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Love the way the graph includes foreign residents, UK nationals who have made long term decisions not to play an active role in national life and children who have never voted in any general election. Talk about stacking the deck.

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Yes, I can see what the image says, I just wondered if they know their names are being used on an unsubstantiated image of dubious origin :D

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They regularly describe Brexit as the will of the people, as it’s a generally accepted turn of phrase for the victorious outcome in an election.

Some of those figures are reasonably easy to verify from electoral rolls, census data, etc.

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Here's a hyperthetical question.

The anti Brixit MPS force another referemdum and there are 3 option on the ballot paper and the results are as follow

35% - Remain in the UK.

33% - Leave with no deal

32% - Leave with Mays deal

Would the Remainers say they've won?

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Quite possibly they are, but as Chris says above, totally irrelevant to the referendum vote result and just mischief making

You never did say where the image came from either . . go on, tell . . we won't laugh, honest ;)

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OB, you need to calm down. It really is simple. Let me try and explain:

some people voted Leave voted as you did i.e. to leave a political arrangement they have a ideological hatred of. Fine no problem so far.

some people voted Leave having researched the pros and con and concluded they were better off out. Again no problem. No quite the same but again no problem.

some people voted Leave as a protest and actually did not wish to Leave only to make a point.

some people voted Leave because they were persuaded by the Leave campaign that they would be better off and this was a win-win situation for them.

some people voted Leave because they do not like foreign people coming here and working in the UK

some people voted Leave because they had listened to the media they subscribe to and believed the lies told to them over decades of misinformation

some people voted Leave because they believe the promises of the post-brexit low regulation, low tax, free market economy sold to them by the Tories (they are wrong btw)

some people voted Leave assuming that they would not be worse off financially and would not face any hardships

some people voted Leave happy to see an economic downturn and job losses as a price worth paying. Worth noting that these people are, almost without exception, the people that will not be impacted by said consequences.

Are you seeing a pattern here? It is a pattern of people voting Leave for many different reasons .. reasons that include valid ones, xenophobic ones, stupid ones, and deceitful ones.

Welcome to the Pleasuredome! Now pass me that Mallet of Loving Correction :)

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jfman didn't post that graphic, Angua did.

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I think in that scenario more work would need to be done. We’re in this mess because the electorate were presented a binary choice.

The issue of leaving the EU is far too complex to be put into a binary or choice of three. In my opinion how to leave and what to prioritise merits a vote or multiple votes.

What should we prioritise? Free movement? A trade deal with the EU? Other trade deals unknown? Reducing our net contribution to the EU? Fish?

If one of those things is far more important than the rest the Theresa May deal isn’t awful. (Note I did say “if”).

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Richard, you have found the Elephant in the room! The amount a city might get is far less that they have lost in the years of Tory austerity.

If any poor Labour MP smuck falls for this con trick, they would be a laughing stock.

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Wrong again. The 1975 Referendum on the European Community (Common Market) had a bigger mandate:

17,378,581 voted yes out of an electorate of 40,086,677. This equates to approx 43% of the electorate versus. 37% for the 2016 referendum

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Nope

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And 17.4 Million beat that Yes count by a small margin.

So - Yes it is biggest mandate issued by a Democratic process!!!

Couple of issues which totally negates your point above, totally:-

• Six Million more people were eligible to vote in 2016 than in 1975.
  
• The EU in 2016, as it is known as, vastly different to what it was 41 years earlier. People were not voting for the same things because they were not the same!!!
  
• 37% is an erroneous figure.
  
• 52% beats 48%
  
  Approx, 13 Million people who were eligible to vote in 2016 EU Referendum, but did not because they did not care either way or just could not be arsed to, completely blows the crap out of that 37% figure rubbish.

The UK did not get a choice on joining what the EU came to exist as today, we can thank John Major for that, for signing the Maastricht Treaty and basically giving the EU more powers over their laws than our British laws.

As with the EU gaining more powers since then, came the total corruption from within the EU.

The British people made the correct choice to leave such a corrupted establishment but they had to wait nearly 24 years to get a chance to say no, we do not want to be in this corrupted club, which is what it is!

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Only you have not corrected anything... Just insulted in a pathetic, patronising way. Talking of mallets - Do I need to start swinging my ban mallet/hammer ???

Now, where were we...

You have not asked all 17.4 Million people why they voted to leave, so your reasoning behind why they did, as displayed in the quote above, is Remainer driven illogical and insulting nonsense.

Perhaps I can vouch why I voted to leave the EU and still would (And I don't doubt for one second, other Brexiteers are with me on this), because I do actually want to leave the EU!

I was not misguided, I did not follow any misinformation.

I do have a pair of eyes and I can see for myself just how corrupt the EU is.

It's not xenophobic, it wasn't stupid, it was not ideological hatred, although I do actually legitimately hate the EU, it's not ideologically driven hate, I just cannot stand being in a corrupted con job club, which is exactly what the EU is.

We pay vast sums, in which they take a cut and then pass back to us, they are not funding us, when it's our money they're passing about and I am sick of these funding claims being made by some of you Remainers. The EU does not fund shit in the UK, we are a NET Contributor. We hand the cash to them, they hand some of it back and tell us what to spend it on.

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Missed this earlier - Absolute rubbish, none of those require to be in a union to gain such benefit.

Cheap holidays, don't need them, I get them going to other places in the world, at a reasonable discount - clue, the world is a much bigger place than any other country in the EU. :rolleyes:

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Less fortunate people than you are grateful for cheap holidays in Spain and to be able to work and live on the Continent.

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Oddly enough, a lot of Leave voters were ex pats living in Spain. Not really going to make a huge difference to the numbers, but I suspect they were expecting things to carry on much as they are after leaving the EU.

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And of course, you are not at all opinionated and equally, you are always right.

Except that leave means leave. Nothing you can say will change that although no doubt you and others on here will continue to argue that black is white.

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Yes we all know leave means leave.... but don't think its going to limit the right for one to voice a opinion that might be disagreeable to some on here because it won't as l myself accepted the result but that does not mean l or anybody else will keep quiet on a good many issues involving Brexit because we won't and if some don't like it well that is tough luck for them.