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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: alans1100 on June 24, 2016, 02:25:21 PM
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BBC forecast for 52% leave
http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results (http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results)
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If the UK leaves the EU and Trump wins the USA presidency, the world becomes a bit less predictable........... :fp
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36615028 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36615028)
The UK has voted to leave the European Union after 43 years in a historic referendum.
Leave won by 52% to 48% with England and Wales voting strongly for Brexit, while London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed staying in the EU
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If the UK leaves the EU and Trump wins the USA presidency, the world becomes a bit less predictable........... :fp
These are certainly "interesting" times.
I believe it was a traditional Chinese curse, wishing that someone would live in "interesting times".
The situation with war in the Middle East and huge migration into Europe both add to the turmoil.
I can see the French, Belgians, Danes, Swedes and Norwegians wanting to pull the plug and close their borders.
The Germans can then run it to suit themselves. The Italians, Greeks and Spaniards are dependent on Euro loans so they can't afford to leave, if there's anything substantial left to leave.
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What is the derivation of "politics"?
Poly, from the Greek, meaning "many" and ticks, blood-sucking creatures.
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes
from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Am ringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."
I offered my opponents a deal:
"if they stop telling lies about me,
I will stop telling the truth about them".
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down
your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city,
it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)
We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.
Politicians are people who,
when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton, American actor/writer
What happens if a politician drowns in a river?
That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown?
That is a solution .
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:rofl
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Brexit explained!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE)
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Duh! Isn't Brexit what you eat when you wake up in the morning, like, cornflakes and stuff?
(http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y352/kjm47/kjm47/blonde%20headshake_zps2ulpq0ce.gif)