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Boris is out.
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*** TORQEN *** Deal Alert - JUNE MEGA SALE!
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All PMs replied and orders dealt with. Last day on these deals folks! -
Cough, cough.
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A little trip to France and some little motorcars
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Wings!!! Look nice on the car!
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Me too.
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I didn't place any bets, stopped playing a while ago Short on DOW and S&P would have been awesome
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HaydnH, long gold, short GBP = GTR
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Another different vision over Brexit: Brexit changes nothing for the elite and their capital, but ordinary Brits will have no place left to turn Thanks to an ever-growing number of international agreements, the taxes and tariffs that once slowed international trade are disappearing, making it easier to import, export, and do business across state lines. Increasingly, we do business in a borderless world. Wealthy people don’t just do business in a borderless world–they live in it. They have their own version of free trade agreements. They can and do buy their way into virtually any country they like. There’s even a market for passports and residence permits that help wealthy types to move between countries. It’s not cheap to join the global elite, but it is relatively easy. That’s why the vote against the EU is so heartbreaking. It was the closest thing ordinary people had to the kind of border-hopping freedoms the ruling classes have long paid dearly for. More here: http://qz.com/719232/those-who-voted-for-brexit-hoped-to-return-to-a-world-that-no-longer-exists/
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Wife is calling her after 9am, still early. Apparently she sold her house after we left and moved in a flat, if is the same lady. I just hope is not her, as she's good as gold! Either way, such situations I hope they are throughly investigated and dealt with by Police!
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What in the world is happening My next door neighbour on LBC: https://audioboom.com/boos/4757039-german-immigrant-s-heartbreaking-call-to-james-in-full We moved from there last year in December, but a very nice quiet area. Then this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/polish-girl-dagmara-prybysz-who-complained-of-classroom-racism-is-found-dead-at-school-in-cornwall-a7037771.html and this: http://www.itv.com/news/2016-06-28/halal-butchers-targeted-in-petrol-bomb-attack/ Another Romanian lady friend married with an English guy had their bakery and farm set on fire, next night they had their car vandalised, all glass broken. Not trying to exaggerate or being alarmist, but what is this country becoming? Other videos on Channel 4, too: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153850480776939&id=6622931938 https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153853027841939&id=6622931938
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*** TORQEN *** 350z Whiteline droplinks - £179 delivered
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In stock! -
Another kit delivered to Patrick - PPod - today
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STARTER KIT - now available, details on out website, for both 370z and 350z.
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*** TORQEN *** 350z DE TORQEN Engine bay Titanium hardware kit
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*** TORQEN *** 350z & 370z TORQEN undertrays
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New batch arriving towards the end of the week! 350z out of stock, 370z - 3 in stock. -
*** TORQEN *** Deal Alert - JUNE MEGA SALE!
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Last few days left on these deals! Many prices will go up soon in accordance with GBP/USD FX rate, too. -
*** TORQEN *** 370z Tanabe Medallion Touring COMPLETE SYSTEM
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Just over 1 month left on this deal! -
A different view on "lost, just get on with it, stop moaning": "There is something I need to say. it will be a long post. Some of my friends might be offended, that is not my intention. But I need to say this. Please read it, even if you don't read my other EU posts. Since the referendum result, it has been a much repeated statement that those of us still talking about the referendum should just shut up. Some people are polite and blindly optimistic, saying 'let's focus on what unites us, let's work together'. Other people are offensive, calling Remain voters bad losers, or worse. I need to tell you why I cannot - will not - be silenced on this. Why working together seems so difficult today. A common thread seems to be 'we're all allowed an opinion, let us have our opinion and stop arguing about it, accept that some people don't agree with you and those people won.' Yes, you are allowed an opinion. You can form an opinion about whatever in the world you want to and I fully respect your right to that. You can have an opinion that the sky is purple with yellow spots if you want. However, if I asked you to bet your livelihood and future, and that of all the people around you, on whether your opinion of the sky is right, I would at least expect you to look up to check your facts are right. When you found the sky was, in fact, blue, I would expect you to respond accordingly. Sometimes there is a right answer and a wrong answer. Sometimes we cannot agree to disagree, however nice the sentiment is. Too many people have voiced the sentiment - 'I have a right to an opinion even though I don't really understand the EU or politics, so just leave me alone and stop challenging me.' You had a right to that opinion. But before you cast a vote, you had the responsibility to back that opinion up with fact. To at least start to understand what you were voting on. There was an awful lot of information out there during the debate. If you voted without really understanding the facts then I have every right to challenge you and I won't stop just because it makes you uncomfortable. This is far, far too important. All those people Googling what the EU means on the 24th June, or telling us all how they didn't really understand, just had a 'feeling' which way to vote should all be ashamed. I will also address the idea that we don't like having 'lost'. I could not care less, this isn't a tennis match and I never saw it as 'winning or losing'. I saw it as fighting for the future, for hope, for diversity and tolerance. I saw it as making a decision that wasn't inward-looking and selfish, as being part of the modern world. 75% of the younger people of this country also had this vision for the future. I don't feel that I have lost a game. I feel that our whole country has been betrayed, destroyed (in the sense that the UK will disintegrate) and lost any respect in the eyes of the world. We have all lost the benefits of EU citizenship, even those of us who wanted to keep it. We have voted to be left on our little rock, all alone. All the values of 'Britishness' I identified with have been undermined. I do not feel any common ground with the vocal parts of the Leave campaign. Not because they 'won' and we 'lost' but because I simply do not have that mindset and I find most of what they have said to be offensive. The whole world has 'lost' after this referendum. I do not want to tar all Leave voters with the same brush. I respect that there were individual people who made decisions based on thoughtful points of view. In my next words, I'm not saying all Leave voters are the same. Nor are all Remain voters automatically good people. However. I campaigned on the streets, I read article after article, I engaged in endless social media conversations. I know the tone of this debate. And the Leave side employed anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric. Many Leave voters voted because they wanted to restrict freedom of movement. I know because they told me, often aggressively. And, today, I've heard from migrant and British ethnic minority friends that they feel threatened and unwelcome in this country. They are worried to leave the house. They have seen that half of the country are willing to ally themselves with a racist and anti-immigrant campaign, even if they do not feel that way themselves. That is not a situation in which we can just keep quiet and find a way to work together. I don't think all leave voters are racists but I fear that the racists now feel legitimacy, that they think half the country agrees with them. I have already heard this expressed on social media. 'The majority have spoken, that's democracy', I've been told. But is it? Have they? The Scots don't think so, for a start. Do we have a country in which an angry majority can trample over the rights and wishes of a minority? That's a little scary. This referendum campaign was full of lies (yes, on both sides, but more of them on the Leave side, as the media is finally acknowledging) and many, many people voted with no knowledge of what they were voting on. For so many, if it wasn't about immigration, it was a protest vote against the Conservatives or against politics and politicians in general. The majority haven't actually spoken about the EU, they've expressed anger on all kinds of issues. None of this seems like a good basis for a decision that will throw us into recession and isolation, that will strip our young people of the right to live, work and study abroad, will affect every aspect of our lives. It was an irresponsible referendum because it had no regulations relating to what level of turnout or majority would give it legitimacy. I have resisted signing the petition for a new referendum so far because I want to be seen to be respecting the democratic decision. But I am beginning to see it as far from democratic or representative. And with so many of the Leave voters now saying they would change their vote if they could, what would the result of a referendum today actually be? Maybe we should find out before we think about triggering Article 50 and actually leaving the EU. Can we really let this decision stand after such a shabby campaign and with a small majority result? This is why I am proud of the Lib Dem stance to challenge the referendum and fight to stay in the EU at the next General Election. There is an awful lot more I could say. But I will end with this. I am shocked, frightened and horrified by this. By the divisions in the country and by the outcome of the referendum. I feel alienated from a country I have always been proud of, in a liberal non-nationalistic sense. I have friends who feel even worse because they're migrants or minorities. Virtually the entire population of the world thinks we've lost our minds. We've become an inspiration for the French far right, for the Texas Tea Party movement and congratulated by Donald Trump. American and European friends are writing to me to express sympathy and disbelief that we could do this. I need to talk about this personally because I am mourning and talking helps. Don't you dare tell me to shut up if your vote is part of the reason I feel this way today. Block me if you don't care, but don't silence me. If you are not talking about this, you do not understand how important this is. You have underestimated the impact. Not just on the economy or trade or freedom of movement. But on society, ideology, the heart and soul of this nation. On the whole world. If you are not still talking about this, you are irresponsible, in my eyes. This conversation is one of the most important in the nation's history. It will define who we are for generations to come. But hey, you have your opinion don't you? And it sound lovely to say we should all just get along. Sounds like you're rising above it all. This will affect you too. And then you might be glad that some of us are talking about what it means. I am the 48% #WeAreThe48" Rebecca S Buck
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"English could be banned as an official language of the EU after Brexit despite being the most spoken in Europe, an official has admitted. Although it is the main working tongue of European Union institutions, it might be dropped when Britain leaves the bloc - further reducing the UK's influence on the continent. Each member state has the right to nominate a primary language in Brussels, but no state other than Britain has registered English." http://tgr.ph/x6bURh I don't want to imagine the treatment we'll get abroad in EU, when on holiday, after leaving EU, for not being able to speak the local language and addressing in English like use to do Time to learn Spanish, French, Italian etc