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As has been said countless times, the majority of people in the UK did NOT vote to leave!

Looks like this lunacy is heading for a brick wall! "Brexit: 'Key issues remain' after Raab and Barnier talks" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45857258

The reason that the US was able to deliver the bombs was because Japanese air power was pretty much none existent so yes, if Japan had a bomb of its own the US would still have dropped them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

At least half of the people on this thread complaining about the wedding are actually right wing, and some 'power hungry egotistical person acting as President' can always be voted out of office. The queen can't.

Owlerton dog track is private property. Cross Turner Street to the south of the station is a public highway.

Me too, and I never thought I'd ever think that I'd say that. For all Corbyn's progressive ideas, a bankrupt Britain outside the EU is going to hit working class people a lot harder than a relatively prosperous but very unequal Britain under Tory rule within the EU. If anyone is in any doubt about that, check out the interviews with Corbyn, McDonnell or Tom Watson from the TUC and Labour conferences where they were asked what better deal Labour could get with the EU, that May and Raab couldn't get. All three of them were embarrassingly unconvincing in their answers.

Really? Are you sure that you have that right and they were not right wing do-gooders? No one claiming to be 'left wing' would ever put someone's religious views over a woman's reproductive rights!

I doubt he would do anything. The Skripal poisonings and the interference in the Brexit referendum provoked very little active response so I suspect in Russian nuclear planning, the US and China are top of the list and the UK's 'independent' deterrent is just classed as part of the US nuclear arsenal for strategic purposes.

Not only have I been on the TPS for years but I don't give anyone my home or mobile numbers unless I have a good reason to, and that includes gas, electricity and water as these numbers can be sold on. Also many of these calls are made by random number generators who neither know nor care whether you are on the TPS. And some of these calls are from companies or agencies that the previous holder of my phone number had contact with who claim to be exempt from the TPS if you called them first, even if that was 15 years ago!

Can anyone name a supermarket that isn't multicultural?

I have always been conflicted about this. While I agree with you that everyone has the right to earn a crust, it has to be balanced against the rights of others to just get on with their life without being harassed. I'm not so bothered by the kind of sales people this thread is discussing as they are fairly easy to avoid or ignore but telesales people are becoming a real nuisance, especially when they target people during the evening when you just want to relax, have your dinner and watch some crap on the telly without having to constantly answer the phone and fend off calls about PPI, changing your energy supplier or claiming for accidents that you haven't had.

That is exactly the point. It's not really about the money which as many people have pointed out, is not much in the whole scheme of things, but about self respect and dignity as a nation. The British class system is not simply an economic structure but one of attitude and where one sees oneself in our society. While we continue to 'know our place' and bow, scrape and doff our hats at a dysfunctional family we will never grow as a nation.

The argument is not as simple as that. Trump has appointed and attempted to appoint hundreds of people to political positions since his inauguration with little or no public comment. Trump has publicly said that he doesn't have a problem with sexual assaults on women. He publicly endorses Roy Moore in Senate elections after many allegations of underage sexual assault were made against him. Then he nominates a judge for the Supreme Court who happens to have a number of allegations of sexual offending against him. So right from the start, he is seen as 'Trump's kind of guy', and when 'very compelling' testimony (Trump's own words) is given against him as well as further allegations against him and his close friend, who is accused of organising 'rape parties' in his youth, there is a very strong ring of truth about the accusations. Are you really saying that any Trump nomination for the Supreme Court would face the same allegations?

What a bizarre post lol

Apart from a very small number of judgements, usually involving very rich people, all civil court judgements are in the public domain as are all criminal court judgements.

Cracking takeaways!

How are you having to contribute to policing football matches?

I'm not sure you need to see a solicitor. The purpose of the small claims court is to give people access to the law at minimal expense. Your case is a strong one and you should obtain a judgement in your favour, but as has been pointed out above, obtaining the judgement and obtaining the money are two different things. If you do get a judgement in your favour and they still refuse to pay up, then at least you can then go public about him and his business as long as you stick to matters already considered by the court. If he doesn't pay I would definitely make a complaint to the DVSA about the firm who are providing his MOTs.

No doubt helped by the government commissioned reports that said that not only would those areas be hit first by Brexit, but also hit hardest. No wonder May and Co. tried to hide those reports from the public and parliament. Not wanting to put anyone down, but if you live in an economically deprived area, you don't vote for something which will weaken the economy. If you do, you will be first to take the hit.

A brief lesson in statistics. With a population of 35 million (those who voted in the referendum) and a sample size of 5,500 you will never get a 100% margin of confidence (i.e. your result perfectly reflects the population).To do that you would need to poll everyone. So every poll that isn't taken of everyone in the population, you have a margin of error and that margin of error is directly related to what is called a 'confidence level'. The higher the confidence level, the greater the margin of error. The lower the confidence level, the lower the margin of error. There are statistical tables which relate these values for all the different variables in a survey. If we want a 95% confidence level i.e. that our survey of 5000 from a population of 35 million almost, but not quite reflects the population, then the margin of error for that confidence level is about +/-2 %. So if a properly conducted poll of 5,445 people from a population* of 35 million shows that 67% of Labour supporters voted remain, we can be 95% confident that no less than 65% and no more than 69% voted remain. Both are a large majority. So yes, you may call it guesswork but it is very accurate guesswork and even with the greatest margin of error applied to reduce the number, that still makes it 65% of Labour supporters who voted remain. Does that make sense? (*population in this example does not mean population of the UK but statistical population)

And an even worse way to stave off a threat from the right of your party.

I don't think Alex Ferguson has ever worn a hat except for a day at the races.

Does anyone seriously believe these people give a toss about what anyone thinks?

It could, but maybe not in the way you think lol

Worse than that, the police do! Because the threshold for prosecution has become so high, the police themselves are now filing cases without the CPS ever seeing them, as they assume that they won't be taken any further.