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1 hour ago, Icecream Snow said:

Always a scapegoat for Moy 😂

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This morning Philip Lee, Dominic Grieve, and Heidi Allen met to plan the launch of ‘Conservatives for a People’s Vote’ which formally relaunches on Thursday at 8 in the Shard. A shiny skyscraper in central London, surrounded by bankers… That’ll win over Mansfield…

The group is expecting to receive explicit support from eleven Tory MPs, and plan to use the defeat of the PM’s deal to recruit more. Heidi Allen, who is voting for May’s deal, attended the planning meeting in the knowledge that it would be voted down. Her plan is to argue that she tried to pass the deal but now the only way out is a second referendum. Duplicitous…

Guido understands that public affairs agency Hanover Communications is managing the campaign. In other news, Hanover Senior Adviser Steve Richards appeared on Sky News earlier today arguing for a second referendum. Fancy that! 

January 15th 2019 @ 12:30 pm

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Jools said:

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This morning Philip Lee, Dominic Grieve, and Heidi Allen met to plan the launch of ‘Conservatives for a People’s Vote’ which formally relaunches on Thursday at 8 in the Shard. A shiny skyscraper in central London, surrounded by bankers… That’ll win over Mansfield…

The group is expecting to receive explicit support from eleven Tory MPs, and plan to use the defeat of the PM’s deal to recruit more. Heidi Allen, who is voting for May’s deal, attended the planning meeting in the knowledge that it would be voted down. Her plan is to argue that she tried to pass the deal but now the only way out is a second referendum. Duplicitous…

Guido understands that public affairs agency Hanover Communications is managing the campaign. In other news, Hanover Senior Adviser Steve Richards appeared on Sky News earlier today arguing for a second referendum. Fancy that! 

January 15th 2019 @ 12:30 pm

 

 

One year on, and someone else thinks it not wholly unreasonable that there should be a second referendum 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-second-referendum-farage-speech-european-parliament-eu-a9307986.html

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2 hours ago, paul moy said:

There were too many 'leftie remainers' in the Tory party acting as a drag. The swamp has now been drained so they can now get on with the job.

Aye 👇

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Remainer Tory MPs agreed a deal to support Theresa May if she pursued “continued economic alignment” with the EU – only to renege on it today with an amendment attempting to keep us in the customs union.

Guido can reveal that on 1 July, key Remainer Stephen Hammond emailed his ‘Conservative Group for Europe’ of hardcore Remain MPs, outlining the terms of a coordinated threat to Number 10. The Remainers agreed that if the Cabinet backed a soft Brexit with “continued economic alignment” plus a backstop arrangement, they would not put down rebel amendments to the Trade and Customs Bill. Number 10 and the Cabinet went through a lot of pain to agree to the Remainers’ demands. Yet today Remain rebels are reneging on the deal and attempting to defeat the government with their customs union amendment.

From: HAMMOND, Stephen
Sent: 01 July 2018 
To: SANDBACH, Antoinette; SOUBRY, Anna; ALLEN, Heidi; WOLLASTON, Sarah; GRIEVE, Dominic; CLARKE, Kenneth; SUGG, Debbie; MASTERTON, Paul; DJANOGLY, Jonathan; NEILL, Bob; MORGAN, Nicky; VAIZEY, Ed; FREEMAN, George; Tom Tugendhat MP; LEE, Phillip; LEFROY, Jeremy; SPELMAN, Caroline; PAWSEY, Mark; STEVENSON, John; HOLLINRAKE, Kevin; CARTLIDGE, James; CHALK, Alex; HEALD, Oliver
Subject: Conservative Group for Europe Meeting on Tuesday

Hi
Apologies for the round robin of this email.

Firstly we will have our usual meeting this week at 5 pm on Tuesday , currently scheduled in CR7.

However, more importantly, we have to make the wider voice of Conservatives who want a sensible Brexit and are pro- business heard. Therefore we will probably need to commit to a number of actions this week. I suspect I shall be asking people for help with some different projects.

So as a first task please could everyone make a point to call their Whip to deliver the following message;

The PM has our support if the Cabinet resolves a proposal which not only allows continued economic alignment but that the Cabinet must also agree the Backstop arrangement. The proposal must be one that the EU will say shows progress and are likely to welcome. No more time nor political capital can be spent on foolish Brexiteer schemes.

If the Cabinet can’t agree this then we will force a solution in Trade Bill and the Customs Bill. The only reason a compromise was accepted on meaningful vote was because it delivered what we wanted and we wanted to give the PM the space she asked for at the Council. That Council has now gone and no one should be under any illusion that we will vote against the Government if necessary, as happened in December”.

If anyone has any issue or queries , please do get in touch

All best

Stephen

Number 10 caved in to all these demands from their ultra-Remainer rebels, pursuing a soft Brexit to get them onside. Even with the ERG amendments yesterday, the government is still heading towards the softest of Brexits and “continued economic alignment”. And still the Remainers are breaking their promise and trying to keep us even closer to the EU. Shows the dishonesty of the Remainers, claiming that the ERG is controlling the government when it is they who have been coordinating threats to force Number 10 into a non-Brexit…

 
July 17th 2018 @ 2:14 pm
 

 

 

🎶 Always something there to remind me.. 🎶   😀

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9 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:

Ben Gummer (Conservative), Ipswich says it all !

What does it say?

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1 hour ago, Jools said:

Aye ---  Below is a list of Conservative MPs who backed Remain  👇 

 

Peter Aldous (Conservative), Waveney

Edward Argar (Conservative), Charnwood

Gavin Barwell (Conservative), Croydon Central

Guto Bebb (Conservative), Aberconwy

Paul Beresford (Conservative), Mole Valley

Jake Berry (Conservative), Rossendale and Darwen

Peter Bottomley (Conservative), Worthing West

Steve Brine (Conservative), Winchester

Robert Buckland (Conservative), Swindon South

Simon Burns (Conservative), Chelmsford

Alistair Burt (Conservative), Bedfordshire North East

James Cartlidge (Conservative), Suffolk South

Alun Cairns (Conservative), South Wales West

Stephen Crabb (Conservative), Preseli Pembrokeshire

Alex Chalk (Conservative), Cheltenham

Kenneth Clarke (Conservative), Rushcliffe

Greg Clark (Conservative), Tunbridge Wells

Byron Davies (Conservative), Gower

Sajid Javid (Conservative), Bromsgrove

Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative), Huntingdon

Oliver Dowden (Conservative), Hertsmere

Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative), Thurrock

Flick Drummond (Conservative), Portsmouth South

Alan Duncan (Conservative), Rutland and Melton

Philip Dunne (Conservative), Ludlow

Michael Ellis (Conservative), Northampton North

Jane Ellison (Conservative), Battersea

David Evennett (Conservative), Bexleyheath and Crayford

Michael Fallon (Conservative), Darlington

Kevin Foster (Conservative), Torbay

Lucy Frazer (Conservative), Cambridgeshire South East

Mike Freer (Conservative), Finchley and Golders Green

Roger Gale (Conservative), Thanet North

Edward Garnier (Conservative), Harborough

David Gauke (Conservative), South West Hertfordshire

John Glen (Conservative), Salisbury

Robert Goodwill (Conservative), Scarborough and Whitby

Helen Grant (Conservative), Maidstone and The Weald

Dominic Grieve (Conservative), Beaconsfield

Andrew Griffiths (Conservative), Burton

Justine Greening (Conservative), Putney

Sam Gyimah (Conservative), Surrey East

Mark Harper (Conservative), Forest of Dean

Luke Hall (Conservative), Thornbury and Yate

Philip Hammond (Conservative), Runnymede and Weybridge

Stephen Hammond (Conservative), Wimbledon

Robert Halfon (Conservative), Harlow

Matt Hancock (Conservative), West Suffolk

Greg Hands (Conservative), Chelsea and Fulham

Richard Harrington (Conservative), Watford

Simon Hart (Conservative), Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire

Sir Alan Haselhurst (Conservative), Saffron Walden

Oliver Heald (Conservative), Hertfordshire NE

James Heappey (Conservative), Wells

Peter Heaton-Jones (Conservative), Devon North

Nick Herbert (Conservative), Arundel and South Downs

Damian Hinds (Conservative), Hampshire East

Simon Hoare (Conservative), Dorset North

George Hollingbery (Conservative), Meon Valley

Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative), Thirsk and Malton

Kris Hopkins (Conservative), Keighley

John Howell (Conservative), Henley

Ben Howlett (Conservative), Bath

Nigel Huddleston (Conservative), Worcestershire Mid

Nick Hurd (Conservative), Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner

Jeremy Hunt (Conservative), South West Surrey

Margot James (Conservative), Stourbridge

Robert Jenrick (Conservative), Newark

Joseph Johnson (Conservative), Orpington

Andrew Jones (Conservative), Harrogate and Knaresborough

Marcus Jones (Conservative), Nuneaton

Seema Kennedy (Conservative), South Ribble

Simon Kirby (Conservative), Brighton Kemptown

Julian Knight (Conservative), Solihull

Mark Lancaster (Conservative), Milton Keynes North

Phillip Lee (Conservative), Bracknell

Oliver Letwin (Conservative), West Dorset

Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative), Stafford

Brandon Lewis (Conservative), Great Yarmouth

David Lidington (Conservative), Aylesbury

David Mackintosh (Conservative), Northampton South

Theresa May (Conservative), Maidenhead

Alan Mak (Conservative), Havant

Tania Mathias (Conservative), Twickenham

Mark Menzies (Conservative), Fylde

Johnny Mercer (Conservative), Plymouth Moor View

Maria Miller (Conservative), Basingstoke

Nicky Morgan (Conservative), Loughborough

David Mundell (Conservative), South of Scotland

Patrick McLoughlin (Conservative), Derbyshire Dales

Amanda Milling (Conservative), Cannock Chase

Andrew Mitchell (Conservative), Sutton Coldfield

David Morris (Conservative), Morecombe and Lunesdale

James Morris (Conservative), Halesowen and Rowley Regis

Wendy Morton (Conservative), Aldridge-Brownhills

David Mowat (Conservative), Warrington South

Bob Neill (Conservative), Bromley and Chislehurst

Sarah Newton (Conservative), Truro and Falmouth

Caroline Nokes (Conservative), Romsey and Southampton North

Guy Opperman (Conservative), Hexham

George Osborne (Conservative), Tatton

Neil Parish (Conservative), Tiverton and Honiton

Mark Pawsey (Conservative), Rugby

John Penrose (Conservative), Weston-super-Mare

Claire Perry (Conservative), Devizes

Chris Philp (Conservative), Croydon South

Eric Pickles (Conservative), Brentwood and Ongar

Dan Poulter (Conservative), Suffolk Central

Rebecca Pow (Conservative), Taunton Deane

Victoria Prentis (Conservative), Banbury

Mark Prisk (Conservative), Hertford and Stortford

Mark Pritchard (Conservative), The Wrekin

Jeremy Quin (Conservative), Horsham

Mary Robinson (Conservative), Cheadle

David Rutley (Conservative), Macclesfield

Amber Rudd (Conservative), Hastings and Rye

Antoinette Sandbach (Conservative), Eddisbury

Andrew Selous (Conservative), South West Bedfordshire

Grant Shapps (Conservative), Welwyn Hatfield

Anna Soubry (Conservative), Broxtowe

Alok Sharma (Conservative), Reading West

Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative), Elmet and Rothwell

Keith Simpson (Conservative), Broadland

Chris Skidmore (Conservative), Kingswood

Chloe Smith (Conservative), Norwich North

Julian Smith (Conservative), Skipton and Ripon

Nicholas Soames (Conservative), Mid-Sussex

Amanda Solloway (Conservative), Derby North

Caroline Spelman (Conservative), Meriden

Mark Spencer (Conservative), Sherwood

John Stevenson (Conservative), Carlisle

Rory Stewart (Conservative), Penrith and The Border

Gary Streeter (Conservative), Devon South West

Mel Stride (Conservative), Devon Central

Graham Stuart (Conservative), Beverley and Holderness

Hugo Swire (Conservative), East Devon

Maggie Throup (Conservative), Erewash

Edward Timpson (Conservative), Crewe and Nantwich

Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative), Rochester and Strood

David Tredinnick (Conservative), Bosworth

Elizabeth Truss (Conservative), South West Norfolk

Tom Tugendhat (Conservative), Tonbridge and Malling

Andrew Tyrie (Conservative), Chichester

Ed Vaizey (Conservative), Wantage

Shailesh Vara (Conservative), North West Cambridgeshire

Robin Walker (Conservative), Worcester

Jeremy Wright (Conservative), Taunton

Ben Wallace (Conservative), Wyre and Preston North

Matt Warman (Conservative), Boston and Skegness

Angela Watkinson (Conservative), Hornchurch and Upminster

Helen Whately (Conservative), Faversham and Mid Kent

Chris White (Conservative), Warwick and Leamington

Craig Whittaker (Conservative), Calder Valley

Craig Williams (Conservative), Cardiff North

Gavin Williamson (Conservative), Staffordshire South

Rob Wilson (Conservative), Reading East

Dr Sarah Wollaston (Conservative), Totnes

Some Mps who backed remain yet expressly stated they would push for Brexit after the vote.

Heidi Allen (Conservative), Cambridgeshire South

Victoria Atkins (Conservative), Louth and Horncastle

Harriett Baldwin (Conservative), Worcestershire West

Richard Benyon (Conservative), Newbury

James Berry (Conservative), Kingston and Surbiton

Nicola Blackwood (Conservative), Oxford West and Abingdon

Nicholas Boles (Conservative), Grantham and Stamford

Karen Bradley (Conservative), Staffordshire Moorlands

James Brokenshire (Conservative), Old Bexley and Sidcup

Neil Carmichael (Conservative), Stroud

Jo Churchill (Conservative), Bury St Edmunds

Therese Coffey (Conservative), Suffolk Coastal

Damian Collins (Conservative), Folkestone and Hythe

Oliver Colvile (Conservative), Plymouth Sutton and Devonport

Alberto Costa (Conservative), South Leicestershire

Caroline Dinenage (Conservative), Gosport

Michelle Donelan (Conservative), Chippenham

Tobias Ellwood (Conservative), Bournemouth East

Charlie Elphicke (Conservative), Dover

Graham Evans (Conservative), Weaver Vale

Mark Field (Conservative), Cities of London and Westminster

George Freeman (Conservative), Norfolk Mid

Mark Garnier (Conservative), Wyre Fores

Nick Gibb (Conservative), Bognor Regis and Littlehampton

Richard Graham (Conservative), Gloucester

Damian Green (Conservative), Ashford

Ben Gummer (Conservative), Ipswich

 

(ps - Don't tell Hans loopy rolo - leave him in a world of his own - Thick as two short ones.. 😀)


  

 

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What's the point of that list Swindon? A few of them are in Cabinet. My MP is Transport Secretary. Javid is Chancellor. Some got booted out for sticking to their beliefs and some don't believe in anything other than their careers.

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10 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:

you always get the wrong end of the stick don't you ?

I was turning the insult back on him, someone with your limited brain power wouldn’t be able to get that 👍🏻

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1 minute ago, Hoola Han Solo said:

I was turning the insult back on him, someone with your limited brain power wouldn’t be able to get that 👍🏻

I got it, you keep doing it to me !

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11 minutes ago, Herman said:

What's the point of that list Swindon? A few of them are in Cabinet. My MP is Transport Secretary. Javid is Chancellor. Some got booted out for sticking to their beliefs and some don't believe in anything other than their careers.

I've no idea what the point of the list was, i was just pointing out that it's a bad list with the 1p5wich guy on it.

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You mean, shock horror, that career politicians toed the party line when Cameron (the Prime Minister) told them to vote for Remain?

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8 minutes ago, Icecream Snow said:

You mean, shock horror, that career politicians toed the party line when Cameron (the Prime Minister) told them to vote for Remain?

I have respect for the MPs that stuck by their principles and got themselves booted out.

I have a begrudging respect for MPs like Steve Baker who also stuck by his beliefs. (Not sure what he believes at the moment as he has gone into hiding.)

I have zero respect for MPs like Grant Shapps who hae no beliefs whatsoever and will do whatever is best for his prospects.

I dislike MPs like Sajid Javid who have performed such a volte face, within months, that there is something seriously wrong with them and they should not be anywhere near power.

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31 minutes ago, Herman said:

I have respect for the MPs that stuck by their principles and got themselves booted out.

I have a begrudging respect for MPs like Steve Baker who also stuck by his beliefs. (Not sure what he believes at the moment as he has gone into hiding.)

I have zero respect for MPs like Grant Shapps who hae no beliefs whatsoever and will do whatever is best for his prospects.

I dislike MPs like Sajid Javid who have performed such a volte face, within months, that there is something seriously wrong with them and they should not be anywhere near power.

Fair play to you, those are sensible views 👍

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The EU has a €95 billion trade surplus with UK to protect. The idea that the EU is in the driving seat is plainly ridiculous. They have severe youth unemployment problems and colossal Target 2 debts. It is entirely possible that these debts will destroy the euro in the not too distant future.

Barnier , van Leyden , Varadkar and others can threaten as much as they like but Boris is not May.....and free trading UK on their doorstep is exactly what they fear most.

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9 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:

The EU has a €95 billion trade surplus with UK to protect. The idea that the EU is in the driving seat is plainly ridiculous. They have severe youth unemployment problems and colossal Target 2 debts. It is entirely possible that these debts will destroy the euro in the not too distant future.

Barnier , van Leyden , Varadkar and others can threaten as much as they like but Boris is not May.....and free trading UK on their doorstep is exactly what they fear most.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46612362 seems to suggest something different. 

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20 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:

The EU has a €95 billion trade surplus with UK to protect. The idea that the EU is in the driving seat is plainly ridiculous. They have severe youth unemployment problems and colossal Target 2 debts. It is entirely possible that these debts will destroy the euro in the not too distant future.

Barnier , van Leyden , Varadkar and others can threaten as much as they like but Boris is not May.....and free trading UK on their doorstep is exactly what they fear most.

FFS. You still don't get it? If we're in such a good position to negotiate, then why is it that when we tried to get deals done early with India and Australia, they told us to get ****ed? There is nobody waiting to make brilliant deals with us, they're all waiting until the EU negotiation falls apart when the UK will be utterly economically ****ed and then we'll get some (horrendous) deals.... The USA is doing the same thing. They're waiting to pick at the economic carcass because everybody except you seems to realise how far up **** creek we'll be if we can't get a deal with the EU done... and you're banging on about being in the driving seat? You're utterly delusional.

The EU has just struck massive deals with Japan and Canada. I'm sure that they will find it massively difficult to make up a few billion in additional tariffs to the UK given the size of those markets. I bet they're quaking in their boots.

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9 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:

You can disagree as much as you like, but I believe Boris will get a good deal. 🎶Always look on the bright side of life🎶

What exactly is it that makes you think that?

Is it the way he has crumbled just like May did in every point of EU negotiation, but put a better PR front on it?

The way he managed to go to the EU to demand a renegotiation of May's deal and emerged with one that gave up exactly the same things but will damage our economy by 135 billion instead of 45 billion?

Was it when he casually said "**** business"? Yep, sure he'll get a great deal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44618154

 

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8 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:

You can disagree as much as you like, but I believe Boris will get a good deal. 🎶Always look on the bright side of life🎶

It's tough to "always look on the bright side" of Brexit when it represents such a major roll of the dice on behalf of a whole nation of people.

I suspect the outcome will be of benefit to some areas of our life and a serious detriment to others. I don't think we will know exactly the effect for decades to come. 

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Brexiters rely on belief. Everyone sensible relies on facts and truth

23 minutes ago, SwindonCanary said:

You can disagree as much as you like, but I believe Boris will get a good deal. 🎶Always look on the bright side of life🎶

"In 2018, Boris Johnson, told the DUP "no British government could or should" sign up to putting a border in the Irish Sea between mainland United Kingdom and Northern Ireland - less than one year later Mr. Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea."

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/watch-boris-johnson-tell-the-dup-in-2018-he-would-never-put-border-in-the-irish-sea-today-he-put-a-border-in-the-irish-sea-1-9110754

If you have put faith in this man then God help this country.

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1 hour ago, SwindonCanary said:

The EU has a €95 billion trade surplus with UK to protect. The idea that the EU is in the driving seat is plainly ridiculous. They have severe youth unemployment problems and colossal Target 2 debts. It is entirely possible that these debts will destroy the euro in the not too distant future.

Barnier , van Leyden , Varadkar and others can threaten as much as they like but Boris is not May.....and free trading UK on their doorstep is exactly what they fear most.

Swindo, you need to realise it is not 2016 anymore-as the the comedian Jamali Maddix says this is where **** gets real. We now live in an elected dictatorship where the government can do exactly what the want. It is probably the first time since 2003 that we have been in such a majoritarian position.

It means the Johnson/Cummings access can, and will, do whatever suits them best. It has been funny for us remainers to see the dawning realisation on the faces of the ERG and the new "Blue Wall" backbenchers how irrelevant they really are. Is Huawei a security risk? Doesn't matter Johnson/Cummings need 5G, and need it quickly while the consequences are way in the future. Suck it up, deal done. Do we scrap HS2 and use the cash to improve transport in the North. Johnson/Cummings need infrastructure spending now, not in the future, it may be an expensive white elephant but it is only shovel ready project in town. It's a go, suck it up.

What does that mean for the trade deal you must be thinking? Johnson/Cummings need a deal to exorcise Brexit. Doesn't matter to them what kind of deal: good or bad will do. The consequences are years into the future. So Johnson/Cummings will accept what the EU offers if it can be achieved this year. In return the EU will allow Johnson/Cummings to crow about what a great deal they have achieved. Afterall, it worked with the Withdrawal Deal. Johnson/Cummings gave the cash, the citizens rights, Northern Ireland and a border down the North Sea to the EU and the EU let the Tories crow about only Johnson could achieve the unachievable, reopen the deal and remove the backstop.

Suck it up

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48 minutes ago, TCCANARY said:

It would make things so much clearer if you made this you avatar.

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I've been using this avatar since 2003 on here, I'm not likely to change !

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