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In: Brexit  — view comment
Yes, most will suffer economically from leaving the EU, and the influx of immigrants will continue because there is a need for them in the market. The...
September 04, 2019 at 13:10
In: Brexit  — view comment
I agree that the Polish are being unfairly targeted. There is an issue with the numbers of EU citizens who have moved into areas like East Anglia. I h...
September 04, 2019 at 07:43
In: Brexit  — view comment
Yes, for example the way they legitimise Farage. If you want to get a deeper insight I would recommend James Obrian on LBC. 10.00 -1.00 weekdays. He's...
September 04, 2019 at 06:54
In: Brexit  — view comment
Great, I watched Johnson's statement, it was pathetic, very Trumpian. He's going down.
September 03, 2019 at 16:18
In: Brexit  — view comment
Yes, I know, but I'm in south Norfolk, in 2017 the Tory's got approx 35,000 votes, Labour 15,000 and the two other candidates less than 1,000. Most of...
September 03, 2019 at 16:08
In: Brexit  — view comment
Yes, Johnson wants to give the electorate a choice between a hard Brexit with the Tory's and a disastrous Corbyn government (economically) which will ...
September 03, 2019 at 06:58
In: Brexit  — view comment
I am in a safe Tory seat unfortunately and will vote for the remain alliance, which ever party represents this.
September 02, 2019 at 21:37
In: Brexit  — view comment
Agreed, Rebecca Long Bailey has just said that the position of the Labour Party is that stopping a no deal Brexit comes before any priority for a gene...
September 02, 2019 at 13:02
In: Brexit  — view comment
Remember Remember the 1st of November. It is putting party before country all the way, down. The problem is the hard brexiters within the Tory party s...
September 02, 2019 at 06:24
In: Brexit  — view comment
Sickening, they just lined up and said what their aids had decided the Tory base wants, while airing their dirty Landry in public. We saw Johnson's tr...
August 16, 2019 at 13:04
In: Brexit  — view comment
I think Jo Swindon is grand standing to get some media exposure. She claimed Corbyn had made it a precondition that he would be the caretaker PM befor...
August 16, 2019 at 07:03
Yes, Corbyn is a true socialist and a long way left of the current administration, or perhaps what might be desirable. However I think the state of th...
August 14, 2019 at 08:57
I would prefer Corbyn to Johnson, because we would have some welcome policies enacted. His lack of leadership as it comes across in the media is prefe...
August 13, 2019 at 07:31
The reason they elected Johnson was to save the Tory party. That is even more important than Brexit, although most Tory's think Brexit is essential to...
August 12, 2019 at 06:44
In: Brexit  — view comment
Yes, but this was always about what the British people want. The EU have repeatedly asked what we want and they will accommodate that, what ever it is...
August 10, 2019 at 21:38
In: Brexit  — view comment
I've thought of a new mantra, harking back to the gunpowder plot. Following which the population was taught to recite the saying "Remember Remember th...
August 10, 2019 at 21:33
In: Brexit  — view comment
I don't see May's deal as a compromise because the country is to polarised now. It is either total no deal exit, or revoke. Neither side would accept ...
August 10, 2019 at 21:26
In: Brexit  — view comment
I think Labour will have to campaign for remain in the general election, because otherwise a coalition of remain party's will decimate their vote. It ...
August 10, 2019 at 21:18
In: Brexit  — view comment
It would be interesting to know what the "more" is, I bet the EU negotiators would like to know that too. The trouble is if there is a no deal exit th...
August 10, 2019 at 21:06
In: Brexit  — view comment
I'd agree, from the commentary yesterday it looks like he won't get that far and parliament will seize power during September. So the no confidence vo...
August 10, 2019 at 07:01
In: Brexit  — view comment
There isn't a working government during an election campaign. Also the election hasn't been called as yet.
August 10, 2019 at 06:49
In: Brexit  — view comment
We have an interesting twist developing at the moment. At a meeting of representatives of the EU 27 yesterday, it was stated that there is currently n...
August 06, 2019 at 09:10
In: Brexit  — view comment
Sorry I missed this. In my recollection this was not mentioned at all during the campaign. And I agree with Michael, that the risk of the Good Friday ...
August 06, 2019 at 08:45
In: Brexit  — view comment
Thanks for your thoughts, its interesting to hear insight from someone outside the UK. I sympathise with your concerns. Where I differ in my analysis ...
August 02, 2019 at 06:57
In: Brexit  — view comment
A banana republic, lol
August 01, 2019 at 07:55
In: Brexit  — view comment
Well said. I have been surprised for years now how polarised the US electorate is. While I thought politics was more fluid in the UK. Now we are equal...
August 01, 2019 at 07:49
In: Brexit  — view comment
I was saying that those on either side who argue that it is the end of things if what they want does not happen are not helping the debate or the disc...
August 01, 2019 at 06:41
In: Brexit  — view comment
This was my opinion shortly after the referendum result ( although the leave narrative at that time was one in which we would have the "exact same ben...
August 01, 2019 at 06:17
In: Brexit  — view comment
I don't really understand what you're saying. The Hard Brexiters (our government), say that we have a great future, one in which we are set free of th...
August 01, 2019 at 05:55
In: Brexit  — view comment
I've just found out that you can download a podcast.
July 10, 2019 at 12:29
In: Brexit  — view comment
Sorry for the delay, I listen on DAB radio, so don't know how it works online. Essentially the majority of callers on that programme thought it quite ...
July 10, 2019 at 07:42
In: Brexit  — view comment
Yes, it is available online, or on Global Player app. Just google LBC UK. The pundit is James Obrian, 10.00-1.00 UK times Monday to Friday. He is a ph...
July 04, 2019 at 12:47
In: Brexit  — view comment
Hi there, I share your pain. I'm listening to a great radio pundit on a phone in radio show, who has been asking for sometime, for someone to ring in ...
July 04, 2019 at 11:19
In: Brexit  — view comment
"Britain will survive either way. That many on both sides couch it and so binary and end of Britain if the wrong choice is made isn't helping anybody....
July 04, 2019 at 10:32
In: Brexit  — view comment
Hi, I've been away for a while, what better way to get back into the forum than venting some Brexit frustration. "They"(the erg) are stuck in the 1960...
July 04, 2019 at 06:47
I understand and agree with what you're saying in respect of cities, although from my perspective, it is specific to the US. Here in the U.K. The situ...
January 26, 2018 at 07:23
In: Kundalini  — view comment
Quite, I use the analogy of tying the bull to the post in Zen Bhuddism,
December 05, 2017 at 12:23
In: Kundalini  — view comment
I know that feeling. Personally I like to value the mundane and the meek, with a big helping of humility. It makes it easy to avoid inflating the ego ...
December 04, 2017 at 10:02
In: Kundalini  — view comment
Are you practicing Yoga?
December 03, 2017 at 08:38
The process of personal transfiguration. Such a process may require an uncoupling from interpersonal intellectual understanding provided by other peop...
November 27, 2017 at 08:53
Perhaps the individual enquirer can achieve his/her own justification, for it to be accepted as knowledge, for themselves. When I referred to an inter...
November 26, 2017 at 08:24
Yes, fingers crossed on that one. I suspect we are going to see more and more outrage. Did you see Jeremy Corbyn's response to the budget on Wednesday...
November 24, 2017 at 12:12
You're a lot more vocal than usual. Somehow I doubt it will last.
November 22, 2017 at 22:15
I suggest you look in the mirror before reading books by the cover.
November 22, 2017 at 10:14
So as to access, knowledge, or knowing of nature, other than what is provided by current intellectual knowledge and teaching.
November 22, 2017 at 10:10
Have you noticed that throughout our history there is a cycle in which groups of people sieze power in some way and use this to accumulate and hoard w...
November 21, 2017 at 07:07
l thought you were just facing facts.
November 21, 2017 at 06:56
Sorry for the delay, I have been on the road the last few days. When I was young I looked into every philosophical system of thought I could find, ast...
November 20, 2017 at 07:32
I get it too, I already knew. The trickle down can so easily be syphoned off into tax havens when money becomes digital.
November 20, 2017 at 07:04
I will have to reply later, I've got things to do now.
November 12, 2017 at 07:42