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Why the calls for Boris to resign?

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    #71
    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Well he didn't do a special degree, he did Classics, for which he got a scholarship. He did 'only' get a 2:1 but from Oxford that's hardly shabby.
    How many state schools have Latin and Greek on their curriculum? I know that you don't actually need either to study classics, but trust me, it's easier to get a place if you have.
    England's greatest sailor since Nelson lost the armada.

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      #72
      Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
      I think you'll find it's arrogance and a sense of self-entitlement
      Originally posted by d000hg View Post
      Well he didn't do a special degree, he did Classics, for which he got a scholarship. He did 'only' get a 2:1 but from Oxford that's hardly shabby.
      Originally posted by Uncle Albert View Post
      How many state schools have Latin and Greek on their curriculum? I know that you don't actually need either to study classics, but trust me, it's easier to get a place if you have.
      I think the bottom line is that he's more a product of privilege than of raw talent.
      Hard Brexit now!
      #prayfornodeal

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        #73
        Originally posted by sasguru View Post
        I think the bottom line is that he's more a product of privilege than of raw talent.
        But in any case you should be looking at the de-facto unelected leader of the UK, Dominic Cummings, who by all accounts was responsible for prorogation.
        Hard Brexit now!
        #prayfornodeal

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          #74
          Originally posted by sasguru View Post
          sp. Range-Kutta. Should have paid more attention to the maths, perhaps
          And lots of things are difficult for most people, learning any sort of language for example.
          Yet I know many multi-lingual people who are thick as mince.
          Touche (Runge)
          But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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            #75
            Originally posted by sasguru View Post
            sp. Range-Kutta. Should of paid more attention to the maths, perhaps
            And lots of things are difficult for most people, learning any sort of language for example.
            Yet I know many multi-lingual people who are thick as mince.
            FTFY

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              #76
              Well if you're following Parliament at the moment, he's acting like a right **** and lying through his back teeth.
              Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                #77
                Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                But in any case you should be looking at the de-facto unelected leader of the UK, Dominic Cummings, who by all accounts was responsible for prorogation.
                Whataboutery!
                Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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                  #78
                  Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
                  Well if you're following Parliament at the moment, he's acting like a right **** and lying through his back teeth.
                  Shouldn't you be more worried about what's happening in your chosen country?
                  His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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                    #79
                    Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                    Shouldn't you be more worried about what's happening in your chosen country?
                    I do but I switched over to the Comedy Channel and they were showing UK Parliament...
                    Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                      #80
                      Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
                      I do but I switched over to the Comedy Channel and they were showing UK Parliament...
                      have you moved from Germany then??
                      Switzerland, maybe?

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