'The Brexit Arms' is now open. Friendly cosy pub with log fire for leavers & remainers to chat & ponder life, the universe, & Brexit.

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You are all most welcome

How's that for bullying?

it's very childish to do it for that particular reason - it's like having a tantrum because you didn't get your own way.

I'm pretty sure many people have declined to spend their money at any number of establishments for all manner of perceived slights. I'd say that declining to spend my money at a chain whose management have been at the forefront of what I consider an economically disastrous and socially destructive course of events, is not childish. IMO.

That's a horrible word Cxc.
Not far removed from when Smallfox was telling 'dribbling moron brexiters' to 'wipe their chins'.

Foul.

Also, shock horror at Bear appearing just to have a pop at someone.
Same shit, different day...

The part in brackets where she says Brexiters never blame Brexit? You make no sense.

ww sorry I don't fancy you, quite the opposite, your views and deliberately provactive posting style appall me.

You seem to be saying things now just to get a reaction. Stupidly I've risen to the bait.

Yes that part. Do you ever have a conversation without being insulting? Your posts suggest an inferiority comes and need for validation.

From you, I take that as the highest praise.

You love me, you want to hug me, you want to kiss me

I can think of no other reason for this devoted attention

A horrible word? Oh dear... Someone needs to grow a thicker skin or drop the damsel in distress act.

This pub reminds of the Frog and Friggit.

What do you mean - how is that praise? Don't get it

'Damsel in distress act'??!!

Actual lol.

Mango did you even have a drink yet

Element said it was leavers doing that I think?

Um, nope.

I think I'm off to the pub down the road tbh WW, they've a quiz on apparently..!

That s great because apart from the boycott there were other reasons that I could find without . Seeing the actual as l report. So apart from any boycott, not a brexit effect

Ha have fun
Lost you, lost my boyf
I'll have to go and empty the dishwasher

Manon I was at Zaventem airport 12 hours before it blew up, my husband was in Paris just after Bataclan, and I lived through the IRA bombing campaigns of the 70s and 80s with the added frisson of being a services kid and then wife. Checking under the car every day was standard, as was varying the time and route of the commute to work.

I wasn't justifying anti semitism, I was asking how that is deemed acceptable, but to breathe a word of criticism about Islam brings accusations of Islamophobia. Just as the Christian churches have had to be forced to confront the paedophilia in their midst, I think Islam needs to confront the radicalism and extremism that some espouse.

Red Belgian intelligence is poor, and the problem is not language, but the six different police zones in Brussels:
Police zones

Formerly managed by the communes, the police service was restructured in January 2001. Belgium was split into 196 police zones, also known as inter-police zones or by the French acronym ZIP.
There are six police zones in the Brussels-Capital Region. Each one covers several communes and has its own police regulations:

Police zone 5339: Brussels City and Ixelles
Police zone Brussels-West 5340: Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Koekelberg, Jette, Ganshoren and Berchem-Sainte-Agathe
Police zone Midi 5341: Anderlecht, Saint-Gilles and Forest
Police zone 5342: Uccle, Watermael-Boitsfort and Auderghem
Police zone Montgomery 5343: Etterbeek, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre and Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Police zone 5344: Schaerbeek, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and Evere

This means there are effectively six different police forces who don't liaise very well, if at all.

I don't know why you think the threat hasn't increased...that's why there are snipers on the roof of the airport presumably? I'm waiting for the other boot to fall.

It's all very well to say that we should look in a mirror at the cause of the terrorism, but really, people are making a decision to kill others regardless. Do we excuse that because we are liberals? Tell that to the widow of a US diplomat killed in the metro bomb, or the mum of a 17 year old who has lost her lower limbs as a result of being at the airport.

I think the migrant crisis has helped with getting into Europe sans papers and enabled people to disappear that are on watch lists. It's one thing to have dangerous people who we know about and can keep an eye on...it's another when we don't even know they are here.

Radical Islam is a failing of Islam, in particular wahhabism. It is not something that can or will be solved by those outside the Ummah. The will to challenge and change this has to come from the inside.

The headlines don't scream ' Jihadis have taken over Belgium', the articles I linked to, especially the one from the Atlantic, asks pertinent questions, and points out the ease with which illegal arms can be bought here (the Sunday market at Midi is a good bet). I think the mayor of Molenbeek gets it right at the end - we haven't been asking ourselves the right questions.

Here is the link re Weatherspoons:
www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/168402/jd-wetherspoon-shares-sink-as-boss-criticises-eu-brexit-stance

Great post scary and my sympathies.
Marinate that seems to be a result of vindictiveness rather that a natural brexit effect. Nice friends you keep are you trying to persuade us how great they are?

result of vindictiveness

How do you conclude that from the link?

His brexit stance hit eurozone suppliers..junckers calls for sure businesses not to negotiate with UK firms.. the boycott mentioned on this thread..
The rest is business rates, repairs and nlw
The only brexit effect is vindictive there .. no natural effect?
Wether are up and down over the decades plus they stopped doing roast dinners earlier this year..
Can you point to a 'natural' brexit effect?

I'm trying to understand why boycotting a business that supports brexit is a good idea? Tax avoidance, poor adherence to working directives (sports direct), unethical practices, I understand.

As a remoaner, I want this to be a success. I want to be proven wrong and find that we were better off out of Europe. Boycotting business because of their brexit stance is a bit of a foolish self-fulfilling prophecy, IMO.

As far as the terrorist links go, the only thing that has prevented another attack on the scale of Paris or Brussels is that our intelligence services have foiled the plots (10 in the past two years). Iirc, a Brit has just been placed in charge of the EU counter terrorism unit despite our brexit vote. Or have I missed the point?

As we know, a week is a long time in politics, 5 months (until a50 likely to be invoked) is an exceedingly long time. More and more of the Brexit effects will be being felt by then and I hope we may still remain in the EU.

Why shouldn't I be a little bit pleased that an idiot like Tim Martin has shot himself in the foot?

Y storm I would feel the same if our positions were changed
No way would I do down the country to prove myself right
From a brexiteer to a remainer, I hope you don't have too many sleepless nights and thanks for saying that, and if you've got a business I'll come and buy stuff from you!