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• Dirk Bruere commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  TLDR: I had myself driven from the hospital direct to the polling station to vote "Leave". As I have said before, if the EU Parliament were a real parliament instead of a rubber stamp for the unelected Commission (the only body that can make EU law) I would have voted Remain. Prognosis? A welcome fall in the £ which is long overdue, Theresa May as PM (as I said here months ago) and nothing much happens for years. How to fix the EU? Give the Commission's powers to the EU Parliament...
• Dirk Bruere commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  Corbyn's problem is that he was not ruthless enough early on. He should have cleaned out the Blairite traitors the moment the first one reached for a knife to stab him in the back....
• George Carty commented on The unspeakable truth
  Speaking of Syrian refugees, I've been thinking again about those gang-rapes in Cologne. I don't believe any genuine refugees would commit such heinous acts, as it is obviously an act of treachery against both their host country and against their fellow refugees. It is also clear that these crimes greatly stoked hatred of refugees (along with more general xenophobia) and strengthened the extreme right across Europe. Given that Putin is clearly aiming to undermine the EU and has been bankrolling Europe's far-right parties (including the Front National) with this in mind, how likely is it the rapes were perpetrated by...
• JulesLt commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  411 I'll bite. Because I'm not attached to the notion of Westminster sovereignty. We have had universal suffrage for less than 100 years, and it's been less than 100 years since Westminster had tanks and howitzers on the streets of Glasgow, less than 200 since Peterloo and John Frost Square, 30 since Orgreave, and what's happened in our former mining and steel towns has been every bit as bad as the EU treatment of Greece. Secondly - because we are heading towards a world where larger agreements that nation state level are required - ie climate change or sea pollution...
• Alon commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  That is quite likely to be a folk etymology. Rosten's work has been called ‘at best casual and eclectic’ by the people who actually work in this sort of stuff (for starters, the usual word for ‘circle’ in Yiddish is קרײַז krayz). The OED finds an origin in the surname suffix -ki more likely, even if it's quite noncommital about it....