Population growth in the Naughties was due to immigration. This is unprecedented.
Also, it is morally bankrupt to sympathise with those having trouble housing themselves whilst simultaneously increasing demand for housing through unfettered immigration.
Either we have a housing shortage and need to build houses every four minutes or we don't. Make up your mind.
There are 15 X 24 - 4 minute periods in a day = 360 That means there are 131,400 such periods in a year.
Immigration is 335000 (minimum) - so 1 house for nearly every three immigrants seems reasonable.
So easily covered by the promise from each government for the past 20 years (at least) to build their famous 200,000 new homes a year.
But that was BEFORE migration shot off - wasn't it!?
Not 100% sure it was. Every government for decades has promised to build more houses. They have failed (remember Avery LP's famous yellow boxes on housing starts, I could find the stats if I could be bothered).
Certainly pre-dated the immigration explosion so it is a pre-existing problem.
Headline on referendum Remain 41%, Leave 41%. Now level pegging, compared to 2% Remain lead a month previously.
No adjustment to headline figure for turnout, no question on likelihood to vote either. But the age split certainly suggests that Leave would be ahead if there were one: i.e. 18-24 Remain 67%, Leave 15%. 65+ Remain 33%, Leave 56%
No side that expected to win comfortably would have had supporters discussing ways in which Parliament could ignore the result.
(1) Talk of ignoring the result (2) Total saturation of Canary Wharf yesterday with adverts to vote Remain (3) Cameron pushing a Little England, Greater Britain line (4) Last minute press conference by PM (5) Pushing out voter registration deadline
So if Remain win by 10-20 points, which nefarious skulduggery will have done it?
I'm not falling prey to hubris but I don't think that's where we're heading.
If you doubt my sincerity, check my entry into the pb.com competition where I predicted 58/42 to Remain.
Both TSE and the originator of Vapid Bilge had Remain at over 60%
Point of order, my prediction was Remain by around 12-15%, which is Remain on tops 57.5%
That's your prediction now, it wasn't then.
It was my hope and aspiration, I wasn't expecting the Farage lite duplicitous foghorn Boris and Gove are playing on Turkey.
I thought they were better than that.
Isn't Boris partly Turkish?
Also, after Cameron's sick-making attacks on Khan a Cameron fanboy like yourself has no cause for complaint.
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We have a housing shortage in the UK, and have done for many years. Certainly since before the accession countries joined the EU.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Housing shortage? People forced to sleep in parks? I remember when the population of the UK fell. Population growth in the Naughties was due to immigration. This is unprecedented.
Also, it is morally bankrupt to sympathise with those having trouble housing themselves whilst simultaneously increasing demand for housing through unfettered immigration.
Either we have a housing shortage and need to build houses every four minutes or we don't. Make up your mind.
btw, how much immigration is acceptable for you?
Well you know how crowded London is these days - imagine it with another Million people pushing to get on the Tube in 4 or 5 years time.
Headline on referendum Remain 41%, Leave 41%. Now level pegging, compared to 2% Remain lead a month previously.
No adjustment to headline figure for turnout, no question on likelihood to vote either. But the age split certainly suggests that Leave would be ahead if there were one: i.e. 18-24 Remain 67%, Leave 15%. 65+ Remain 33%, Leave 56%
The age profile splits really are gobsmackingly large.
having watched the second episode, it's worse than the first one. The 'star in a rallycross car' segment is MUCH too long, among other problems.
Sabine wasn't involved this week. Instead we had 3 musicians, and (presumably because they couldn't find a conjuror and a steel band) Eddie Jordan, who was woefully out of his depth and looked like a refugee from a Punch and Judy show.
Get Sabine back and have a regular cast of no more than 3.
As always, the fundamental problem was, is, and probably will remain, Chris Evans. He is out of his depth, does not have the skill or gravitas to carry the show on his back. He is much more suited to Top 40 radio than a TV role.
Finally, I have to say it: Top Gear US is now better than Top Gear UK. Why? Because it's based on 3 guys cocking about and teasing each other. Maybe that's an idea the BBC could pursue.
We are promised major changes in episode 3 next week. One can only hope. The show is being panned and ratings are down world wide.
Hurry up Amazon - we are more than ready!
The fundamental problem is not Evans per se, it's the fact Clarkson, Hammond, May and Wilman reinvented the old car show format in a style of their choosing and it continued to evolve (note that even early "new" Top Gears look old hat and clunky when viewed now against the slick and polished output until last year). Evans et al needed to come in and reinvent it, and I expected they were going to, he is accomplished enough to do it and had the full force of the BBC (and its £200m pa at stake) to make sure it happened.
Instead they're trying to carry on with the Clarkson et al format and style. That's why the first one was shit, and why viewers didn't tune in for ep 2.
It's sunk, and probably too late now to "reinvent" it as they should have done. Top Gear can only come back from this if Clarkson et al come back. Which I still think will happen, eventually...
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We have a housing shortage in the UK, and have done for many years. Certainly since before the accession countries joined the EU.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Housing shortage? People forced to sleep in parks? I remember when the population of the UK fell. Population growth in the Naughties was due to immigration. This is unprecedented.
Also, it is morally bankrupt to sympathise with those having trouble housing themselves whilst simultaneously increasing demand for housing through unfettered immigration.
Either we have a housing shortage and need to build houses every four minutes or we don't. Make up your mind.
btw, how much immigration is acceptable for you?
Well, let's have a rational plan for population growth, what's needed in addition to natural growth for industries etc., how much Green Belt has to be ploughed under, how many schools, hospitals, etc. need to built and myriad other factors and get democratic assent fo this plan.
Have just voted Leave by post! Has the system of Electoral Registration changed in recent years? From memory I had understood that people could only register in respect of the address at which they were living on October 15th of a given year and that such a register came into operation the following February.
Heard Iain Dale earlier ask Alex Salmond about those Scandinavian countries that are holding evening classes for Muslim men on the way to behave towards western women. He just totally brushed off the question, as he was more interested in smearing Nigel Farage as a racist.
The left have been playing the racist card for years because they know it just shuts down the debate.
@DPJHodges: So just to be clear, the Electoral Commission have also been taken over by the Euro Lizards?
Nope they have been taken over by incompetents. It seems like every election now we are getting issues from them. Add to that the anti-Tory diatribe a few days ago by someone from the EC and you get the impression they are really not in control.
There is no housing shortage in the UK, there is just a surplus of people wishing to live in London.
If we had a half sensible interest rate and we stopped the enormous housing benefit subsidy in London, it would go some of the way to remedying it.
That said, a local family man (or woman) trying to raise a family is never going to be able to meet the rent that half a dozen transient workers will if they share a house, a room apiece.
@DPJHodges: So just to be clear, the Electoral Commission have also been taken over by the Euro Lizards?
Nope they have been taken over by incompetents. It seems like every election now we are getting issues from them. Add to that the anti-Tory diatribe a few days ago by someone from the EC and you get the impression they are really not in control.
And yet Cameron still lacks the spine to sack any of them.
Have just voted Leave by post! Has the system of Electoral Registration changed in recent years? From memory I had understood that people could only register in respect of the address at which they were living on October 15th of a given year and that such a register came into operation the following February.
Yes, new system means voters under the age of 30 are only allowed to register in a 2 hour window from 10pm to midnight 16 days before the vote - it's a disgrace!
Have just voted Leave by post! Has the system of Electoral Registration changed in recent years? From memory I had understood that people could only register in respect of the address at which they were living on October 15th of a given year and that such a register came into operation the following February.
Yes, new system means voters under the age of 30 are only allowed to register in a 2 hour window from 10pm to midnight 16 days before the vote - it's a disgrace!
The deadline was 12 midnight, not 10pm when the website ceased to function.
@DPJHodges: So just to be clear, the Electoral Commission have also been taken over by the Euro Lizards?
Nope they have been taken over by incompetents. It seems like every election now we are getting issues from them. Add to that the anti-Tory diatribe a few days ago by someone from the EC and you get the impression they are really not in control.
While I do question her neutrality, those posts were from five/six years ago.
@DPJHodges: So just to be clear, the Electoral Commission have also been taken over by the Euro Lizards?
Nope they have been taken over by incompetents. It seems like every election now we are getting issues from them. Add to that the anti-Tory diatribe a few days ago by someone from the EC and you get the impression they are really not in control.
And yet Cameron still lacks the spine to sack any of them.
I think the only one he might be able to sack is the lady at the top and I am not even sure if he has the power to do that. Is the EC part of the Civil Service or is it a quango?
Have just voted Leave by post! Has the system of Electoral Registration changed in recent years? From memory I had understood that people could only register in respect of the address at which they were living on October 15th of a given year and that such a register came into operation the following February.
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We have a housing shortage in the UK, and have done for many years. Certainly since before the accession countries joined the EU.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Housing shortage? People forced to sleep in parks? I remember when the population of the UK fell. Population growth in the Naughties was due to immigration. This is unprecedented.
Also, it is morally bankrupt to sympathise with those having trouble housing themselves whilst simultaneously increasing demand for housing through unfettered immigration.
Either we have a housing shortage and need to build houses every four minutes or we don't. Make up your mind.
btw, how much immigration is acceptable for you?
Well you know how crowded London is these days - imagine it with another Million people pushing to get on the Tube in 4 or 5 years time.
Hell on earth - if we don't vote Leave.
I imagine the London underground would be like this train in Japan:
Have just voted Leave by post! Has the system of Electoral Registration changed in recent years? From memory I had understood that people could only register in respect of the address at which they were living on October 15th of a given year and that such a register came into operation the following February.
Yes, new system means voters under the age of 30 are only allowed to register in a 2 hour window from 10pm to midnight 16 days before the vote - it's a disgrace!
At the rate Cameron is going registration will be extended to June 23rd with a free trip to Ibiza for all under 25s who sign themselves up!
@DPJHodges: So just to be clear, the Electoral Commission have also been taken over by the Euro Lizards?
Nope they have been taken over by incompetents. It seems like every election now we are getting issues from them. Add to that the anti-Tory diatribe a few days ago by someone from the EC and you get the impression they are really not in control.
And yet Cameron still lacks the spine to sack any of them.
I think the only one he might be able to sack is the lady at the top and I am not even sure if he has the power to do that. Is the EC part of the Civil Service or is it a quango?
Wikipedia says it is independent of government and answerable to Parliament. Not sure if that puts it outside the Civil Service.
Have just voted Leave by post! Has the system of Electoral Registration changed in recent years? From memory I had understood that people could only register in respect of the address at which they were living on October 15th of a given year and that such a register came into operation the following February.
No side that expected to win comfortably would have had supporters discussing ways in which Parliament could ignore the result.
(1) Talk of ignoring the result (2) Total saturation of Canary Wharf yesterday with adverts to vote Remain (3) Cameron pushing a Little England, Greater Britain line (4) Last minute press conference by PM (5) Pushing out voter registration deadline
So if Remain win by 10-20 points, which nefarious skulduggery will have done it?
I'm not falling prey to hubris but I don't think that's where we're heading.
If you doubt my sincerity, check my entry into the pb.com competition where I predicted 58/42 to Remain.
Both TSE and the originator of Vapid Bilge had Remain at over 60%
Point of order, my prediction was Remain by around 12-15%, which is Remain on tops 57.5%
That's your prediction now, it wasn't then.
It was my hope and aspiration, I wasn't expecting the Farage lite duplicitous foghorn Boris and Gove are playing on Turkey.
I thought they were better than that.
Ah, there we have it.
You might remember my other prediction from February. If Leave were spending the last few weeks of the referendum talking exclusively about immigration/Muslims then it was purely a core vote strategy by Leave in anticipation of a shellacking.
We have a lot of other evidence that seems to suggest otherwise.
And Gove on Friday night talked about the positive case for Leave, "Project Hope", so.. no.
If immigration really was the most important issue in the country, UKIP would have more than one MP.
Have you ever noticed UKIP have never won a Westminster seat without a defector-incumbent.
And on that note, I'm going to campaign for the Remain. West Yorkshire, brace yourselves.
Why don't you give us actual numbers when you finish, rather than your usual vague hint?
OK I am going to risk making an idiot of myself now.
Based on:
* Trend in Recent Polls (not the overall figures) * The recent craziness from Remain politicians and mass die off of Remain supporters Here. * There 57-43 remain vote in the london opinion poll which included all those who expressed even a 10% chance of voting and noted 50% of 18-24s probably wouldn't vote. * Polls in Wales showing basically 50/50 * Lord Haywards research in todays Telegraph.
I make the following prediction. Short of heaven forfend a terrible event (as happened before that election in Spain) or other major black swan event in the same league
Leave victory, with 60% chance of the margin exceeding that of the Scottish Referendum.
Europe's biggest investor, Mohamed El-Erian on Brexit:
“There are two fundamental divisions of the EU: There’s the British view — that it’s a super free-trade zone, that it’s a destination. Whereas the Germany-France view is that it’s a means to something else — to an ever closer union. These are fundamentally two very different views on what the EU is about. If the referendum [results in the U.K. remaining in the union], we don’t resolve these different views. It means we are going to have tensions over and over again, because they are pursuing two different objectives, within one institutional agreement. So, ironically, over the longer term, an exit may actually solve one of the basic inconsistencies of the European Union.”
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We have a housing shortage in the UK, and have done for many years. Certainly since before the accession countries joined the EU.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Housing shortage? People forced to sleep in parks? I remember when the population of the UK fell. Population growth in the Naughties was due to immigration. This is unprecedented.
Also, it is morally bankrupt to sympathise with those having trouble housing themselves whilst simultaneously increasing demand for housing through unfettered immigration.
Either we have a housing shortage and need to build houses every four minutes or we don't. Make up your mind.
btw, how much immigration is acceptable for you?
Well, let's have a rational plan for population growth, what's needed in addition to natural growth for industries etc., how much Green Belt has to be ploughed under, how many schools, hospitals, etc. need to built and myriad other factors and get democratic assent fo this plan.
Then I'll tell you.
The plan will be wholesale demolition of 1920s and 1930s estates of houses with decent gardens and replacement with flats because it is the only practicable way.
I have crossed the Leave box on my postal vote, signed it and sealed the envelope. I will post it tomorrow morning on the walk up to the station. I am officially a Leave voter!
OK I am going to risk making an idiot of myself now.
Based on:
* Trend in Recent Polls (not the overall figures) * The recent craziness from Remain politicians and mass die off of Remain supporters Here. * There 57-43 remain vote in the london opinion poll which included all those who expressed even a 10% chance of voting and noted 50% of 18-24s probably wouldn't vote. * Polls in Wales showing basically 50/50 * Lord Haywards research in todays Telegraph.
I make the following prediction. Short of heaven forfend a terrible event (as happened before that election in Spain) or other major black swan event in the same league
Leave victory, with 60% chance of the margin exceeding that of the Scottish Referendum.
Range Leave 53%-57% Remain 43-47%
ORB on Monday had Remain ahead by 1% with those certain to vote, even if by a significantly lower margin than all potential voters
Pew Reseach have found that only 6% of British people want more powers transferred to the EU. It is quite surprising how few people realise that the EU is a political project whose ultimate aim is ever closer union.
Or that the UK has achieved special status via an opt out from that ever closer union.
How many of the British public do you figure are aware of that detail ?
0.000001%
Which supports my point that people are voting emotively because the EU is a convenient bogeyman whom it is easy to blame for any number of other things, from a lack of school places, to the preponderance of the WWC appearing on Jeremy Kyle.
A case in point (apologies to respond to my own post...having fun here...) - Nigel's latest tweet that we would need to build a new home every four minutes to accommodate current immigration levels.
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
Do you deny his claim - if so you are basically doing an ad hominem attack.
We have a housing shortage in the UK, and have done for many years. Certainly since before the accession countries joined the EU.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Housing shortage? People forced to sleep in parks? I remember when the population of the UK fell. Population growth in the Naughties was due to immigration. This is unprecedented.
Also, it is morally bankrupt to sympathise with those having trouble housing themselves whilst simultaneously increasing demand for housing through unfettered immigration.
Either we have a housing shortage and need to build houses every four minutes or we don't. Make up your mind.
btw, how much immigration is acceptable for you?
Well you know how crowded London is these days - imagine it with another Million people pushing to get on the Tube in 4 or 5 years time.
Hell on earth - if we don't vote Leave.
I imagine the London underground would be like this train in Japan:
Europe's biggest investor, Mohamed El-Erian on Brexit:
“There are two fundamental divisions of the EU: There’s the British view — that it’s a super free-trade zone, that it’s a destination. Whereas the Germany-France view is that it’s a means to something else — to an ever closer union. These are fundamentally two very different views on what the EU is about. If the referendum [results in the U.K. remaining in the union], we don’t resolve these different views. It means we are going to have tensions over and over again, because they are pursuing two different objectives, within one institutional agreement. So, ironically, over the longer term, an exit may actually solve one of the basic inconsistencies of the European Union.”
Europe's biggest investor, Mohamed El-Erian on Brexit:
“There are two fundamental divisions of the EU: There’s the British view — that it’s a super free-trade zone, that it’s a destination. Whereas the Germany-France view is that it’s a means to something else — to an ever closer union. These are fundamentally two very different views on what the EU is about. If the referendum [results in the U.K. remaining in the union], we don’t resolve these different views. It means we are going to have tensions over and over again, because they are pursuing two different objectives, within one institutional agreement. So, ironically, over the longer term, an exit may actually solve one of the basic inconsistencies of the European Union.”
Have just voted Leave by post! Has the system of Electoral Registration changed in recent years? From memory I had understood that people could only register in respect of the address at which they were living on October 15th of a given year and that such a register came into operation the following February.
Excellent news, Sir.
Did anything sway your vote during recent weeks?
Europe has never been a very salient issue for me one way or the other.However, the sheer contempt that Cameron and Osborne have shown for the British people in this campaign by treating us as fools has persuaded me that this style of politics must not prevail. It is so reminiscent of how they conducted the 2015 election campaign.
I have crossed the Leave box on my postal vote, signed it and sealed the envelope. I will post it tomorrow morning on the walk up to the station. I am officially a Leave voter!
Get your tippex out! There is still time! Please, please, please D Cameron.
Europe has never been a very salient issue for me one way or the other.However, the sheer contempt that Cameron and Osborne have shown for the British people in this campaign by treating us as fools has persuaded me that this style of politics must not prevail. It is so reminiscent of how they conducted the 2015 election campaign.
I have crossed the Leave box on my postal vote, signed it and sealed the envelope. I will post it tomorrow morning on the walk up to the station. I am officially a Leave voter!
Sam Coates Times @SamCoatesTimes On Friday, apparently Stronger In coalition has agreed that it will be Labour's turn to "dominate" the media. *Ed Miliband* is the star turn
Europe's biggest investor, Mohamed El-Erian on Brexit:
“There are two fundamental divisions of the EU: There’s the British view — that it’s a super free-trade zone, that it’s a destination. Whereas the Germany-France view is that it’s a means to something else — to an ever closer union. These are fundamentally two very different views on what the EU is about. If the referendum [results in the U.K. remaining in the union], we don’t resolve these different views. It means we are going to have tensions over and over again, because they are pursuing two different objectives, within one institutional agreement. So, ironically, over the longer term, an exit may actually solve one of the basic inconsistencies of the European Union.”
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*innocent face*
Cowardly Tories
Dave = Lord Addington
REMAIN is young, sexy, cosmopolitan
LEAVE is sweaty, shouty, swivel-eyed
He'd lose a popularity contest against Nicolae Ceaușescu
And Gove on Friday night talked about the positive case for Leave, "Project Hope", so.. no.
LEAVE is experienced, a leader and bold.
The title of duke of Normandy was renounced by Henry III in 1259, and removed from his seal and official styles in 1260. It was never again used in the official styles of his successors, except in a few homages by Norman vassals to Edward III in 1356, and by Henry V, occasionally, in documents concerning occupied Normandy between 1417 and 1419. Furthermore, in both instances the use of the title was indistinguishable from the English king's claim to the throne of France, and hence was unrelated to the title held until 1259.
In over 750 years, it was used once by an English sovereign to describe himself in his relation to the Channel islands.
There is no trace of its use for the past 390 years.
Loyal subjects in the Islands, just as those in Lancashire, may well toast their Queen as "Duke". But that does not make her one, any more than the people of Vanuatu who worship the duke of Edinburgh as a god make him one.
http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/royalstyle_uk.htm#Normandy
The UK has suffered a housing shortage for the past, oh 30 years (ask tim for details). But now, it is the fault of the immigrants and hence we should vote to leave the EU.
Truly he is despicable and I very rarely say that about politicians.
We have just reached the state now where all you're doing is rationalising your decision to vote Remain.
The fact that he has bought me the odd beer at a PB drinks do is entirely unconnected.
Have you ever noticed UKIP have never won a Westminster seat without a defector-incumbent.
And on that note, I'm going to campaign for the Remain. West Yorkshire, brace yourselves.
having watched the second episode, it's worse than the first one. The 'star in a rallycross car' segment is MUCH too long, among other problems.
Sabine wasn't involved this week. Instead we had 3 musicians, and (presumably because they couldn't find a conjuror and a steel band) Eddie Jordan, who was woefully out of his depth and looked like a refugee from a Punch and Judy show.
Get Sabine back and have a regular cast of no more than 3.
As always, the fundamental problem was, is, and probably will remain, Chris Evans. He is out of his depth, does not have the skill or gravitas to carry the show on his back. He is much more suited to Top 40 radio than a TV role.
Finally, I have to say it: Top Gear US is now better than Top Gear UK. Why? Because it's based on 3 guys cocking about and teasing each other. Maybe that's an idea the BBC could pursue.
We are promised major changes in episode 3 next week. One can only hope. The show is being panned and ratings are down world wide.
Hurry up Amazon - we are more than ready!
That means there are 131,400 such periods in a year.
Immigration is 335000 (minimum) - so 1 house for nearly every three immigrants seems reasonable.
The failure has been in successive governments not building enough houses, then and now. Nige is using immigrants as a scapegoat.
So yes, I'll go with the ad hominem. Happy to.
As we barrel towards June 23rd and a vote which is increasingly less about the UK’s future in the EU and more about wanting to be able to gloat at those fuckers on Facebook – formerly your friends and family – who have lost.....
https://excelpope.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/246/
Is she still Lord of Man though?
I think she gave herself the dukedom at that point
https://twitter.com/eyespymp/status/740563695663734786
@bbcquestiontime: Here's this week's #bbcqt panel in full: Chris Grayling @hilarybennmp @Nigel_Farage @eddieizzard @allisonpearson https://t.co/sLyhV9njqH
So he's going to pull the plug on them via the referendum.
...... HM visiting France, Normandy specifically, in a private capacity.
"peasants in the villages knew they were coming. Some doffed their caps and
shouted "Vive la Duchesse!" (Well, I am Duke of Normandy,' said the Queen)"
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.talk.royalty/GKy9i2i2yOM/6MMhfg0o1hAJ
Well if she says she is that's good enough for me!
Population growth in the Naughties was due to immigration. This is unprecedented.
Also, it is morally bankrupt to sympathise with those having trouble housing themselves whilst simultaneously increasing demand for housing through unfettered immigration.
http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/bcpps63ha9/EveningStandard_EUReferendum_160606_W.pdf
Headline figures (excl DK/WNV) 57(.4)% Remain, 42(.6)% Leave
but of these: 10/10 Certain to Vote 72% Remain, 79% Leave
None of this differential in turnout has been adjusted for.
Confine the poll to those who declare themselves 10/10 certain to vote (=67% of total, similar to GE turnout levels) and you get a split of 55% Remain 45% Leave.
Not exactly an overwhelming lead for Remain in what should be its best region in England.
btw, how much immigration is acceptable for you?
Certainly pre-dated the immigration explosion so it is a pre-existing problem.
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/gapliwnrt9/WelshBarometer_June2016_w.pdf
Headline on referendum Remain 41%, Leave 41%. Now level pegging, compared to 2% Remain lead a month previously.
No adjustment to headline figure for turnout, no question on likelihood to vote either. But the age split certainly suggests that Leave would be ahead if there were one:
i.e.
18-24 Remain 67%, Leave 15%.
65+ Remain 33%, Leave 56%
Also, after Cameron's sick-making attacks on Khan a Cameron fanboy like yourself has no cause for complaint.
Hell on earth - if we don't vote Leave.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-still-smoke-pm-7023657
Instead they're trying to carry on with the Clarkson et al format and style. That's why the first one was shit, and why viewers didn't tune in for ep 2.
It's sunk, and probably too late now to "reinvent" it as they should have done. Top Gear can only come back from this if Clarkson et al come back. Which I still think will happen, eventually...
Then I'll tell you.
Boris has the stamina to manage 2 hours against the Euro ladies. Cameron managed 30 mins last night, in solus!
Has the system of Electoral Registration changed in recent years? From memory I had understood that people could only register in respect of the address at which they were living on October 15th of a given year and that such a register came into operation the following February.
The left have been playing the racist card for years because they know it just shuts down the debate.
If we had a half sensible interest rate and we stopped the enormous housing benefit subsidy in London, it would go some of the way to remedying it.
That said, a local family man (or woman) trying to raise a family is never going to be able to meet the rent that half a dozen transient workers will if they share a house, a room apiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0A9-oUoMug
Did anything sway your vote during recent weeks?
Based on:
* Trend in Recent Polls (not the overall figures)
* The recent craziness from Remain politicians and mass die off of Remain supporters Here.
* There 57-43 remain vote in the london opinion poll which included all those who expressed even a 10% chance of voting and noted 50% of 18-24s probably wouldn't vote.
* Polls in Wales showing basically 50/50
* Lord Haywards research in todays Telegraph.
I make the following prediction. Short of heaven forfend a terrible event (as happened before that election in Spain) or other major black swan event in the same league
Leave victory, with 60% chance of the margin exceeding that of the Scottish Referendum.
Range Leave 53%-57% Remain 43-47%
“There are two fundamental divisions of the EU: There’s the British view — that it’s a super free-trade zone, that it’s a destination. Whereas the Germany-France view is that it’s a means to something else — to an ever closer union. These are fundamentally two very different views on what the EU is about. If the referendum [results in the U.K. remaining in the union], we don’t resolve these different views. It means we are going to have tensions over and over again, because they are pursuing two different objectives, within one institutional agreement. So, ironically, over the longer term, an exit may actually solve one of the basic inconsistencies of the European Union.”
http://order-order.com/2016/06/08/europes-biggest-investor-brexit-good-for-eu/
It will be upward growth not outward.
Commieblocks, as they are called in east Germany.
Please, please, please
D Cameron.
Good to know you voted LEAVE!
On Friday, apparently Stronger In coalition has agreed that it will be Labour's turn to "dominate" the media. *Ed Miliband* is the star turn