Matthew Ernest

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• CharlesW commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  Facts: He has an E grade for 2 A levels. He started a course in Trade Union Studies at North London Polytechnic but left after disagreeing with his tutors about the curriculum. I don't see how you can describe that as anything other than a poor education record for the current leader of the opposition....
• 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....
• 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....