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  1. #51
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    We're not allowed to, apparently. Because what we vote for is irrelevant. Apparently.
    1. The vote said Leave the EU, it said nothing about the CU or SM.

    2. Not one of the Leave campaigns said we would have no deal. They all promised the easiest, cake and eat it deal in history. However, Parl should never have countenanced a referendum which it couldn't enact. As a deal required the consent of the EU as well as parl, there was no way a vote could specify any deal, unless the EU and the UK had agreed the future arrangements before the vote.

    So we are, in effect, enacting the vote which was a choice between Remain and whatever deal the UK PM returns with which commands the support of Parl.

    We should have had a remain vs no deal vote 2-3 years ago. Given we didn't we should have one now. Have May's deal (and Norway, too, if you want) on the first ballot and then use 2nd and 3rd prefs to get a winner.

    The only possible argument against this is from Brexiters who haven't changed their mind, and don't think others should be allowed to. Or Brexiters who wanted no deal when they vote leave and therefore think everyone else should have done.

  2. #52
    Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
    Sort of, but not exactly. We have no problem with foreign folk coming over for a holiday, spending some money & then returned from whence they came. We do have a problem with foreign folk coming here to settle.

    We do not ask for the right to settle within the EU. What we ask is that we can still visit Tuscany/Bordeaux/Corsica etc without having to go through the palava of obtaining a visa.
    So because northern plebs are too thick to go and live in a foreign country, I shouldn't be allowed to?

    Why the fück do people want to live here all the time when most of the rest of Europe is far more civilised?

  3. #53
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Yes, but consider the demographic of those who voted leave and would be outraged by a reversal of Brexit; a large number of them are middle-aged and many of them middle-class. I can imagine some protest marches and Farage spitting feathers on TV, but talk of civil war is hyperbolic. The TV and print media, led by Our BBC, will simply sweep it all under the carpet and after a brief period of mild aggravation, we'll all move on.

    Democracy will have been betrayed, but whaddya gonna do?
    You betrayed democracy long before, when you installed kings. An autonomous collective was the way to go and you churlishly refused...

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