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LeftishBrit

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21. Thanks for your support!
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 03:55 AM
Apr 2017

A combination of anti-immigrant attitudes (always Britain's Achilles heel), and a weird sort of nostalgia, I'd say: e.g. one of the biggest predictors of a Leave vote was support for the restoration of capital punishment! Plus the fact that most people - including me until very recently - know very little about the EU; and that we were told a lot of alternative facts, or in other words LIES!

Their business. TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2017 #1
May's already sucked up to Trump when they met early on in his reign. Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #2
As I wrote, I have no problems with Britain TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2017 #3
And as I wrote, Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #5
Are you a citizen of Britain? TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2017 #7
Yes, I am. Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #8
I get the pun TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2017 #11
This is the UK forum; I have always lived here LeftishBrit Mar 2017 #12
Most countries nowadays are in some sort of trading bloc LeftishBrit Mar 2017 #9
I'm a regular BBC listener. TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2017 #10
And most trading blocks don't want to build TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2017 #13
Well, NATO leaders already "control my country's destiny". Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #14
Not "the Germans" TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2017 #15
The way things are going, the country you visit will likely be a lot nastier and poorer. Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #16
No axes to grind. Just an opinion TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2017 #17
Wrong about Merkel T_i_B Mar 2017 #18
Lessons learned recently. yallerdawg Mar 2017 #4
Tusk's speech in reply: Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #6
The EU Council's negotiating principles Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #19
My best wishes to all you Brits during this extremely stressful time steve2470 Apr 2017 #20
Thanks for your support! LeftishBrit Apr 2017 #21
I voted remain Dworkin Apr 2017 #22
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