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Lee Partis's avatar

(When) Do you sleep, Bear?

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Gully Foyle's avatar

He should try sleeping - might allow for his posts to make sense.

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Elaine Maisey's avatar

Where as you seem to put your dreams into print and expect people to swallow the churned out crud!

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Gully Foyle's avatar

Every single statement of fact in the book is supported by source material. Something you would know if you had bothered to read it.

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Elaine Maisey's avatar

If I want to read fiction, there are so many competent and interesting authors to choose from. I don't waste money on rubbish, in our house we've worked hard to earn it, something you would know if you had bothered to try it.

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Gully Foyle's avatar

Aw sweetie - I get that you're struggling with facts and reality, but here's the great thing. Reality doesn't give a toss about your feelings, and will continue being reality just fine irrespective of your foot stomping and tears.

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Elaine Maisey's avatar

Aww dribbleknickers, I don't struggle with facts or reality, I live in the real world, where people like you have no concept of life. I think you should crawl back under your rock and try and find the balls to write under your own name JR, I can quite see though why you didn't, owning your fantasies can be embarrassing.

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Suzanne Wilkinson's avatar

Dear Mr Foyle,

I am very sorry to hear about the threats to your children. That must be frightening and using a pseudonym is a sensible thing to do. However, I have a lot of respect for The Bear’s work and he also cites credible sources. I have yet to hear of any benefit of leaving the EU, well, apart from rich people getting richer, which does not include people like me. Shall we just politely agree to disagree?

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Gully Foyle's avatar

Hi Suzanne, thank you for your more polite and respectful tone, that all other commenters seem to be incapable of. You are the exact target market for my book if I am honest - reasonable people who are not aware of some of the myriad benefits that have come from leaving. The point of the book is not to demonstrate that it was the right thing to leave, as much as I may believe that personally - the point is to show that the whole narrative that there are zero benefits is a very silly one.

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Jeni's avatar

Poor wee Gully. No wonder he uses a nom de plume. Not even truthful about his sales figures.

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Jeni's avatar

Oh dear oh dear. It's going to get worse as we continue down this ladder in the stocking of reality isn't it?

Watching mental illness unfold in all its unlaundered glory is somewhat disturbing to witness. Lucky it's not an airborne sickness and herd immunity is kicking in at last as reality vaccinates a sufficient percentage of the public.

I hope poor wee Gully has alternative income streams coz he's not going to make his bread and butter from publishing. Aside from a few mockers and Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't imagine too many buying this deranged booky wook.

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Gully Foyle's avatar

Sold thousands of copies actually. On our second print run. As some people actually choose to read something and judge the content for themselves, rather than cheer on others when writing fiction about its contents. But having seen many comments from you already, it is clear you are beyond help.

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SueGenevanana's avatar

I hadn’t realized toilet paper was scarce.

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Gully Foyle's avatar

Id like to say that I hadn't realized the incompetence and immaturity of the cultist pro-EU nutjobs, but sadly that has been an all too apparent reality for the last decade.

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SueGenevanana's avatar

Immaturity is something you appear to be suffering from.

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Gully Foyle's avatar

Says the person comparing a book they are too scared to read to toilet paper. As toilet humour is world renowned as an adult medium.

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Elaine Maisey's avatar

Well I guess some people like a good laugh.

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John's avatar

May I direct all commentators to the former “Glasgow Herald”, a formerly great newspaper but now, in its electronic format, retitled the “Herald”. It’s possibly my age (that’s surely a part of it), but I tired of every comments’ section descending very quickly into stale “ad hominem” arguments by the same opposing political factions and commentators. It’s akin to the phenomenon of Godwin's law.

It’s doubtless coming from strongly held positions but, “The facts, Watson, the facts!“ - to paraphrase ACD.

You know in your hearts that this is not the way.

Hopefully that didn’t sound too supercilious (and I am aware that I am p*ssing into the wind).

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The AI Architect's avatar

Superb takedown of the temporal gymnastics here. The most damning part is how NGEU launched five months after Brexit was finalized, basically rendering the entire counterfactual dead on arrival. I worked on budget simulations for referendum scenarios back in 2019, and the UK's pattern of opting out of fiscal mechanisms was so consistent it was almost predictable. The idea that parliment would suddenly reverse decades of behavior and volunteer for joint liability feels less like policy analysis and more like speculative fiction.

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Gully Foyle's avatar

Wow.

Only 3 in of the 75 and you're already at the complete denial of reality stage.

"It cannot be a benefit that we didn't get hit by that train that would have definitely hit us, as it didn't hit us"

Surely your followers are not dumb enough to read this tripe and believe that you are worth subscribing to?

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Lloyd Basson's avatar

But that's the whole concept of your "75 benefits", is it not?

I'm still trying to find a new car that's being sold without GSR2, which is one of your claims....

P.S there isn't one!

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Gully Foyle's avatar

I would politely suggest that you re-read that benefit, if you have read it at all, as you seem to have completely missed the point.

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