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    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

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    There is no comparison between the UK economy and the Norwegian economy; the Norwegian workforce is less than 3 million compared to over 30 million for the UK. The economic activities which earn money for the two nations are starkly different (the public sector in Norway is so large it would no doubt be called Stalinism by many of the Free Market Everything Brexiteers) so whatever was said by whom to whom is irrelevant to the British debate, even if everything this woman from a small agrarian party is true and that the warnings about damage to the Norwegian economy were so greatly exaggerated, it doesn't follow that similar warnings can be ignored vis-à-vis the UK. Because a boy cried wolf doesn't mean it's safe to ignore the bear behind you.
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    t doesn't follow that similar warnings can be ignored vis-à-vis the UK. Because a boy cried wolf doesn't mean it's safe to ignore the bear behind you.
    Not to mention WWIII, likkle dicky birds dying in droves, vote leave and your pension gets it! etc....etc......etc.....etc

    Oh and whatever you do don't mention Turkey.

    Damn and blast I just did!
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

    "The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."

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    I can't believe the propaganda from either side (including yours, sorry). How am I supposed to vote in a sensible fashion?
    "Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"

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    Vote for the side who arent threatening to make thier doom and gloom predictions worse if they lose.
    Being better than the worst does not inherently make you good. But being better than the rest lets you brag.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
    Vote for the side who arent threatening to make thier doom and gloom predictions worse if they lose.
    So that's don't vote at all then...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elmetiacos View Post
    So that's don't vote at all then...
    I was unaware the french government were on the brexit side.

    http://www.politico.eu/article/franc...david-cameron/

    My wording was specific "threatening to make it worse" for all its faults the brexit campaign isnt openly planning on committing economic retaliation if they lose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slyspy View Post
    I can't believe the propaganda from either side (including yours, sorry). How am I supposed to vote in a sensible fashion?
    Forget all the arguments about trade, immigration and all the rest.

    Do you want the ability to remove the politicians who make the laws?

    If you do, then you should vote to leave.
    In a nutshell.
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

    "The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."

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    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
    Not to mention WWIII, likkle dicky birds dying in droves, vote leave and your pension gets it! etc....etc......etc.....etc

    Oh and whatever you do don't mention Turkey.

    Damn and blast I just did!
    I'm just pointing out that people on either side are wasting their time talking about Norway, whether it's, "We don't want to leave and end up like Norway" or, "We can leave and be just fine, Norway hasn't ever been in the EU" because Britain and Norway are completely different countries which may have similar political traditions but don't resemble each other economically in any way shape or form. As for Turkey, it's moving further and further from ever being in by virtue of Erdoğan turning it into an Islamist dictatorship.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elmetiacos View Post
    I'm just pointing out that people on either side are wasting their time talking about Norway, whether it's, "We don't want to leave and end up like Norway" or, "We can leave and be just fine, Norway hasn't ever been in the EU" because Britain and Norway are completely different countries which may have similar political traditions but don't resemble each other economically in any way shape or form. As for Turkey, it's moving further and further from ever being in by virtue of Erdoğan turning it into an Islamist dictatorship.
    Your a fool to not think Erdogan has leverage over EU he's got Merkel by the balls. Got that satirist in court. On a whim he could expel thousands of migrants into Europe. He's even refused to take in any migrants back if turks don't get visa free travel. It's a bad deal we give him 6 billion which used to be 3 billion by the way for every migrant we don't want he sends us another. Next year it will be 10 billion this man has got EU by the balls. I could go on but I think I might be talking to a brick wall so I'll stop but heres a poem

    IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
    To call upon a neighbour and to say: –
    "We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
    Unless you pay us cash to go away."

    And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
    And the people who ask it explain
    That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
    And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

    It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
    To puff and look important and to say: –
    "Though we know we should defeat you,
    we have not the time to meet you.
    We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

    And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
    But we've proved it again and again,
    That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
    You never get rid of the Dane.

    It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
    For fear they should succumb and go astray;
    So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
    You will find it better policy to say: --

    "We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
    No matter how trifling the cost;
    For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
    And the nation that plays it is lost!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lizardo View Post
    Your a fool to not think Erdogan has leverage over EU he's got Merkel by the balls.
    This is the problem when ill-educated people spout cliches to describe a situation without thinking through what they're saying. The "Your" instead of "You're" is also painful, but the metaphor at the end is particularly badly used. Unless Lizardo knows something the rest of the world doesn't.

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    Ah, Juncker again, a brexit will be the end of western-civilisation. Mom there is a scary newspaper under my bed

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lizardo View Post
    Your a fool to not think Erdogan has leverage over EU he's got Merkel by the balls.
    Project fear! Project fear! The scaremongers are trying to scare us with scary scares! Don't be scared of all the scariness! Oh and by the way run for your lives, the Turks are coming! We'll all be murdered in our beds!
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    Only anecdotal but rather revealing.
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

    "The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."

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