OT: Last Night of the Proms

[Nick Odell]

Canada doesn't require one to revoke other citizenships. He was a Romanian

Nick

[Ian Jackson]

In message [e-mail]>, Rod Speed [e-mail] writes

But do you know (of) anyone who has got what they thought they were voting for?

[Actually, if some of James o'Brien's Brexiteer in-phoners were to believed, they voted to leave in the sure and certain knowledge that they could well be worse off - and a few said they wouldn't really care if they lost their job.]

[Pomegranate Bastard]

Keep your rabid opinions to yourself and sling your hook. Bloody wog.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Seems the flags etc were dished out by musicians protesting that Brexit had made things very difficult for them - as regards working in the EU.

So yet another big earner for the UK messed up by Brexit. The list goes on and on.

Oddly, it was all sweetness and light that Brexiteers promised us. But then they all seem to be as stupid as Doom.

[Tim Streater]

I got what I was voting for, namely not to be a part of a failed bureaucratic political experiment.

[Jeff Layman]

It seems it was a crowdfunding affair. See

. "The flags were very visible on the TV and got reported by the media not just in the UK but other European counties (sic) as well."

It was so well supported that they have made, so far, £1651 from 84 supporters. That's taken only 6 weeks! If that's a sign of success, I wonder what would be considered a failure. Still they're planning to do the same at the 2022 proms, it appears.

[Spike]

That emerged in the Sunderland Factor, it isn't 'news' at all!

[Spike]

AOL/WHS/+1

[Andrew]

And Texas still thinks it is a 'sovereign country' :-)

[Andrew]

People under a certain age were excluded from voting. That was wrong when people over 85 were allowed to vote (and mostly did vote).

It would have been fairer if the parents or guardians of every child under the voting age was given one extra proxy vote per child and allowed to vote for them. This could have benefited either side.

[Andrew]

A Scottish 'yes' result would be soon followed by a similar demand from Shetland to be independent. They are closer (geographically and culturally) to Scandinavia than the Picts. The also have most of the oil.

[Andrew]

Few of them actually from London of course, just concentrated there.

[Andrew]

???. All the flags of a similar nationality were identical.

I saw a few wearing EU 'headgear' but that's it.

[Andrew]

Yes but if she had lost, the BBC would let us all know what her background was.

[Dave Plowman (News]

And to take back control? Where now, apparently, our borders are open to any old EU import, but theirs closed to ours.

Sounds to me like we've given control to the EU. Instead of being at least partially in control before.

[JNugent]

It was more than a few.

[JNugent]

What *are* you talking about?

How about persons claiming to be pregnant?

And if such a person claims to be having quintuplets...?

[Ian Jackson]

In message [e-mail]>, "Dave Plowman (News)" [e-mail]> writes

When it was announced that, for the moment, we were still not going to start checking EU imports, I heard one commentator say that the UK's official reason was because many EU exporters hadn't prepared themselves for doing the additional paperwork required for what is, for many, a minority market. Another comment was essentially that, for some exporters, it was probably too much bother, and if the UK insisted on it they might simply stop exporting to the UK.

[charles]

and I have a friend who used to export small items to the EU. He's lost that trade because of the paperwork involved.

[Ian Jackson]

In message [e-mail]>, charles [e-mail]> writes

I've constantly been saying that it's the small traders who are going to be worst hit by Brexit (and about whom we may hear little), while the 'big boys' will have all the resources required to deal with the additional bureaucracy, and (if we're lucky) about whom we're going to hear triumphant reports of vast expansions.