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In reply to the discussion: OMG, what terrible news to wake up to [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)59. Someone on the BBC compared him to Eden and the Suez crisis
A huge miscalculation that has far-reaching effects.
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There is a lot in between 'homogeneous one -world government' and xenophobic Balkanization
LeftishBrit
Jun 2016
#11
Blaming the problems of the past 5 years on the Tory successors to Thatcher is not silly
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#48
Everything listed in the sentence that begins with the words "What people DO have a problem with"...
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#22
Surely the issues you list arise from the action or inaction of successive UK governments
TubbersUK
Jun 2016
#47
That didn't stop Sarah Palin attacking that strawman with death by English abuse, though
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#69
that is a huge choice for scotland . They should do what is in their own interest
swhisper1
Jun 2016
#3
The pound is down to a buck thirty three--that's as weak as I have seen it since the seventies. nt
MADem
Jun 2016
#4
Since it will take a couple of years for the BREXIT to be realized, maybe things will
still_one
Jun 2016
#5
The result over the next two years could be a return to the common market model perhaps with
Monk06
Jun 2016
#8
Some of the fright wing media owners, e.g. the Murdoch gang, are the same in both countries!
LeftishBrit
Jun 2016
#57
Spot on. Just as Reaganism continues to destroy the US middle class 30 years on, Thatcherism is
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#44
The UNITED Kingdom's days are numbered. Scotland will opt out and into Europe.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#20
Scotland is already talking of a new referendum to leave the UK. It will happen,
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#27
Well, Spain is pretty keen on its fishing rights in Scottish (UK) territorial waters,
Denzil_DC
Jun 2016
#37
I just read the headlines too. I just didn't think it would happen. People voting against themselves
underpants
Jun 2016
#21
Rich sods, toffs, elitists - you mean Boris and Farage and Murdoch and the press barons? I think
LeftishBrit
Jun 2016
#76