Europe, Referendum & Brexit (formerly Europe..IN or OUT??)

(09-06-2016 20:35 )bigguy01 Wrote:  we don't get the chance to hold the eu to account like we do with the government and local mps at general elections every 5yrs. in that sense the eu is not democratic.

I guess you didn't bother voting in 2014 then.

Looks like you'll have to wait for the next Euro election in 2019.

The campaign gets more and more bizarre, today ex PMs Blair and Major give a speech together at a Northern Ireland school to pupils who are too young to vote or to know who either of them are.

^If it's bizarre you want, check out this week's Question Time on iPlayer...

didnt really watch it but saw eddie izzard looking like some grandma

(09-06-2016 22:54 )Tractor boy Wrote:  The campaign gets more and more bizarre, today ex PMs Blair and Major give a speech together at a Northern Ireland school to pupils who are too young to vote or to know who either of them are.

Wasnt at a school was at Ulster University campus in (LondonDerry/Derry) which is it by the way know depends on who you speak to.

(09-06-2016 22:54 )Tractor boy Wrote:  The campaign gets more and more bizarre, today ex PMs Blair and Major give a speech together at a Northern Ireland school to pupils who are too young to vote or to know who either of them are.

Tractor Boy one must assume the pupils are then either not stupid or the schools are teaching something resembling either history or political history its like saying no one under the age 30 would not know who Margaret Thatcher or Winston Churchill is?

Then we all wonder why much of the nation do not have the intellectual capacity to intelligently discuss this issue!

Seriously if they do not know who major and blair are then the NI teaching must be bloody suspect and they havent done anything on the troubles

(10-06-2016 03:51 )HannahsPet Wrote:  (LondonDerry/Derry) which is it by the way know depends on who you speak to.

Irish nationalists favour the name Derry but the unionists prefer Londonderry.

^in the old days it was a great way of sussing out 'which side of the house' someone was from, along with 'so, which scottish football team do you follow?'.

(10-06-2016 11:22 )terence Wrote:  ^in the old days it was a great way of sussing out 'which side of the house' someone was from, along with 'so, which scottish football team do you follow?'.

or if they liked orange or marching bands