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So the Queen did back Brexit? |
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Liar Kuenssberg nicknamed Tory Kuensssberg and her BS "sources" again.
BBC's very own Kay Burley. Weren't we told at the time that "the source" was Michael Gove? |
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Kay Birley works for Sky.
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He means Laura is the BBC equivalent to Sky's Kay
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Looks like some people got this for Christmas
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Anything that makes a claim for an unnamed "source" should be ringing alarm bells in your head. We don't know which way the Queen thinks about the referendum and anything beyond that is pure speculation at best.
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This report means nothing. It's very possible that this source is the same person who fed Gove the story that he then gave to the Sun. .
Only reason it came up at all today was she was being asked for her moment of the year before her mastermind round - and the obvious ones had already been taken by other contestants - so she quoted hearing that story for the first time |
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And that was kind of the point Laura was making this morning. She had a single source tell her, she couldn't find a second source - so dropped the story as unreliable.
Only reason it came up at all today was she was being asked for her moment of the year before her mastermind round - and the obvious ones had already been taken by other contestants - so she quoted hearing that story for the first time |
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And the Queen of course is in no position to contradict her as she is not supposed to have a position on Brexit.
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Given her age and her strong support of the Commonwealth I would suggest it is statistically likely she wasn't too disappointed at the result on 23 June.
I thought the ones that said anything at all were encouraging remain. |
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She backs Brexit but Hard Brexit.
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She backs Brexit but Hard Brexit.
That's kinda the point of her. |
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How many Commonwealth countries were urging us to vote Leave?
I thought the ones that said anything at all were encouraging remain. I for one would much rather we had freedom of movement with Canada, Singapore and Australia than Slovakia and Lithuania! |
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How many over 65s backed remain? Us being in the EU has diminished our historic ties with the Commonwealth.
I for one would much rather we had freedom of movement with Canada, Singapore and Australia than Slovakia and Lithuania! |
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Yep up there with the real greats like Sir Jimmy Saville.
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Given her age and her strong support of the Commonwealth I would suggest it is statistically likely she wasn't too disappointed at the result on 23 June.
But the great thing is we don't know and never will. Maybr her son needs to take some lessons in how a monarch should behave - totally above politics so everyone can unite behind the head of state. Unlike the average Brexshitter, she actually lived through WW2 and potentially sees the point of having a united Europe. She also wants what's best for the country. Brexit is fundamentally incompatible with that. |
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Unlike the average Brexshitter, she actually lived through WW2 and potentially sees the point of having a united Europe.
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But the great thing is we don't know and never will. Maybr her son needs to take some lessons in how a monarch should behave - totally above politics so everyone can unite behind the head of state.
We, the electorate, should unite behind the head of state, yet we should be kept in ignorance of the views of that head of state, is that what you are saying? I believe you voted in favour of leaving the European Union, and are somewhat jubilant that your 'side' marginally won the poll; an argument put to the electorate by that side was that 'we' should regain our 'sovereignty' and 'make our own laws' again. Now you seem to want to give unaccountable power to a despot. |
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You are a stain on humanity with a comment like this, beneath contempt.
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Unlike the average Brexshitter, she has actually travelled the world and experienced how things are in other countries and in other cultures.
Unlike the average Brexshitter, she actually lived through WW2 and potentially sees the point of having a united Europe. She also wants what's best for the country. Brexit is fundamentally incompatible with that. |
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You are a stain on humanity with a comment like this, beneath contempt.
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I'd be sceptical enough about the idea of the Queen being a Europhobe who wanted the UK out of the EU. It's well known she is a fluent French speaker and is well versed in the culture of Europe. I could buy a curmudgeon like Philip favouring Brexit but I would have thought the Queen less likely. Interesting too that her son Charles denounced the rise of populism and the far right in a speech this week.
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I'd be rather sceptical of the idea that the Queen is a Brexiter. She has been to nearly every country in Europe, on numerous occasions too and is a fluent French speaker. She doesn't exactly fit the bill of an angry OAP in some northern English town who has never been anywhere outside Britain but the Costa del Sol.
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I'm surprised as the House of Windsor are German in origin so would've thought the Queen would be in favour of the EU. She also supposedly speaks fluent French, and is apparently the Duke of Normandy in a throwback to the claim of English monarchs from William the Conqueror for the Channel Islands being in the British crown.
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Good for her.
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I hate to mention it but you are aware that Europe is not the same as the EU? A lot of people seem to have that problem. One's a continent with a lot of lovely countries that most people find attractive in some way or other in and the other's a political union. They're quite separate.
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