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  • EU Referendum – are you in or out?
  • mikewsmith
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    Law is subject to interpretation that’s why we have courts and an appeal process.

    From what I have read on the judgement this one might be hard to interpret differently. Although lawyers do seem to specialise in the grey this one was black and white. Same as most of the judgements against the UK in the EU courts turns out they were right in cases of law.

    Shackleton
    Full Member

    It would be pretty pompous of him to decide what’s “best for his constituents” when they voted so clearly for Leave

    Yet that is essentially what representative democracy is about. Representing your constituents best interests in the long term rather than whoever shouts the loudest. Just because they have the loudest voice doesn’t mean they are automatically right.

    Kind of “a daddy knows best” approach. Like when you voted leave, against what your kids stated as their desires and in their best interests.

    zippykona
    Full Member

    I do hope Enola May doesn’t get the a particularly nasty case of the runs on her trip to India.

    mikewsmith
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    and to be very clear, this part of law is the one about respecting the sovereignty of UK parliament against the will of what a person wants. When a government decides it wants to and not follow the due process of parliament it is a very worrying state of affairs.
    This is one of the key points that leavers kept rambling on about and as soon as it doesn’t agree with you it’s wrong.

    TurnerGuy
    Free Member

    I bet most of the public want taxes abolished or cut severly – doesn’t mean that it is the right thing to do…

    TurnerGuy
    Free Member

    Like when you voted leave, against what your kids stated as their desires and in their best interests.

    I bet that any parents that voted leave did so as they believed it was in the best interests of their children – and if the children were old enough to vote but didn’t then ‘parent knows best’ is clearly true.

    5thElefant
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    I bet most of the public want taxes abolished or cut severly – doesn’t mean that it is the right thing to do…

    Yes they do, and yes it is 🙂

    jambalaya
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    This is more inteesting for fhe next 10-20 mins (or possibly the whole of the next 3 months) – start of the Vendee Globe 12.02pm

    [video]http://youtu.be/Gmte4-QN7rs[/video]

    oldmanmtb
    Free Member

    Gina Miller demonstrated this morning the absolute lack of any form of suitable governance in respect to Brexit by Farage or any other Tory Brexiteers- she laid bare in simple language the absolute inadequacy of these people to actually do any thing other than shout.

    mikewsmith
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    oldmanmtb
    Free Member

    Wonder how the working poor and pensioner Brexiteers are feeling at the moment – fuel prices up, food and clothes prices, up triple lock on way out, benefit cuts – brace yourselves poor people lot more coming…

    igm
    Full Member

    They voted for it

    Nipper99
    Free Member

    Law is subject to interpretation that’s why we have courts and an appeal process

    These were not just your ordinary High Court justiciary but the Lord Chief Justice, the most senior judge in E&W, the Master of the Roles who is the second most senior judge in E&W and the presiding judge of the civil division of the Court of Appeal whilst Lord Justice Sales is a Court of Appeal justice of some standing. I would be surprised if the Supreme Court did otherwise than affirm the findings of the QBD but in substantially more detail. Given the importance of the matter of the appeal to the Supreme Court is why all 11 justices will be sitting including those from NI and Scotland and hopefully the devolved governments in those countries will join in as interested parties.

    zippykona
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    Every pound my bank balance loses I get a million pound in my FREEDOM bank.

    cchris2lou
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    Wales have already said they would support G Miller. Scotland will probably too.

    oldmanmtb
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    Well Zippykona money’s not important…
    Until you have **** all…
    Then it’s very important as the freedom bank becomes the food bank in your life…

    oldmanmtb
    Free Member

    Oh and guess who funds food banks…
    Yep sympathetic guilty middle class folk (among others) except their sympathy is diminishing.

    DrJ
    Full Member

    i wonder how Ed would vote ?

    “72% of your constituents voted to leave”

    I’m willing to bet that that is not actually true, and that it’s another example of Jambaliar saying or repeating something that doesn’t pass the common sense test – in fact that fails the common sense test so blatantly that it can only be a deliberate falsehood.

    jambalaya
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    Corbyn says his SUPPORT for A50 is UNCONDITIONAL – Captain Chaos is alive and well 😀

    http://news.sky.com/story/brexit-jeremy-corbyn-says-labour-could-block-article-50-10647341

    mikewsmith
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    But this morning a source close to Mr Corbyn told Sky News Labour’s support for triggering Article 50 – the starting gun for leaving the EU – was “unconditional”.

    Sources… says Sky/Fox/Rupert (or Sly Fox Rupert??)

    molgrips
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    it’s an wxample of how we do not have control of our own law making

    But the ECJ is our court. We’re European.

    Unless you are saying the fact there are foreigners involved makes it somehow worse?

    A lot of Brexit arguments only make sense if you draw a line between the British and other people in Europe.

    br
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    Still waiting for Jamba and Co. to give us their opinion of what position the UK will be in once the 2 years is up…

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    Still waiting for Jamba and Co. to give us their opinion of what position the UK will be in once the 2 years is up

    a combination of this

    and blaming the EU for the UK wanting to have cake eat cake and not get fat

    binners
    Full Member

    Listening to the absolutely vile little creep IDS on the Five Live this morning, he seemed to be saying that “we demand the return of British sovereignty, unless we don’t like what it comes up with, in which case we reserve the right to over-rule the judiciary, because… well…. just because!”

    Well, yes, you disgusting little man …. As this points out…. there’s a name for governments who think they can do that. They’re called dictatorships

    torsoinalake
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    I’m not so sure about Farage’s call to protest. It’s getting a bit chilly outside, and we know that winter is dangerous for the elderly.

    Probably best to stay indoors with a nice cup of tea and the Daily Mail.

    slowoldman
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    Speech by Lord Lawson

    [video]https://www.facebook.com/Channel4NewsDemocracy/videos/1005183739559569/[/video]

    I wonder if the large number of alienated people are the same as those who voted to leave the EU? I would imagine they are and if so, it’s a vote for more of the same.

    EDIT – Hmm. Linky not worky. But it does if you copy and paste it into the address bar.

    kimbers
    Full Member

    At least brexishambles is serving as a warning to other EU countries that leaving is a stupid idea that will leave you the worlds laughing stock as the PM tries to take her own parliament to court 😳

    (at least until america out stupids us by voting trump in!)

    br
    Free Member

    This mornings Andrew Marr show is on iPlayer.

    Worth a watch, especially the bit where Farage basically says “we don’t need MP’s”…

    Facist.

    Although if/when we leave can we make sure that we pay no UKIP MEP’s either their loss-of-office settlement nor their pensions – they wouldn’t want to take money from something they thought wrong would they?

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/27/meps-final-payoff-157000

    mt
    Free Member

    @slowoldman, what you mean by that comment. You suggest that guilty mild class folk like you will stop giving cause some hungry poor people have a different opinion to you?

    In a free Youkshire you’d fit right in. Nowt free a lad, unless there somat in it for me.

    jambalaya
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    @slow – you can only post youtube and vimeo links with the Video button and also generally its best to remove the s from https

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Not much in the way of a responce to my post that Corbyn’s support for A50 is unconditional ? He’s been anti EU for decades

    Still waiting for Jamba and Co. to give us their opinion of what position the UK will be in once the 2 years is up…

    Have posted numerous times that we will be in much getter shape outside the EU than in in 5 and 10 years. 2 years is a short time frame and depends a lot on whether Greece has defaulted by then and whether the euro still exists in form we know it now. If Europe has collapsed economically we will be worse off than now but still better than had we stayed in. Postive impacts of lower currency on trade deficit and UK manufacturing ?

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    You suggest that guilty mild class folk like you will stop giving cause some hungry poor people have a different opinion to you?

    Eh? I fail to see how I’ve suggested that.

    @slow – you can only post youtube and vimeo links with the Video button and also generally its best to remove the s from https

    Yes I posted with the video button and I did try removing the s.

    squirrelking
    Free Member

    Not much in the way of a responce to my post that Corbyn’s support for A50 is unconditional ?

    Probably because anything that comes out of the Murdoch press doesn’t warrant one.

    tjagain
    Full Member

    Jamba ‘cos we prefer the direct quotes from the man himself?

    Have posted numerous times that we will be in much getter shape outside the EU than in in 5 and 10 years.

    Yes – and its just your opinion with nothing to back it up and one at odds with just about everyone who knows anything about this including the UK government

    Postive impacts of lower currency on trade deficit and UK manufacturing ?

    none

    mt
    Free Member

    @oldman, I was just try to understand why you said guilty middle classes had diminishing sympathies with those using food banks?

    If you could explain that would be helpful. After all you may not be a miserable tight arse who knows the cost of everything and value of nowt, if that were the case Yorkshire not for thee. Free Yorkshire (an it better be cheap).

    mrmo
    Free Member

    @oldman, I was just try to understand why you said guilty middle classes had diminishing sympathies with those using food banks?

    One explanation, look at education and attainment, income, tax etc etc and compare to brexit.

    The more you had the more likely it was you voted to stay, and the less you had the more likely to vote out.

    So those who paid in have been shafted by those who took out. And then you get comments from wales and cornwall asking for payments to continue after they shafted the tax payers.

    I can see why their might be a lack of sympathy.

    All of this fails to deal with the real issue, but then the establishment has always been expert at diverting blame from themselves.

    igm
    Full Member

    jambalaya – Member
    Not much in the way of a responce to my post that Corbyn’s support for A50 is unconditional ? He’s been anti EU for decades

    Because the article you posted undermines your comment perhaps.

    Corbyn says one thing, sources unnamed say he thinks something else.

    Nowt to see, move on.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Jamba ‘cos we prefer the direct quotes from the man himself?

    Yup, like triggering A50 immediately after the Referendum. Sadly you can’t read the pages and pages of anti-EU blogs on his website as he deleted them 🙂

    Economic predictions: Let’s go with the IMF then, UK highest predicted growth of the G7 even taking into account Brexit. IMF admission they “overestimated” (ie wildly exaggereated) the negative impact of a Leave vote.

    brooess
    Free Member

    Kind of feeling sorry for Nigel Farage – when he realised on that Andrew Marr piece that he wasn’t getting anywhere he just looked like a bit sad like he wanted his mummy…

    And now he realises things aren’t going his way he’s making suggestive comments about violence (intelligently knowing he can use plausible deniability if anything actually happens).

    Does he honestly thing people like my parents are going to take to the streets? They’re in their late 70s and can’t do anything much for very long before they need rest and want to sit down for a cup of tea and to read the paper 🙂 The only thing they’ve ever used a milk bottle for is to make the tea – not Molotov cocktails!

    Desperate stuff on his part… and he wouldn’t be trying stuff like that if he thought he was winning.

    A few people have asked where Spitting Image is these days but I’d like to see Monty Python or Ben Elton/Richard Curtis having a go – it’d be hilarious

    jambalaya
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    I’ll watch Marr later. Things are going 95% Farage’s way. It would have been 100% had we triggered A50 immediately as recommended by Corbyn.

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