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So the likes of Ken Clarke and Anna Sourbry might be upset.  Big deal.

25 Apr 2017

When did we last have a united country?  Probably not since the end of the last war.

25 Apr 2017

I actually don't care if any deal upsets the Remainers.  If the vote had gone the other way last June they would have shut down any further discussion on our part in the EU, and we would have been left with the scraps that Mrs Merkel had offered Cameron.

25 Apr 2017

There are lots of people who don't have a driving licence, so that argument falls flat.  In a democracy, voting should be a choice not a compulsion.

If there is compulsory voting then there has to be a  "none of the above" option, but what if that receives the most votes?

French Election
24 Apr 2017

You are assuming that all those who voted Labour in 2015 will do so again this time around.  In the meantime Corbyn has decimated Labour's standing in the polls, Bradshaw's success is far from assured.

24 Apr 2017

Bradshaw is on dodgy ground.  Now that Brexit is happening the UKIP supporters could turn back to the Tories, which makes his majority pretty thin.  I think he will be lucky to hold onto the seat in the current climate, with Labour being at rock bottom, just as the LibDems are.

24 Apr 2017

With that Retweet it sounds like Bradshaw could be nervous about retaining Exeter at the election.

General Election
22 Apr 2017

I know nothing more about UKIP than you would.

22 Apr 2017

@Lynne Why are you directing a question about UKIP policy at me? Hard and soft Brexit seems to mean different things to different people, but the most common definition of soft Brexit appears to be retaining freedom of movement, staying in the single market & continuing to pay fees to Brussels, and being bound by the ECJ.  If we do all that then we haven't really left the EU at all, and the ...