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Lynne

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I think, at the moment, and in this context, when the word 'Europe' is used everyone knows what is meant. I can give you examples of prominent Brexiteers who use the term 'Europe' as shorthand for the 'European Union'.

18 Mar 2017

If you were amongst the 48.1% who voted to remain in the EU and would like to stop being written out of history by the Brexiteers, then take a look at the info on this link as this might be one way of doing it. https://devonforeurope.com/unite-for-europe/

An eggsellent one. "Humpty Dumpty (the UK) sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty (the UK) had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put humpty (the UK) together again"

17 Mar 2017

So the question is.........which of the two will end up with (scotch) egg on their face? From one of today's national papers. "If May’s Scottish gamble comes off – which would mean Scots vote to stay in the UK and to accept the Brexit terms, while delivering a possibly mortal wound to the SNP in the process – the Tories will be beside themselves with delight. If it fails, May will have ...

Timeline of changes to women’s State Pension Age (SPA) 1995 : The 1995 Pensions Act brought in a gradual rise to equalise women’s SPA with men’s at age 65 by 2020, beginning with women born after 6 April 1950. The DWP failed to notify women individually. A 14 year gap and then......... 2009 : The DWP began a programme of writing to women individually, by age group, to inform them ...

@Paul i think that idea might get scotched.

16 Mar 2017

By drinking lots of scotch whisky? And perhaps the party goers should invite some scots bagpipe players?

Here's the link to the thread I was posting on back in Feb 2011 about this very same issue. https://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/17333

15 Mar 2017

I’ve posted before about the issues concerning the raising of the state pension age and 1950s born women https://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/45135 Last Wednesday there was a demo in London about all of this. The police estimation was that 5,000 attended and I know that those demonstrating came from all over the country. There is a report about it all on page 2 of the latest edition (15th ...

Fix Fest
12 Mar 2017

Yesterday's fixfest was well attended with over 40 fixes provided by highly skilled volunteer fixers. The organisers hope to do something similar again in the autumn.