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My birthday present to myself. Well, you've got to!

Recent addition, this is a Gosport (Hampshire) halfpenny Conder token

And there was I, a Latin scholar and a pedant, thinking I was being clever!! It's a common misconception that we don't have a constitution, but we have many bits and pieces of one, starting with the Magna Carta, going down through the ages to the Bill and Claim of Rights, and so on. What those judges (dubbed 'The Enemies Of The People' by that "august organ" the Mail, qua The Nazis in the 1930s) ruled on in early 2017, was that Parliament had a constitutional right to have a say throughout the Brexit process.

Yes I have loads with ships on, here's my Liverpool example (there are many many varieties of this one!)

That is a nice strong portrait Paddy, usually they are quite weak, I think. Frank

Sorry to intrude on books again. I think Blakeyboy is correct the UK does not have a constitution. Basically 50% +1 of the votes cast is a win for a referendum therefore 52/48% is a convincing win. In Australia we had a postal plebicite on same sex marriage which was carried by a similar amount. As it happens I did not agree with it but I have to accept that it was the will of the people as was the Brexit referendum result. If 30% of the electors could not be bothered to vote (as what happens at UK general elections) you only have your selves to blame. Having said that in Australia we had a formal referendum (50% + 1 of the votes plus a majority of States under our constitution} on getting rid of the monarchy which was not carried. Now the republicans are agitating for another referendum as they did not like the previous result. They like the Brexit referendum should accept the result and make sure the will of the people is carried out. If people do not understand this it's called Democracy .

Nobody. All it needs is a politician with balls. Someone has to get us out cleanly without our leaving being at the EU's whim. They are never going to let us go when May has negotiated a free lunch for them in perpetuity. If it comes to another referendum (which would be an EU-esque travesty in itself), then a clean break, no-deal it has to be as the only viable option to get this country out of the mess it finds itself in. Staying in the EU is no panacea because the common currency is not renogtiable, so the undervalued German component can pump out its wares to the detriment of the rest of the EU ad infinitum. Like it or not, the only mechanism to give this country any hope of having a balanced and viable economy is to be free of any interference from Brussels. It won't be easy, but does at least have a chance of success, as opposed to remaining in or being subservient to the EU, which would not.

RUBBISH what's a farthing anyway ????