Brexit

[noel]

I stand by everyone's rights to be offensive and offended. This is in the "down the pub" section, so in my view we all should be allowed to spout whatever ill-informed crap we like within normal legal boundaries. We can all then tell them that.

Back to Brexit. Did anyone hear the wireless this morning? Geoffrey Cox came on and said a few things regarding legal advice to the government. He was then followed by another Conservative (I forget who) who proceeded to say that that was all rubbish and Teresa May can completely ignore parliament.

[Graham Breeze]

Oh Dear.

I never joined the CCF at my school and so I have no experience of military discipline, although I believe some posters have served in the armed forces, but it seems to me that if I were being paid by the state to learn to shoot straight and kill people I might be allowed a little slack - presumably a picture of, say, Osama Bin Laden would have been more acceptable?

Over many years I have formed a view of posters, not least through meeting them at, would-you-believe-it? fell races - and people are what they are and entitled to hold the beliefs they hold.

However the benefit of meeting people in the flesh is that you know their real name and may also know what they do for a living and that provides context for what they may say on here. That is not to say that a ditch-digger cannot have a valid view on macro-economics but well...I put great store on people's socio-economic and occupational backgrounds in underpinning their view of the world. So I don't think Forum posters should be anonymous.

I also suspect that the intensity of people logging on is higher when there is a frisson of debate and that nobody logs onto a dull forum - the right shoes for the PPP race anyone? - so people should not get over-excited when views are expressed that they don't like very much. They can be ignored.

Of the newer posters I find the views of Oracle quite interesting. I think he/she is closer to Cassandra than the Oracle at Delphi who was gnomic whereas our Oracle verges on the hysterical and I note that as time has gone on the ability to use spellcheck appears to have been lost; but I do read what Oracle has to say.

Anyway the Forum is a broad church and hopefully will survive the current withdrawal of one of its longest contributors. I say "current" because we have been here before.

And tomorrow is another day and the Three Peaks Race is nearly here!

[Witton Park]

So I don't think Forum posters should be anonymous.

You should cut and paste this in to the "Today's Joke" thread.

[Graham Breeze]

You should cut and paste this in to the "Today's Joke" thread.

Ah well, my modesty is only exceeded by my fine sense of irony.

[Llani Boy]

[QUOTE=Graham Breeze;648550]Oh Dear.

I never joined the CCF at my school and so I have no experience of military discipline, although I believe some posters have served in the armed forces, but it seems to me that if I were being paid by the state to learn to shoot straight and kill people I might be allowed a little slack - presumably a picture of, say, Osama Bin Laden would have been more acceptable?

Is that because he was a muslim, black or just male? Careful GB or you will be put in the same "extreme right wing thug" and "nut job" categories as me!

[noel]

Is that because he was a muslim, black or just male? Careful GB or you will be put in the same "extreme right wing thug" and "nut job" categories as me!

Well if you say these things LB, some people will judge you by them.

I agree it would help if we had actually met one another on this thread (apart from Oracle of course ). That way we could see that at least on the face of it we're all reasonably normal people.

[Oracle]

Well if you say these things LB, some people will judge you by them.

I agree it would help if we had actually met one another on this thread (apart from Oracle of course ). That way we could see that at least on the face of it we're all reasonably normal people.

We are fell runners, so not normal reasonable people.

Brexit reminds me of a day long ago I was driving down the A1 observing a couple in a car ahead who were clearly in disagreement about whether to leave it at a slip road, and from gesticulation it was getting heated.
Instead of making the choice,either left onto the slip road, or right to stay, eventually the car hit the nose of the crash barrier dividing the two possibilities, with a big dent in the bumper. I last saw the two of them in even more heated argument.

Like choosing a river bank brexit is a choice, an average position will not do. Most of our commons want to remain, but do not want the blame for revoking article 50, that they all hope the "other side" will do which they can attack whilst being secretly glad.. They all regard the EU deal as bad, so none want to accept it, and they know that single market and customs union are a different form of remain..So they know the only valid options are no deal or stay. So they make no choice at all,wanting to blame the others for the lack of progress.

In short they are all chicken.

[Wheeze]

EU blinks first!!

[Oracle]

EU blinks first!!

I think they have just cottoned on: parliament is too stupid to be intimidated or act rationally.

[Wheeze]

https://www.facebook.com/56627974049...0898793029245/

Says it all......