The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe.
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Do the majority of people go 80 mph on the motorway?
I live in the UK, and my dad has told me "It is not possible to drive at 70 mph on the motorway. Everyone goes at 80 mph and [the police] don't care."
When he says nobody he means the majority of people drive at 80 mph.
The speed limit for…
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Did Lloyd George say, "We must reserve the right to bomb niggers"?
The following is an excerpt from a speech by Noam Chomsky:
The United States took over from— inherited from Britain, the modalities of control over the region as well. These modalities had changed during and after WWI, when Britain no longer had…
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Is it legal to kill a scotsman in York?
I once heard that it is allowed to kill a scotsman in York, if you do it with a bow and arrow. Apparently there is no danger in this law, since the bow and arrow needed to be made by a no longer existing factory.
But is it really true?
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Was the UK the third poorest member of the EU despite being the second biggest net contributor in 1979?
This video on YouTube of Margaret Thatcher at the EU Dublin Council on the 29th of November 1979 seems to suggest that the UK was the second biggest net contributor to the EU and also the third poorest member of the EU:
t = 1 min 11 s
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Was the UK forced to use burgundy passports by the EU?
According to Theresa May's Twitter:
The UK passport is an expression of our independence and sovereignty – symbolising our citizenship of a proud, great nation. That's why we have announced that the iconic #bluepassport will return after we leave…
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Was there a spike in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum?
Was there a spike in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum?
Example claim: 'Horrible spike' in hate crime linked to Brexit vote, Met police say
A “horrible spike” in hate crime after Britain’s vote to leave the
European Union was at least…
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Is it routine for Sweden prosecutors to travel to the UK to question people they are looking to arrest?
According to an investigation of the Assange case:
The Swedish prosecutor, Marianne Ny, has refused to come to London to question Assange about allegations of sexual misconduct in Stockholm in 2010 - even though Swedish law allows for it and the…
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Was there an electoral fraud during the referendum for the independance of Scotland?
Peter Moore, a francophone Canadian Youtuber, says in a Youtube video that there was an electoral fraud during the referendum about the independance of Scotland.
Given the ballot paper looked like this…
…two main arguments are used by Peter Moore…
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Does Scotland receive more public funding than its tax-payers contribute?
On the 18th of September 2014 the Scottish people will vote in a Referendum. The question:
"Should Scotland be an independent country?"
As you might expect the magnitude of this event has dredged up a whole load of wild claims from both sides of…
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Is their tax bill the single biggest cost of living for most households in the UK?
Mark Littlewood wrote an opinion article in The Telegraph [unpaywalled alternative] atacking the UK's Conservative Party.
He claimed:
For most households, the single biggest cost of living is their tax bill.
This does not seem credible to me, from…
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Could a foreign head of government be inadmissible to the US because of past drug use?
From the Guardian:
Michael Gove’s admission that he took cocaine 20 years ago has triggered speculation that if he were to become the next British prime minister, he could be banned from visiting the US.
The embarrassing prospect of a future prime…
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Do 90% of rape cases in the UK go unreported?
According to this image which I've seen on facebook a number of times, 2 in 1000 rapists are falsely accused and 90% go are unreported.
I already know that the number of falsely accused rapists shown is off by a factor of 10, which leads me to…
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Did Britain borrow $120 billion in 1945?
This copy-paste has being doing the rounds of local newspaper letters pages and dodgy hard-core pro-Brexit Facebook pages, etc:
JEAN Claude Juncker should be forced to walk past every white gravestone in Normandy and the rest of Europe to say a…
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Is life expectancy "stalling" in the UK?
On Prime Minister's Question Time, recently (19 July 2017), Jeremy Corbyn claimed:
"Life expectancy stalling for the first time in 100 years"
To which the Prime Minister's response:
"The right honourable gentleman is of course wrong in some of…
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Has freedom of movement of people lead to a reduction in wages and worsening of working conditions in the UK?
Has freedom of movement of people lead to a reduction of wages, and a worsening of working conditions, in the UK?
From 'If you've got money, you vote in ... if you haven't got money, you vote out'
A few years later, we met builders in South Shields…
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