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50p thread >>>>>>>>>>>
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Let's not continue the shameful abuse of that thread. It was originally about, well, basically, treasure and has come to be abased with things like Gruffalo coins. This thread, by contrast, deserves everything it gets.
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Boxing Day is on a Thursday this year. Boxing Day election anyone ?
This is meant to be snarky, but considerin how things are goin !
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Whenever you’re ready to contribute, let me know, taking shots from the sidelines is too easy..
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It’s going to be published before Brexit.
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I presume it will be accompanied by the cap?
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I imagine we'll soon see articles featuring the opinions of graphologists about that handwriting ...
Ding! We have a winner: https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/24/boriss-handwriting-reveals-refusing-face-music-10976191/
Obviously just a few pages ahead of the astrology section (which is a slight bit more scientific than graphology).
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This interview is very good, from the funny to the frightening.
I lost most of my friends, including a couple of lifelong ones, because I realised they were racist, xenophobic and downright pig-ignorant.
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Then for the first march, in 2017, we brought over the Dusseldorf carnival float, designed by [German sculptor] Jacques Tilly, of a 12ft Theresa May head with a Brexit gun in her mouth. I drove it all around London and got pulled over by police in the Mall. I parked it outside the BBC while May was on The One Show. I drove it all over the UK until it eventually collapsed. The papier-mache wasn’t strong and stable.
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Originally, I bought an old black flocked top hat in a charity shop for £2. That was a mistake because it took £24 worth of spray cans to paint it blue. I put stickers on it saying “Stop Brexit”, but they kept falling off. At one event, it said “Top Brexit”! So now I wear a blue hat and use superglue to stick on a yellow hatband saying “Stop Brexit”. I’m onto my fourth hat now. One got sun-bleached during the heatwave and faded so quickly, it went purple and looked like a UKIP hat. I replaced that pretty fast.
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In May, before he became leader, Boris Johnson was trying to get through Carriage Gates on his bike and I suddenly clocked he was waiting next to me. I looked him in the eye and said: “History is going to treat you with the contempt you deserve.” He replied: “Go and take a running jump.” Even the copper on the gate was laughing.
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What’s been the scariest moment?
The day Tommy Robinson was sentenced, the far-right lot stormed down to the Commons. I saw them at the gates and suddenly [Tory MP] John Hayes, who’s an arch Brexiter, appeared next to me and said: “Look, I know we’re on opposite sides but you’d better get out of here because they’re baying for your blood.” I abandoned my stuff and ran to my car but they surrounded it: throwing themselves on to the bonnet, banging on the windows. That’s the only time I feared for my life. -
You should probably credit that
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Oooh, I never thought my favourite bits were your favourite bits, too. :)
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And just to emphasise again that Johnson's heavily-spun rubbish is worse than May's concoction:
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On the 50p coins, the ones already minted are, of course, becoming collectors' items:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/25/production-of-brexit-50p-coin-paused-amid-departure-uncertainty