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Old 01-12-2018, 10:49   #4070
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
One of my early forays into this thread, and two weeks later I feel like we are further from No Deal than when I typed it then.
I don't know how you come to that conclusion. We are just a couple of weeks from a vote on the withdrawal agreement, and if they vote it down, it will be a no deal.

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Originally Posted by Angua View Post
A lot of the areas in England that benefitted most from the EU funds supported leave. Where areas like the Thames Valley that did not need the EU subsidies voted remain.
It seems to me that perhaps those people living outside of England who voted remain were not clued up enough to realise that this 'EU money' actually originated from the money the UK paid out in the first place.

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
But you know that is not what he is saying don't you? The problem you have is that the 2016 vote based is on uninformed consent. The other problem is that this is not a GE where if you change your mind, you vote the idiots out in 5 years or less.

The vote was one of huge structural, social and economic significance and as such the population *must* be involved now the options are clear and present. It is quite sinister that a democracy should not allow it's population to be involved at this stage.

What is even more sinister is the relish that some express for a No Deal. The proposition that the 37% should drag the whole country down to fulfil their (to me) misplaced wishes is so wrong. This is my country, the one I and my children live in and if it is is going to be trashed, there should be a better mandate that the one currently in place.

Your indignation regarding the prospect of a second referendum is not one based on an affront to democracy. Rather it is anger: you got what you wanted after so many years and now you fear it will taken away from you.
No. You only want a second referendum because you didn't get what you wanted.

I find it rather worrying that someone who posts this nonsense so persistently could have not understood what 'leave' and 'remain' meant.

I certainly knew, Mick knew and everyone else who voted to leave and posted on here knew. You are basically insulting 'leave' voters because you assume they must be ignorant to have voted as they did!

Priceless!
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