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It is an attempt at humour but remember that little matter of troops being on standby?
Those of a certain age may remember General Sir Walter Walker and his Civil Assistance organisation. https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ls/r/C11265477 You can't read the document but you only need to look at personalities to realise it was not Civil Defence.
Things have moved on and 'those of a certain age ' are too stiff of joint today but maybe someone in Westminster remembers.
Those of a certain age may remember General Sir Walter Walker and his Civil Assistance organisation. https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ls/r/C11265477 You can't read the document but you only need to look at personalities to realise it was not Civil Defence.
Things have moved on and 'those of a certain age ' are too stiff of joint today but maybe someone in Westminster remembers.
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Originally Posted by Una Due Tfc
Funny how hardline Brexiteers can remember WWII so well and yet The Troubles have completely escaped their recollection.
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Somebody on the other thread was saying that the anti Brexit petition was strongest around Cambridge. This was meant as a criticism. That would be the Cambridge of Hawking, Newton, Darwin, Turing, Watson, Crick, Keynes and Rutherford.
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Originally Posted by Bob Viking
Said like a true indoctrinee.
Please give the ‘all Brexiteers are stupid’ line a rest. Just because it says so in the Guardian it doesn’t make it true.
BV
Please give the ‘all Brexiteers are stupid’ line a rest. Just because it says so in the Guardian it doesn’t make it true.
BV
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Originally Posted by Effluent Man
Somebody on the other thread was saying that the anti Brexit petition was strongest around Cambridge. This was meant as a criticism. That would be the Cambridge of Hawking, Newton, Darwin, Turing, Watson, Crick, Keynes and Rutherford.
And Newton went to school in the same town as that ardent Europhil Margaret Thatcher.
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Originally Posted by Parapunter
Well said Bob. Patent nonsense that all Brexiteers are stupid. It's the other way round - all stupid people are Brexiteers.
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Originally Posted by Bob Viking
Please give the ‘all Brexiteers are stupid’ line a rest. Just because it says so in the Guardian it doesn’t make it true.
Absolutely - it's the 99% who give the rest a bad name...
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Originally Posted by Exrigger
In the interest of fairness there are some pretty stupid remainers as well, the 'brexiteers' do not have the monopoly of that trait, as you well know
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Originally Posted by PDR1
Well quite, but the Brexiters have an overwhelming majority to the point where they probably have a working monopoly.
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Originally Posted by PDR1
DUH! If that were true then the referendum result would have been 75-25 in favour of Remain...
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