Markwadsworth

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• Fun Online Polls: That Referendum Thingy & UKIP MEPs

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What's the most likely outcome of next week's referendum? Majority for Bremain - 21% Majority for... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2016 DEBATE

• Vote Early, Vote Often, Vote Leave1

  This'll be our last chance for another forty years to give them all a good kick up the arse. It is highly unlikely that we would actually leave the EU, even in... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2016 DEBATE

• More EU Musings

  Quote from an email from an old mate of mine that emigrated to Oz years ago. ""I guess for Australia the big positive for out is that we would be able to have... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2016 DEBATE

• Steve Hilton on Top Form

  From the BBC: David Cameron has urged people to think of the "hopes and dreams" of future generations in a direct appeal to them to vote to stay in the... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2016 DEBATE

• George Osborne Scales New Heights of Hypocrisy

  From the BBC: George Osborne echoed this message in his Peston on Sunday interview on ITV, saying: "There is no turning back. It is a one-way door to a much mor... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 DEBATE

• The Lies Are Coming Thick and Fast Now...

  David Cameron, in The Telegraph: So much is at stake on Thursday. And so rarely will we ever make a decision of such magnitude. And here’s the thing: it’s... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 DEBATE

• Personne Se Bouge! Ou...

  … or something or other. From the BBC: Mr Macron told Le Monde: "Leaving the EU would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the UK, which would then be a little countr... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 DEBATE

• Fascinating

  BMG #EUref polls:OnlineRemain: 45%Leave: 55%PhoneRemain: 53%Leave 47%Excluding Don't Knows. — Politico Daily (@Politico_Daily) June 17, 2016 So, shy Brexiters? Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or The Premature Babies Get It

  With 4 days to go, I think this is going to be the winner:- A father whose infant son was born 12 weeks early has made an emotional appeal for Britons to vote t... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 DEBATE

• Jo Cox

  I'd rather have left this alone. I wasn't going to join in with showing what a nice guy I am by doing an RIP. A woman with young children was murdered. That... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Fire Extinguishers & The Referendum

  The responses to last week-and-a-half's poll were as follows: What are fire extinguishers most commonly used for? Propping open a fire door - 88% Extinguishing... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 DEBATE

• Something Else i Don't Understand

  From Bloomberg: Kenya, the world’s biggest exporter of black tea, is considering introducing the world’s first futures contracts for the leaves to help stabiliz... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Global Economy Gets It!

  From the BBC: The Bank of England has warned that uncertainty about the EU referendum is the "largest immediate risk" facing global financial markets. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Tenants Get It!

  Emailed in by MBK from The New Statesman: The expectation at the Bank is that a Leave vote would trigger a sharp decline in the value of sterling and a period o... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Irish Farmers Get It!

  Emailed in by MBK from The Independent (the Irish one): On Thursday week we will know if Britain is going to stay or leave the European Union... No we won't. Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Logic, Maths and Metaphors Get It!

  From The Evening Standard: Jeremy Corbyn today claimed free healthcare could be scrapped if Britain leaves the European Union… “A vote to Leave is a vote to... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 DEBATE

• Just What is the EU For?

  Yes, yes I know I know. It is for, as in pro, ever greater union. But what is it actually 'for'? That is does anything it does have any any unique usefulness an... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 DEBATE

• Laffer Curve of Planning

  

  From Wiki "The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Border Gets It!

  From The Guardian, after some vacuous drivel from Gordon Brown which is not even worth taking the piss out of: Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, has said... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Our Security Gets It!

  From The Times During 38 years in British intelligence, I worked at the heart of the Cold War in Europe, including Moscow at the end of the Soviet Union. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 DEBATE