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shurlock

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  1. Deep Water Port :lol: Terrible video btw.
  2. Nothing on Corbyn's attitude towards shoot-to-kill, I'm disappointed lads.
  3. Think you're on the wrong forum pal.
  4. Just need to look at these threads and all the suckers for a posh accent. Their deference and docility is outstanding. No wonder some think they can take liberties and treat them with contempt.
  5. That's a relief.
  6. Another fool played like a fiddle.
  7. He was talking specifically about supposed BBC bias, not media bias as a whole (and certainly not the print media). Try reading properly Les.
  8. Nick is Goa’s eunuch.
  9. The Committee would like a word with you.
  10. Les is out of control.
  11. If the NHS and drug prices aren't part of negotiations, then it will just mean reduced access for UK businesses to the US market, making it even less likely that any deal will compensate for the fall in UK-EU trade. The more UK takes off the table, the less attractive it is as a trade partner. Simple stuff really.
  12. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/11/26/big-issue-election-isnt-brexit-jeremy-corbyn/
  13. You mean like we did with Walcott etc? Whatever is printed in the press is yesterday’s news as far as agents and rival clubs are concerned pal. It’s a small world and information travels quickly. While rival clubs may not know the specifics of all our dealings, they’ll certainly know if we’re in the market or not.
  14. It’s very easy to list three faults with the party you’re voting for as a hypothetical, box-ticking, going-through-the-motions exercise (especially when you’ve asked the question). It doesn’t mean much, if any, weight is put on them in practice pal.
  15. And yet still short of the 100+ majority many were predicting for May in 2017. Remember when she was feted as a cross between the new Iron Lady ans Queen Boudicca who was going to dislodge Merkel as the most powerful woman in Europe? At this stage it’s a matter of damage limitation and ensuring that any majority can be overturned in one rather than two future elections.
  16. Was he briefed by his minders after his refusal to apologise on the QT special?
  17. Cake and eat it Westie? May's agreement with some lipstick on it might be your take pal but Johnson's deal differs in fundamental respects - the treatment of NI, its relationship with the rest of the UK and the implications for the future of the Union for starters. That even Johnson dismissed the outlines of his own deal -a de facto NI-only backstop or frontstop- only months before is itself justification for further scrutiny. As is the fact that the consent mechanism for NI that goes to the heart of the Good Friday Agreement was cobbled together at the last minute after his own 11th hour proposal was rejected by the EU. It would also help if Johnson actually understood what's in his deal -instead he's found himself contradicted by his own Brexit Secretary. Other major changes and uncertainties include what happens at the end of 2020 - under May's deal, the backstop customs union would have kicked in to prevent the worst form of cliff-edge. No such safety net exists with Johnson's WA. Huge swathes of text on environmental and workers rights have been moved from the legally binding part of the WA to the woolly aspirational political declaration. Finally the bill gives huge powers to ministers to make regulations to implement the UK’s withdrawal from the EU - again anyone with an interest in sound policymaking would urge caution, not haste. I could go on and point out how other EU pieces of legislation spent much longer in committee stage (as they were picked to pieces by Eurosceptics) or how the government could have enabled greater parliamentary scrutiny without extending the 31 October deadline if it was actually serious about it. But I'll leave it there. Suffice to say, you're talking drivel.
  18. To be fair, Clarkson thinks Brexiters are coffin-dodging idiots.
  19. I had a great dinner at Nandos, tucked behind the bright and shiny new cinema and casino on Sunderland High Street and the banks of the River Wear after an EFL cup tie a few years back. Think there was a Frankie and Benny's too. Some vision and would be a proper statement, if Goa was up to the challenge.
  20. Not sure what your point is westie. Yes the hardest part of the negotiations is yet to come; but the withdrawal agreement is still a monumental piece of legislation in its own right and so warranted more than three days scrutiny. The two statements are not mutually incompatible. You're trying to play gotcha but are not bright enough pal.
  21. He's full of s**t but he won't car crash in the same way John McDonnell probably wouldn't have car-crashed yesterday. Both are too flexible, on-message and emollient, however superficial, to allow themselves to be boxed into unnecessary and futile corners.
  22. Nice try Westie. I said it was one of the most important bills in peacetime history, not the most important bill in peacetime history. I reserve that accolade for the UK's future trading relationship with the EU (and whatever bill enshrines in UK law) - hence why I said it will be hardest, most energy-sapping part of negotiations. Understood pal?
  23. No wonder some of the lads on here are big fans. LD in particular.
  24. Remember when it comes to Jamie, he doesn’t read or follow the news - he only trawls social media echo-chambers. He’s probably referring to this: https://order-order.com/2019/11/27/plymouth-labour-officer-boasts-breaking-law/ #textbook
  25. How much do you get paid to fluff Guido pal? Does he pay you in alcohol and psychedelics? The allegations have not been proven yet but assuming they are, perhaps, worth explaining how they relate to the need for voter ID.
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