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I'm quite happy with Britain being shit, great looks a far inferior option

My grandfather died in a concentration camp (Bennard Manning)

Scot Dutchy wrote:The last throes of a dead party.

Last throes of a dead country more like

laklak wrote:That's partly why I still smoke it. I'm the antithesis of cool, I am the Uber Uncool, I'm so utterly, absolutely, unrepentantly uncool that I'm actually cool.

I don't follow fashion, I set it.

If I was to ever be shot by a stoned gun nut I would want it to be Laklak

Dope became less cool when the US started legalising it

Bankers tend to have STEM degrees, its unfortunately where our best science graduates tend to go due to the pay

In an alternative reality (a better one) London could have been the capital of Europe

Sorry, but those saying leave voters are all racists are really missing the point and a bit tone deaf. I voted remain (and believed in it very strongly) but I know several intelligent and thoughtful people who voted leave and their reasons have NOTHING to do with immigration. Do you really live in ...

I know right? The remain side are all angelic little snowflakes for whom the notion of lying is an offence to their humanity. What nonsense. The five stages of grief: anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance. You're currently at denial. You'll get through it eventually. Who is in denial? Y...

That might well be the biggest pile of horse shit I've ever read on here. Have you spoken to any 'out' voters? Spoken to a few, they normally start going on about Muslims. I generally don't have anything to do with them any more unless I'm paid to do so (including some of the wife's family). I simp...

Nations and anything important should be run by elites (ie the clever and experienced) but with some democratic accountability, ie representative democracy. Referendums are an insane way to run anything. It's one thing to give the people a choice between reasonable intelligent people as a leader (mo...

So can the government local or central block spending each year?, the BBC has its charter reviewed every so often but in between those times the government direct influence is limited

Talking about in Germany, in the UK the BBC is about the only thing of any real value here

The German system until two years ago was like the BBC system. A household had to pay a fee if it had any device where you could receive television or radio. (Smaller fee if you could only receive radio). This has now been replaced with a system where every household has to pay a fixed fee. Indepen...

Absolutely. Ditch the licence, raise whatever tax seems sensible to replace the amount currently generated, and don't worry about detecting anyone... That is what we did back in the 70's. The licence is just another form of tax. It is a tax but its not at tax that goes directly to the government , ...