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So, our Honourable friends the Brexiteers ...

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jura2 Wed 14-Nov-18 13:34:59

Are you happy now?

kittylester Thu 15-Nov-18 07:05:04

I wish I'd know there were so many mushrooms in here. I only got one with my breakfast yesterday.

janeainsworth Thu 15-Nov-18 01:50:31

chewbacca grin

Chewbacca Thu 15-Nov-18 01:18:14

I've only just stumbled across this thread and was assuming, judging from the passive aggressive title of the OP, that it would be yet another diatribe on the woes, perils and pitfalls of Brexit. But I'm delighted to find that's it's a mad house! grin I think you've all been very solicitous in distracting the OP from the very subject that has caused her so much anxiety in the past and, as she said on an earlier thread, she has been advised by her medic not get too involved, so well done everyone! smile

Jalima.... no more nom nom noms please. hmm

POGS Thu 15-Nov-18 00:05:18

PS

The State Aid position is probably the only reason I would vote Remain again because if Labour ever got into power I don't see how they could fulfill their promises to renationalise.

POGS Thu 15-Nov-18 00:01:55

Grandad

" It may well be that Labour remainers in Parliment will consider this proposal/deal is the best that they are likely to get, as against no deal crash out as the alternative.

Well, I am hoping that's what happens anyway (he says looking to the heavens)."
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You sound as though you are thinking the agreement is the best bet on the table.

As a poster who believes in Corbyn/McDonnel economics and renationalisation the alternative of Remaining in the EU which is being mooted by " some ' in Labour such as Thornberry and Starmer would be a disaster for Labour surely given the State Aid Regulations. Hence Corbyn has flip flopped but nobody takes him seriously.

Jalima1108 Wed 14-Nov-18 23:10:27

every word is weird if you look at it for long enough.

Including weird

Try it!

oldbatty Wed 14-Nov-18 22:32:21

vassal is a weird word

MawBroon Wed 14-Nov-18 22:16:41

???

PamelaJ1 Wed 14-Nov-18 22:15:42

? - feeling better already. Thanks

Day6 Wed 14-Nov-18 22:04:30

Most Brexiteers on here will agree with anything Theresa May says

Utter tosh CrystalTipps.

IF May has acquiesced to Brussels, (IF) it will be the end of her career and the Conservative party will suffer in future elections.

Jeremy Corbyn would have signed us over to Brussels from day one if he'd been negotiating so the UK has been sold down the river (maybe) whichever way you look at it.

Do we want to be a vassal state of the EU? We had no say or clout when Cameron was in charge. If TM has sold out Brussels has us by the short and curlies forever more.

MawBroon Wed 14-Nov-18 21:58:58

? ? ? coming up!

Luckygirl Wed 14-Nov-18 21:57:54

I am always concerned about the labels: most people are neither "Brexiteers" nor "Remainers". They are just ordinary people who were faced with a choice based on polarised electioneering and we were not given the facts in an objective manner.

I have always made it clear that I think the referendum itself was entirely wrong in its conception and operation.

There are of course zealots on either side of the argument; but I think they are very much in the minority.

PamelaJ1 Wed 14-Nov-18 21:47:28

You see Maw, I don’t know ??‍♀️ what I’m writing now!
Send mushrooms ASAP.

Anniebach Wed 14-Nov-18 21:27:39

The Irish PM has paid tribute to Mrs M

MawBroon Wed 14-Nov-18 21:26:26

Do you not mean “thread quite a few posts ago” confused

PamelaJ1 Wed 14-Nov-18 21:25:13

I wish I had a magic mushroom. I stopped understanding this postquite a few threads ago?

MawBroon Wed 14-Nov-18 21:25:05

Just had a look at the BBC News website and I read
leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg described it as a "rotten deal

Well that’s a good start to me!

European Parliament Brexit lead Guy Verhofstadt said the agreement "will make a Brexit possible, while maintaining a close relationship between the EU and UK, a protection of citizens' rights and the avoidance of a hard Irish border

Sounding promising too.

Anniebach Wed 14-Nov-18 21:08:32

Off topic but in the seventies a very elderly lady who owned an island in Scotland but came to live here to be near her son, we use to provide taxies for her, one of our mechanics came back from a booking and said she was going odd, she got more and more strange, i drove out to see her and on her kitchen table was a rather large dish of mushrooms, yep a lady nearly 90 on magic mushrooms , she said she loved picking them and thought them delicious!

lemongrove Wed 14-Nov-18 21:08:15

Yes, I agree with you.

Grandad1943 Wed 14-Nov-18 21:01:52

lemongrove, I think TM will need the support of a considerable number of Labour MPs to get this through the House of Commons. However, that may well be forthcoming no matter what the party leadership and whips instruct.

It may well be that Labour remainers in Parliment will consider this proposal/deal is the best that they are likely to get, as against no deal crash out as the alternative.

Well, I am hoping that's what happens anyway (he says looking to the heavens).

lemongrove Wed 14-Nov-18 20:56:10

Yes Maw but only if you say it with the appropriate Japanese accent.

MawBroon Wed 14-Nov-18 20:53:36

Can you say shit if you are talking about Shitake mushrooms?

Jalima1108 Wed 14-Nov-18 20:52:38

Anniebach not a proper field mushroom, a supermarket mushroom, kept in the dark and fed on manure (I know you don't like swearing so I won't say shit).

Jalima1108 Wed 14-Nov-18 20:51:43

garlic butter please

(or is that too French?)

Anniebach Wed 14-Nov-18 20:51:20

Jalima ?, I think a rather confused mushroom . Aw I use to love picking mushrooms