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Old 23rd Nov 2017, 22:13
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Chris Scott
 
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Quotes from melmothtw:
"Sums up everything that is wrong with the Brexit mindset - the EU is not the Third Reich..."
The Fourth, perhaps?
"...and Europeans are not our enemy."
Quite, that would be the EU and its apparatchiks.

Quote from BEagle:
"One thing which Germany learned from the Third Reich era was that plebiscites are dangerously vulnerable to propaganda... [...] So it wouldn't have been possible to have held a plebiscite, such as Cameron's referendum, in Germany - because they are now illegal. While the mood of the people can influence, the constitution allows only the elected government to makes decisions on national policy."
The trouble with MPs is that they live in a parliamentary bubble and are "dangerously vulnerable", as you put it, to group-think.

To suggest that weary HMG ministers travelling on vital business of state should not be allowed to use military transport aircraft, where available, is outrageous. Reading the anti-British sentiments from several of the ex-RAF personnel on this thread begs the question of where their loyalties lay during their years in the service.

"I'll get my coat..."
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