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Whats wrong with that?? Better than waiting behind somebody with a friggin long list of 15 and then calling over to Barry to check if he still wants the nuts.

Farage will clean up at the EU elections and fail again at a GE. He can’t work with other people and will be exposed again when the questions turn to policy more complicated than ‘just leave

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That’s true for you and probably most white people. If you are black and had people make chimp noises or banana references to you you’d probably see it differently.

Tsk. I think you misinterpreted that joke and you have taken to social media to criticise me. I accept your apology

Not by Lighthouse!!

Catastrophic stupidity it is then

The point is exactly that he called a mixed race baby a chimp. Whether its more appropriate to coruscate him for 1970s racism or catastrophic stupidity is irrelevant.

Aah cool. Maybe if you could give us a breakdown of the definitions of the following words and which groups should or shouldnt be offended we can then just skip to the end. Racism Xenophobia Prejudice Sectarianism Bigotry

Shall we do the racism versus vanilla prejudice debate now?

If there was something obviously funny in the photo that people ignored and you had to contort your thinking to see it as racist, you'd be right. But there isn't, so you aren't.

Exactly - its so self evident its amazing it still needs to be said. Without moderate party workers and - perhaps more importantly - swing voters like me, any party ceases to be a credible electoral force and becomes just a pressure group

I went there in 2000 when the civil war was on. You'd never have known it as didnt see or hear about any trouble and everyone was so pleased I was there (because tourism had been hammered obviously). Before this I was actually thinking about taking my kids next summer. I wouldn't risk them, but as single guy given the chances of being caught up in anything are are about the same as winning the lottery, sure why not?

Go, its an amazing place. Cant think of any other destination with so much to see in one relatively small area. Did you stop going to London when terrorists were mowing down tourists?

Jeez that makes Carry On films look like high art.

Yeah but then Greece would be debt free and his other collapse prediction would evaporate. Choices choices. Poor GM. .

Of course there are differences by income, education, age and location. Sometimes they intersect and sometimes they don't. We all know people who voted differently than the 'typical' way. Whereabouts do you live as a matter of interest?

https://www.ukgeographics.co.uk/blog/social-grade-a-b-c1-c2-d-e

Read the breakdown of the Brexit polls. The groups where leave voters have a majority are over 50 (especially over 65) and the social groups C2DE. Remain has a majority in the under 50s and social classes ABC1.

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What you say is generally true - but I'm not sure it applies to the EU in the same way as is does for right / left politics. Most people vote in their own self interest, which is why Labour gets more support from poorer people and the Tories from the wealthier. Brexit is different in that its primarily a divide between those who dont see benefits from the EU and those who do. Remain is primarily the young, professional or better educated - those who recognise globalisation and / or whose families want to work abroad / travel regularly / want to retire there. Leave is primarily C2DE and older people who remember 'glorious' Britains independent past.

Her belief in that flawed philosophy is exactly why she couldn't get agreement after 2.5 years. Cross party consensus was the only approach which was going to work for a minority government with a second rate leader

There is something really odd about May. Just as her deal was repeatedly rejected but she kept brnging it back, so her request to the EU for an extension to the end of June has been repeatedly rejected but here she is asking for the same thing again Someone should introduce her to the concept of plan B.

It doesn't and you don't. Thats just sensational journalism taking one months figures and trying to create a story. London has had a spike in knife crime but the murder rate is well below New York's and most European capitals. New York had a record low of 289 murders last year but London had only 132 with similar population. London had only the 9th highest murder rate in the UK in 2017 - Glasgow is usually highest in UK and Manchester is first in England but rural Lincolnshire was second in 2017. London has a murder rate of around 1.6 per 100,000 people. Amsterdam, Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest are all worse. Place like Malmo (3.4) and Zurich 3.4 and the Baltic capitals are far worse