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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Possibly Corbyn, but that's about it.Mrs (Dis)May will avoid holding any meaningful vote until the last possible moment regardless of what she says both in public or in the House. She has a virtually...
  2. Re: If I have a temple giving +1 to weapons and a blacksmith giving +1 to weapons do those stack?

    Humpty Dumpty (Through The Looking Glass - Look it up).No I'm not saying that. The bonuses don't stack. If you have a unit at +1 weapons and it trains in a city where the temple gives +2 weapons then...
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    Re: Deteriorating Situation in Venezuela

    There's some additional detail in the below link which fills in some of the detail @Vanoi mentioned.BTW, I couldn't agree more. I had to look twice when I saw the inflation...
  4. Re: If I have a temple giving +1 to weapons and a blacksmith giving +1 to weapons do those stack?

    Not totally correct. If your faction conquers a settlement with a temple and / or forge which give the higher bonuses then you can get gold weapons and armour.
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Thanks @Dante for the summary. Really good. On a personal level I don't like Yvette Cooper for what her influence has done to my local hospital. However, during the last 6 months or so she has shown...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Sure it is, but It's not currently possible to answer this question. As above, if Scotland leaves the UK then it leaves the EU at the same time if Brexit has happened, and isn't in if it has...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Don't often agree with your political opinions but I do with this oneBoth sides were as bad as each other. Still waiting for emergency budget promised for Friday 24 June 2016. Glad I didn't hold my...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/01/14/brexit-vote-theresa-mays-deal-possible-outcomes-means-no-deal/It appears that MPs believe they have finally found the so-called killer amendment....
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    So 10 Downing Street is still in total denial of reality. It appears that Hunt could be obliquely positioning himself as a future leader as he has a grasp of common sense and a bit of plain speaking....
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    Re: The catchphrase game

    The still is from Witness. Looks like the child who witnesses the murder. It's my all time favourite film.
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    I think we may be starting to go off-topic but what the hell. I'll leave that up to the moderators (or Mongrel, it's his thread after all). As I understand it no Parliament is bound by its...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    There's nothing procedurally incorrect about what happened. When MPs feel the Govt. isn't listening (and it isn't) then they use all legal methods available. It's not an improper amendment, in and of...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    First Lord of the Treasury is the historic title. Dates back to Sir Robert Walpole. The last holder to converse with the Monarch entirely in Latin I believe. (RW spoke no German and GR didn't speak...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    I read this last night but was too tired to post it, so here we go today.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46593750 As the ear trumpet I've ordered for Mrs May does not seem to be helping, it...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    So, Corbyn finally makes a move, albeit not the one most wanted, and tables a vote of no confidence in the PM , not the Govt.

    I wish the wording had been "Quo usque tandem abutiere, Theresa,...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    It's been a serious weakness of Mrs May. Not 100% certain if it is herself or the immediate circle which she appointed. Also, I'm amazed that Tony Blair still seems unable to grasp his current...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Thanks. Did not know that, but like I said it's been a long time since I looked at this. Makes sense to hobble the monarch if you've hobbled the Commons. I agree. EU has played a blinder whilst UK...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Wow. That's a scary situation which you have posited. HM has not dismissed a Prime Minister since Gough Whitlam, Australia, on 11 November 1975 and this kicked off a constitutional crisis down under....
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    I thought Mrs May was rumoured (I can't believe some disloyal 'Casca' disn't record this) to have said she would not lead the party into the GE in 2022. If the DUP pull the rug, there will be 21 days...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Only because I was pithy (for Sun readers) whereas you provided proper analysis (for Times readers). Lol.
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    200 to 117.

    Oh dear.

    The deafness will go on.
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    I don't really have any expectations of who will or won't agree with me. Everyone's entitled to an opinion. I don't have a revised opinion of Major, I still despise him. I just happen to think that...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    To a disinterested observer, this must all be fascinating and/or bewildering. The sheer incompetence and downright dishonesty of Mrs May during the last 2½ish years has been eye-opening, even to a...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    It appears many backbenchers are displeased. Christopher Hope has tweeted.It appears we may have another leadership election. On the 1922 Committee. Utterly ridiculous. It's an old saying in...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    @Dante. I think you're spot on. The way Mrs May has sidelined not only Parliament but her own cabinet is utterly unforgivable. I also think you're correct about pushing this to the wire to avoid...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    On reflection you're probably correct.Perhaps I should've put it that Cicero would be in his element. Currently watching PM's statement. I must admit I agree with the tweeted comments that the...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    I have to say that if your MA is of the same high quality as your above post then it'll certainly be accepted. I see all the major players are up...
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    Re: The catchphrase game

    Hand over, erm something. Jeez I'm stuck.
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    Don't know how you make such a leap. I certainly have neither said nor implied as much.

    You made the claim that "her rich jihadi sponsors wouldn't like that". All I did was present you with the...
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    Do you have access to information that the rest of us don't?

    I've had a look at the Electoral Commission's donation register, link below, and can't find any sizeable donations listed to the...
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Utterly appalled that the Govt has been found guilty of contempt by the House.

    How on earth this can happen when there was a binding vote 3 weeks ago on publishing all the legal advice I have no...
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    Re: The Uprising of the Middle Class

    French politics certainly is robust.Voters may be turning away from mainstream parties as there seems to be a rise in single issue politics (thanks to social media) and the non-mainstream parties...
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    Re: The catchphrase game

    Hmm.Picture 1 looks like your avatar, or a deformed rabbit (Thanks to Phoebe's guitar chords in Friends) handing keys to a silhouetted hand, whereas picture 2 is a derelict building in a rundown...
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    Re: The catchphrase game

    Key to the door?
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    Re: Brexit - Time to scrap it and start again?

    Until the ECJ rules on this then the UK cannot unilaterally revoke Article 50. Should the ECJ rule that Article 50 can be revoked then the fun will really start in the Commons. Revocation can only be...
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    Re: Huddersfield grooming gang jailed for 221 years

    No. I think you are wrong here. Leftist PC culture did not keep it taboo. Leftist PC culture, particularly in Kirklees (Liversedge, where I live, is a part), is fundamentally misogynistic and, as...
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    I read about that. You're correct, but is that a photograph from a previous year. AFAIK Elizabeth Tower is covered in scaffolding with only 1 clock face showing. I can see 2 and no scaffolding. ...
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    Re: The catchphrase game

    It was a quiz show, but local to where I live it used to refer disparagingly to DFS as that's how long their sale had been going on. It's generally used pejoratively to describe a big discount sale...
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    Re: The catchphrase game

    Well it seems you have it. Once you believe Muiz has suffered enough, please do the honours. Lol.
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    Re: The catchphrase game

    @Muizer.
    Didn't know it was Sam James, just a picture of a player from that particular team. 2nd part is correct.

    @Aexodus
    Yes it was, but I changed it as it was a model boat and that...
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