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    Headless Senior Member Pannonian's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slyspy
    Interestingly the overall situation in Northern Ireland has been improving nicely without the Assembly. The economy especially is improving, and with money comes peace. Makes you wonder whether they actually need an Assembly at all, especially one stuffed full of former terrorists and demagogues.
    They don't need the Assembly. We do. We want to wash our hands of them.

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    Speak for yourself.
    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
    Speak for yourself.
    You like having armed gangs running around Northern Island shooting each other and blowing up bits of the mainland occasionally?

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    You mean like Peckham on a saturday night?

    I was responding to Pannonians' post.
    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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    Headless Senior Member Pannonian's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache
    You mean like Peckham on a saturday night?

    I was responding to Pannonians' post.
    Most people I know would rather we didn't have responsibility for Northern Ireland. Mind you, this is London.

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    Most people I know would rather we didn't have responsibility for Northern Ireland. Mind you, this is London.
    Most people you know would probably rather you didn't have responsibilty for Peckham .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
    Most people you know would probably rather you didn't have responsibilty for Peckham .
    Home Rule for Peckham?

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