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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 8, 2019 21:36:23 GMT
We didn't have a debate though. We had one side saying it was a bad idea and the other screeching 'Project fear' at every opportunity whilst promising it would all be sunshine and unicorns if we left. & lets not forget circumstances changed over the past decade. The EU wasn't even a top ten issue in the 2010 election. The EU question had been settled, it was an opportunity for the Lib Dems to make some noise different from the LabCons. It took a massive global financial crisis and a huge anti-immigrant campaign run by Brexiteers for the EU to become a big issue. Who are you to determine how happy you are with the quality of the debate? The turnout was a record high. It was enough of a debate that Remain were happy with it on eve of poll. You suggest the EU question and been settled? That suggestion would appear to be delusional. It took massive global financial crisis you say. I say the EU was a factor in that crisis. The Euro was built on borrowing. You claim a huge anti immigration campaign. Indeed, it was EU wide. Turns out that open borders migration of the sort I favour is not universally popular. I'm also intrigued by this "huge anti-immigrant campaign run by Brexiteers for the EU to become a big issue". What to make of this well-known footage of a well-known Brexiteer running an anti-immigrant campaign. |
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Post by Merseymike on Apr 8, 2019 21:36:46 GMT
Do you still not grasp just how useless the remain campaign was? How they entirely failed to understand that it wasn't about throwing around lots of statistics and facts, and that people who voted leave largely did so because of how they felt, not what they thought? Let alone a message that boiled down to "Unhappy with the status quo? Vote for the status quo!" Don't remind me. I remember seeing Harman and Cameron schlepping along that supermarket aisle and thinking, hell, I'm voting Leave. I didn't, but if you were uncertain. it would have been the obvious thing to do |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 8, 2019 22:15:49 GMT
Wow, we're all now reduced to arguing about who started it. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it. |
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Post by Izzyeviel on Apr 9, 2019 10:23:32 GMT
We didn't have a debate though. We had one side saying it was a bad idea and the other screeching 'Project fear' at every opportunity whilst promising it would all be sunshine and unicorns if we left. & lets not forget circumstances changed over the past decade. The EU wasn't even a top ten issue in the 2010 election. The EU question had been settled, it was an opportunity for the Lib Dems to make some noise different from the LabCons. It took a massive global financial crisis and a huge anti-immigrant campaign run by Brexiteers for the EU to become a big issue. Who are you to determine how happy you are with the quality of the debate? The turnout was a record high. It was enough of a debate that Remain were happy with it on eve of poll. You suggest the EU question and been settled? That suggestion would appear to be delusional. It took massive global financial crisis you say. I say the EU was a factor in that crisis. The Euro was built on borrowing. You claim a huge anti immigration campaign. Indeed, it was EU wide. Turns out that open borders migration of the sort I favour is not universally popular. The BNP won seats in the Euros, but then lost them. There is limited appetite for racist shite, but the underlying concern is real and international. Far down the list of things I am narked about is that this EU nonsense has put back my wish for global free movement of labour back a generation. Considering most MP's don't understand how the EU works or what the implications of Brexit are going to be, it's safe to presume the quality of debate was dire. Doesn't matter what you think of the Euro, we're not in it. You choose to forget that UKIP were getting nowhere until they started using the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the BNP. For much of the past 40 years EU membership hasn't been a concern & yet we're led to believe an impulse decision made on the back of financial & refugee crises & by playing to people's fears about the NHS is perfectly sound & shouldn't be ever questioned. It's like making a decision when you're drunk & following through with it when you're sober. It's not going to end well. |
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Post by Izzyeviel on Apr 9, 2019 10:37:18 GMT
Do you still not grasp just how useless the remain campaign was? How they entirely failed to understand that it wasn't about throwing around lots of statistics and facts, and that people who voted leave largely did so because of how they felt, not what they thought? Well to be fair there was logic to it. Economic issues have tended to be the biggest factor in winning elections, whoever pushes the best message on the economy tends to win. What the Remain campaign failed to do was engage in the wider issues, and made no attempt to change tack. It reminds me of the polling for Obama's/Trumps tax cuts. You may be better off on paper, but if people don't notice the tax cut & don't feel better off its not going to help you at the ballot box. If you're being told by a campaign jobs will be lost if you vote a certain way, then some people will think its hysteria, some will be like 'I have a shit job anyway' or 'i'm retired I won't be affected'. etc. There was no attempt to explain why the EU exists and what its for, the good it does for the UK, how it helps the UK on the world stage, the impact the UK has had on EU development, etc'. Anyway, back to Newport. Has anyone actually been there? |
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Post by hedgehog on Apr 9, 2019 16:12:34 GMT
Do you still not grasp just how useless the remain campaign was? How they entirely failed to understand that it wasn't about throwing around lots of statistics and facts, and that people who voted leave largely did so because of how they felt, not what they thought? Well to be fair there was logic to it. Economic issues have tended to be the biggest factor in winning elections, whoever pushes the best message on the economy tends to win. What the Remain campaign failed to do was engage in the wider issues, and made no attempt to change tack. It reminds me of the polling for Obama's/Trumps tax cuts. You may be better off on paper, but if people don't notice the tax cut & don't feel better off its not going to help you at the ballot box. If you're being told by a campaign jobs will be lost if you vote a certain way, then some people will think its hysteria, some will be like 'I have a shit job anyway' or 'i'm retired I won't be affected'. etc. There was no attempt to explain why the EU exists and what its for, the good it does for the UK, how it helps the UK on the world stage, the impact the UK has had on EU development, etc'. Anyway, back to Newport. Has anyone actually been there? Back in the 90's I spent 2 days there, it was cold, wet and depressing. |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Apr 9, 2019 16:19:39 GMT
Anyway, back to Newport. Has anyone actually been there? I work there (on the edge not in the city centre). There’s a reason I live in the centre of Cardiff. |
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Post by boogieeck on Apr 9, 2019 17:24:12 GMT
Considering most MP's don't understand how the EU works or what the implications of Brexit are going to be, it's safe to presume the quality of debate was dire. Doesn't matter what you think of the Euro, we're not in it. You choose to forget that UKIP were getting nowhere until they started using the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the BNP. For much of the past 40 years EU membership hasn't been a concern & yet we're led to believe an impulse decision made on the back of financial & refugee crises & by playing to people's fears about the NHS is perfectly sound & shouldn't be ever questioned. It's like making a decision when you're drunk & following through with it when you're sober. It's not going to end well. in order Most MPs don't understand the EU. Bold assertion. Does lead me to wonder why we are members of an organisation, paying hefty fees for the right, if our MPs don't understand what it does. But Ok, there debate was dire, The people who needed to make the case for membership could not do it. The people who tried to make the case against it, despite being mostly idiots, appear to have managed to get their point across. The Euro matters a lot. The objective of the EU, frequently repeated, is ever closer union. To my mind, we either join wholeheartedly, or we leave and allow to the enthusiastic members to get on with their project. OK, lets assume that UKIP appealed to what you call racists. You are not the first Lib Dem to tell me this. I dispute that being opposed to large scale east european immigration is by definition racist, but lets for the sake of agreement assume that it is. Here's the thing. If the electorate want to vote for a racist policy, they are fully entitled to, thats how democracy works. If 52% of the Uk electorate are racist, then we demand a racist agenda from our government. Suck it up. Impulse decision? some of us have been waiting 40 years to get impulsive. We predicted the financial crisis, we noted the EUs idiotic response to the refugees crisis and predicted that it would aggravate it. People drowned in the Med because bleeding hearted middle class tossers encouraged them to set sail in dingies by offering them their dreams rather than sending them home in handcuffs. Global 24 hour news media and the mobile phone ensured that the next wave of migrants got the message, Risk your life, risk your kids life, it worth it. The NHS? Utterly dependent on English speaking cheap & skilled labour. Every Romanian Big Issue seller sent home is one more bed for an Indian nurse. So now we have asked for a divorce. You think we were drunk when we asked. I think we were sober. If I am correct, we should not beg forgiveness. If you are correct, we should not be offered it. |
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Post by john07 on Apr 10, 2019 15:47:21 GMT
Anyway, back to Newport. Has anyone actually been there? I work there (on the edge not in the city centre). There’s a reason I live in the centre of Cardiff. I have been to Newport a depressingly large number of times. Apart from a couple of trips to Cardiff (one in the 1960s), Newport is the only place in South Wales I have ever visited. I can see why anyone would choose to live in Cardiff. |
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Post by cibwr on Apr 16, 2019 17:27:31 GMT
The city has a fascinating history. Once the largest town in Wales, and under the Marcher lords the import duties were 10% of Bristol so flourished. The last place in the UK which tried an armed revolution, and its bus station will be bigger than Cardiff's :-)
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Apr 16, 2019 19:38:58 GMT
its bus station will be bigger than Cardiff's :-) Not hard at the moment! |
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Post by Tony Otim on Apr 16, 2019 19:41:24 GMT
The city has a fascinating history. Once the largest town in Wales, and under the Marcher lords the import duties were 10% of Bristol so flourished. The last place in the UK which tried an armed revolution, and its bus station will be bigger than Cardiff's :-) But will it be bigger than Preston's 😉 |
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Post by greenchristian on Apr 16, 2019 19:44:25 GMT
The city has a fascinating history. Once the largest town in Wales, and under the Marcher lords the import duties were 10% of Bristol so flourished. The last place in the UK which tried an armed revolution, and its bus station will be bigger than Cardiff's :-) But will it be bigger than Preston's 😉 Preston has a bus station?  Bet it's a bit rubbish.  |
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Chris from Brum
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Post by Chris from Brum on Apr 16, 2019 19:53:15 GMT
I think I was once told that due to Monmouthshire swapping between England and Wales pre-1974, that Newport RFC were formerly affiliated to the RFU rather than the WRU, with whom they had an associate membership. But this may be b0110x.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Apr 16, 2019 20:14:05 GMT
Only ever been to Newport Bus Station once, in the 1970s.
It was huge and bleak.
Its redeeming feature was the presence of buses from Jones of Aberbeeg, one of the very few National Bus Company operators using blue as a livery. (Most were red or green) Very attractive.
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Post by Sibboleth on Apr 16, 2019 21:37:07 GMT
I think I was once told that due to Monmouthshire swapping between England and Wales pre-1974, that Newport RFC were formerly affiliated to the RFU rather than the WRU, with whom they had an associate membership. But this may be b0110x. They were one of the founder members of the WRU. Pontypool (also in Monmouthshire o/c) was as well. |
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Post by froome on Apr 17, 2019 6:41:48 GMT
Only ever been to Newport Bus Station once, in the 1970s. It was huge and bleak. Its redeeming feature was the presence of buses from Jones of Aberbeeg, one of the very few National Bus Company operators using blue as a livery. (Most were red or green) Very attractive. During the 50s and early 60s almost every tiny community in every south Wales valley had its own bus company running services. And at that time Cardiff bus station was vast and linked well into the railway station. How times change. |
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Post by froome on Apr 17, 2019 6:47:04 GMT
As a town, Newport is very bleak, but having visited it a lot, it has its redeeming features. There are some lovely Victorian era buildings in its centre if one looks above the shopline, and the transporter bridge is certainly worth visiting.
I often find myself changing trains there and have nearly an hour to kill, so have often gone out to search for somewhere to eat. In that respect it is truly awful, but on my last visit this winter I actually found a lovely cafe run by a Syrian refugee very close to the old station entrance.
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Post by cibwr on Apr 21, 2019 15:36:45 GMT
its bus station will be bigger than Cardiff's :-) Not hard at the moment! True, but bigger than the one projected for Cardiff, which I understand is subject to further delays while they try to find a new site for the electricity station for central Cardiff..... have had Labour members on the council suggest we don't need one (bus station that is) .... |
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Bet it's a bit rubbish. 
