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Old 30-04-2018, 22:15   #2593
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Re: Brexit discussion

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Originally Posted by Mick View Post
It looks like it will be a hard brexit with all this Irish border bollocks and the pathetic unelected Lords trying to defeat Bills passed in The elected house of Commons, too many folk trying to frustrate the democratic decision that was taken in 2016, they will not succeed. People need to get it in to their heads, we are leaving the EU!

Good to see a Parliamentary Petition has reached over 100K signatories that calls for a referendum on the abolition of the unelected House of Lords.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/209433

But oh goodie, another referendum if something becomes of it.
As "Northerner" posted in the FT today:
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The government has taken an advisory referendum as a vote for the hardest form of Brexit and the Lords are rightly resisting this interpretation of the June 2016 vote.
https://www.ft.com/content/b0064006-...e-22951a2d8493
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