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The Eurosceptic vulcan John Redwood, one of the " bastards " in Majors government that resulted in Blair coming to power.
He has been saying the same thing for decades.
You do realise Dick it is the Guardian, that paper you have dismissed as only read by
" lefty loons ".

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Two things, we haven't yet left the EU and we are NOT in the Eurozone in any case.

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If you look at the header, and what is written to the left and above, you'll see this;

It's an opinion.

Here's another by a different contributor,

Austerity is the cause of our economic woes. It’s nothing to do with the EU

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Oh, let's not start this bullshit again. It isn't the cultural event of choice that's the important part, it's that someone is wishing you a 'happy' or a 'merry' one of them.

I don't care if you say 'Christmas' or 'holidays' or whatever, if you're wishing me a happy one, then all is well. FWIW, even as an atheist I stick with Christmas because the way I see it that's basically a secular event these days anyway. And I love Christmas - sue me.

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Have a Happy whatever-you-celebrate.

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I mean, they can wish me a shit one as well if they want, the **** do I care either way :lol:

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Fair point. I wont sue.

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Christmas - it wasn't Jesus' birthday anyway, I think that turns out to have been sometime in what is now October. Christmas is, in origin, pagan and about fertility, as most things were. Bringing evergreens into the house was a way to ensure that spring arrived after winter, ie the "rebirth". It just got appropriated by Christians. Not to mention the entirely disreputable custom of wassailing that involved all sorts of goings on. It's a great festival all round really.

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I've got no money anyway, you'd have been wasting your time :D

But yeah, focus on the well-wishing and worry less about what the celebration is. Secularism is best for everyone :nod:

Keep Saturn in Saturnalia ...

Yeah, it's a mish-mash of a bunch of different ancient celebrations and you know what - I still love putting up the tree and exchanging presents and letting my daughter believe in Santa for what is probably the second to last year she will (:(), so I don't care what we call it, as long as I still get to enjoy it.

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you didn't read it did you?

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yawn

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Thank you for your input ...

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YW

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Let me tempt fate here and see if you're capable of giving a straight answer to a simple question, let's pretend I've got five pounds riding on it just for shits and grins, but what was the reason for your reaction to my post? It was essentially saying being PC about Christmas is bollocks. You've said before you're not religious, so presumably you approach it the same way I do. Wouldn't you agree that the important part to take away from any 'seasonal greeting' is the words 'happy' and 'merry', and not whatever festival or celebration is being referenced?

Secularism is all-inclusive, after all.

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I agree. I't just mind numbingly boring and nothing to do with Brexit.
If I was to be face to face with you and you started rattling on about "season greetings" i might have to tell you to go away and stop bothering me.
After you'd served me that is...