Markwadsworth

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• Fun Online Polls: Project Fear & Fire Extinguishers

  The responses to last fortnight's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What are the likely outcomes of Brexit? Putin ISIS expand their empires - 9 votes A new... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2016 DEBATE

• Remain Bollocks #173

  From the Guardian Cultural and academic connections are not simply a matter of Britain’s being able to attract the best grants for research or for the arts. The... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2016 DEBATE

• Beyond Satire.

  Exhibit One: Tony Blair has said it would be a “very dangerous experiment” if Jeremy Corbyn or a populist politician like him were to form a government. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2016 DEBATE

• Here We Go...

  

  Donald Trump has has finally go to the madness of money printing to pay off the National Debt. That's it. We're doomed. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 DEBATE

• Peter Lilley Debunks "free Trade Deals"

  Emailed in by MBK, from The Telegraph, Peter Lilley on top form as usual: Trade and the Single Market are key referendum issues yet I am the only MP with... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move… Or I'll Cut Your Pension and Deport Your Carer!

  Emailed in by MBK from The Sun, David Cameron plumbs new depths of silliness: DAVID Cameron tonight warned the elderly a Brexit would wreck their pensions and... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Your Holdays Get It!

  From BBC Reality Check: Claim: Leaving the EU would make an average holiday for four people to the EU £230 more expensive in two years. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (397)

  Here's the second half of the drivel I looked at yesterday, from the FT comments: We did a small study to discover how many owners would have to sell up in a... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Poorest Countries Get It!

  Emailed in by MBK, from The Sun: Fuelling the Tory civil war, Mr Osborne also mounted a direct attack on leading Tory Brexiters by claiming they think an... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2016 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (396)

  BenJamin' did a bit of goading at the FT, and earned this hysterical response: I take it you are happy to ghettoise the income rich from the income poor, to... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 DEBATE

• I Am Sorry, but There's No Polite Way to Put This, But...

  ...they are lying again. Headline and Article. Heir to Blair indeed. I do not have time to fisk the whole nonsense, so let's consider what would happen to the... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 DEBATE

• Culture and the EU

  From the BBC Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Benedict Cumberbatch are among stars who have signed a letter saying Brexit would "damage" the creative industry. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 DEBATE

• Raging Bull Water Buffalo

  From The Daily Express: AN ESCAPED water buffalo was shot dead yesterday after roaming through a village and seriously injuring a man. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2016 DEBATE

• Raging Bull

  Emailed in by Robert Hale, from Worcester News: A HEROIC paramedic armed with only a welly managed to pacify a raging bull attempting to trample an injured... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2016 DEBATE

• Just You Carry on Saying That Jean Claude, Just Say It Again. I Dare You. I...

  Here Listen son. Since 1914 we have three times spent blood and treasure saving 'Europe' from itself. Just why do we need to do that again? Eh? Just tell me why? Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2016 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (395)

  Emailed in by Sackerson, a load of self-pitying drivel (repeated here): In my recent entry Dear Homeowner: If You're Paying $260,000 in Property Taxes Over 20... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2016 DEBATE

• Andy Haldane Maybe the First Honest Bank of England Employee...

  ...for admitting that he has absolutely no clue as to what he is doing. FWIW pensions are a dead simple concept. They are just deferred income. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 DEBATE

• "The Angry Birds"

  From imdb and imdb: The classic horror film takes place on Bird Island, an untouched paradise inhabited by computer-generated birds who are naive and innocent... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 DEBATE

• "Clintons Cards Axed Virgin Mary from Nativity Scene After Fears of Poor Card...

  From The Guardian: Shane Black, Christmas card designer, has said he was forced to change the gender of Jesus' mother from female to male after pressure from... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2016 DEBATE

• BBC Recipes

  From the BBC The BBC Food website carrying more than 11,000 recipes is to close as part of a plan to cut £15m from the corporation's online budget, a BBC... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 DEBATE