Westminstenders: War and Weirdos

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With weirdos set to run No10 and Trump seemingly having started a new war in the Middle East, 2020 already looks set to be a cracking year.

To start off your year, it turns out that chinese curse about interesting times is actually a fallacy...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times

Happy New Year.

May we make 2030...

75,000 EU Nationals convicted of committing crimes in the UK. Not a very good advert for FoM.

howabout
Read the article.
Lots of them are dual nationals.
Just shows what lovely people Brits are .....

Sorry Howabout - that's a rather silly comment. People of all nationalities commit crimes. It is a poor reflection on this country's ability to keep track of people. If they did that they would have been able to chuck the criminals out, if the seriousness of the offence warranted it.

Lots of them are dual nationals.

Like our esteemed PM.

And the Chancellor, Home Sec and Foreign Sec are all children of immigrants.

And yes it is eerily quiet on the Brexit front. Calm before the storm.

The thread about Big Bens Bongs over in AIBU doesn't appear to have attracted many BeLeavers.

Prepared to see the breakup of the UK, but not to stump up 5p?

v belated pmk.
nothing good to say
just nostalgia for blackjacks and fruit salad penny chews

Prepared to see the breakup of the UK, but not to stump up 5p?

Wetherspoons should run some sort of event night across the UK as a fundraiser.

Growing up (in Harrow) there was a toyshop in Eastcote that had a model railway in the window that took and old penny (the one you needed two hands to hold as a child) via a cashbox in the window that would run the trains for a minute.

After people had used up all their old pennies, the shop would sell you one for 2 new pence ...

I find the difference between calls for metrication to be rolled back and the lack of calls for decimalisation to be rolled back indicative of Brexiteers lazy thinking. The arguments for one are surely the same for the other ? Or contrariwise the arguments against one are the same as the arguments against the other ?

just nostalgia for blackjacks and fruit salad penny chews

Your local pound shop could well be your friend

The problem with rolling back decimalisation is all those forrin coins:

Penny = Pfenning
Florins (from Florence)
Schilling
Guineas (blummin African!)

"75,000 EU Nationals convicted of committing crimes in the UK. Not a very good advert for FoM"

A rather daft post howabout - you do seem to have a bee in your bonnet about immigration

11 million people in the Uk have criminal records,
including an astonishing 30% of all men by the age of 30

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2002/apr/14/workandcareers.observercashsection

https://www.unlock.org.uk/policy-issues/key-facts/

75, 000 is about 1.8 percent of all EU nationals in the UK.

11 million is 16.9 percent of the UK population.

So less likely to commit crimes than UK nationals? great advert for FOM.

ContinuityError

ooooh, thanks, (dashes off to pound shop) :)

My thanks for those who have looked up stats about how criminally inclined we EU migrants are compared to native Brits!

Are any recent posts to do with Brexit? Lot's of mudslinging but does it amount to anything?

Really, genuine question, where do you all 'theoretically' go from here?

Just continuing to find faults with everything but the Brexit stuff is a bit pointless, specifically in regards to Brexit.

Is this thread just for venting one's spleen, or does it serve some other, yet to be defined, Brexit-related pupose?

What are you looking forward to from Brexit Hateisnotgood ?
What about it will make your life better ?
What will be the thing that shows it was worth it ?

Hate in terms of mudslinging it was howabout who implied that EU immigrants were more criminally inclined than British-born people. Pointing that out is not fault finding or venting, it's pointing out inconvenient facts.

As for where we go from here - we carry on disagreeing with Brexit until we see actual evidence of how good it is going to be for the UK and its people.

Bridgen is calling for Brexit Church Bells.

National Union of Bellringers (or whatever they're really called) is threatening to strike. No pun intended.

LQ - hmm, a few things; which have been mentioned and posted many times over the past few years by many posters over the past few years.

I understand that answering a question with a question is a 'technique', but given that it looks highly probable that the UK will be officially leaving the EU very soon, does it really matter that I itemize what I think will be the positives of this?

I asked what are you are going to do, if you don't know, that's a valid answer that I can respect.

pointy thank you for your response - which is clear.

Personally, hateisnotgood, I'm waiting for the brexiteerz to tell us which of the EU institutions/programmes they want to negotiate some engagement with - then we can discuss that and how to do it.

There was a brief discussion about wanting erasmus continuity earlier but that wasn't a brexiteer contribution - for all I know they may want nothing to do with erasmus, horizon etc.

hateisnotgood
I don't understand this:
the Brexit stuff is a bit pointless, specifically in regards to Brexit.

How can people post Brexit stuff that isn't related to Brexit?

Hateisnotgood
I and I think everybody on the thread accept that the UK will technically leave the EU at 11pm on the 31st of this month.

I remain utterly, utterly unconvinced that this will be a good thing
for any part of the UK economy
for the people who voted against it
or for the people who voted for it.

Until one of the posters who thinks its a good idea clarifies WHY they think it is a good idea
in Tangible, Measurable terms

I shall continue to campaign for the softest of possible trade deals at the end of the year
and a readmission later