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We voted to leave A50 has been enacted, we are leaving. Remain is no longer an option.

See here is the tricky bit, there are no stone tablets, the plan was never really written down was it. A50 has an exit clause - did we ever say we wouldn't do that?

Why the desperation to harm the country?

But to sum up, you don't like May's deal what are we going to do next to come up with a new deal, agree it with the EU get it through parliament, do all the other shit we need to do etc etc etc.

Sorry but play time is over the grown ups are coming back.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 9:48 pm
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Remain is no longer an option.

How so?

Article 50 Cougar?

What about it?


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 9:50 pm
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Cougar I voted remain- get a grip.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 9:50 pm
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and there is no mandate to “honour” it in the first place.

Apart from the 14.2 mil mandates.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 9:51 pm
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The ref has hardly been ignored:
biggest increase in civil servants since the war.
£2bn wage bill just for them, £bns more spunked on prep, the NHS has become worlds biggest buyer of fridges (from Germany) to stockpile medicines in **** peace time!
Nearly £1trillion moved out of the city (including Moggs own funds) that alone is taking 1% of the government's annual tax take- way more than we spend on EU membership.
Every other bit of parliamentary business put on hold for the last 3 years, with another 5-10 years of this to go, meanwhile the country continues to crumble under austerity.
The brexiteers that sold us it have to a man & woman failed to come up with a plan, their negligence & dishonesty bordering on criminal.
No one has a clue how to proceed, May's deal is the only realistic option we have yet polls as the least popular in every group....

It is the very definition of a shitshow and looking at the last three years you'd be **** insane to think it's suddenly gonna get better as we head into the much trickier future arrangement talks...

Common Sense left the country someyime in 2016, I can't see it coming back anytime soon.

I'm also very very tired of seeing comments of social media that blame Brexit being a shitshow on Barnier, Juncker, Remainders, May, Corbyn.... not one of them thinks to take a bit of responsibility for what they voted for.

Respecting the result? I'm trying but it's not easy.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 9:52 pm
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We voted to leave A50 has been enacted, we are leaving.

Not necessarily. The mechanism exists to revoke A50.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 9:54 pm
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So what we can sum up from all of this is the only thing leave doesn't want to talk about is what their plan is to get a majority onside to agree a leave plan.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 9:54 pm
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Cougar I voted remain- get a grip.

You don't sound like you did. My grip is just fine, what caused you to change your mind?

Apart from the 14.2 mil mandates.

14.2m what now?


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:00 pm
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Cougar you've accused me of lying. You're grip is not fine.

With a magic wand - yes remain.

Without the softest Brexit possible.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:14 pm
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With a magic wand – yes remain.

Without the softest Brexit possible.

Well that is easy, campaign for remain or a 2nd ref then vote remain in that.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:17 pm
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shake that magic money tree….

Shake it shake it shake it.

Ohhoo.. Where did all that money come from? Not from offshore tax free bank accounts that's for sure.

It comes out of the tax payers pockets via reduced public spending. Austerity innit.?

Nothing to see here. We're all in this together. Apart from the really rich people who aren't.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:31 pm
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@ctk
This thread is impossible. The only view tolerated is one of hatred for brexit and those who voted for it, real or imagined. Any defence of the result or that the people who voted leave aren't morons is shouted down by the same posters, posting the same bitter views over and over again. 🙁🙁🙁


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:33 pm
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Yet you are still here, lips a flapping.

What are the benefits of brexit?


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:35 pm
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What are the benefits of brexit?

Stop bullying the poor brexies


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:42 pm
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Sorry Mike. I'll make every effort to stop bullying the poor and soon to be poorer brexiters that actually have to work for a living.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:46 pm
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We could do multiple choice
Is it
A)

B)

C)

D)

E)

F)

Best of the ****ing best


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:47 pm
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couple of extra ones they are classics



I'm hoping somebody can remind me why this is all going not as predicted.....


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 10:51 pm
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Yet you are still here, lips a flapping.

What are the benefits of brexit?

And it carries on same people with their veiled insults. I voted remain you ****ing prick, there are no benifits that I can see but we lost get the **** over it !!!!


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:04 pm
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I sure as hell won't get over it.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:09 pm
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I can see but we lost get the **** over it !!!

If the planners decide to put a chemical waste plant next door to your house do you object or "just get over it"?


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:15 pm
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Cougar you’ve accused me of lying.

Well, no, I said that I wasn't convinced that I believe you.

Now I'm accusing you of lying however, for claiming that I've said things I haven't.

This thread is impossible. The only view tolerated is one of hatred for brexit and those who voted for it, real or imagined.

All views are tolerated. It's just that some people disagree with other people. Do you want to stifle that? Why do you hate democracy?


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:28 pm
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I've been trying to think how this could pan out in the few years ahead, next GE is before May 2022, I'm expecting to go out on May's crappy deal.

It won't please remain, we've been utterly ignored, and it'll maybe please half of leave as they'll see we've left, but I'd doubt it'll go much deeper than a DM headline, a smile, and a carry on in thier own bubble

So 75ish% of electorate unhappy, then what? I Cant see the major pledge at the next election, I did think it might be Labour getting rid of grandad and aiming to get back in to the EU, but the more I think about it who knows, the potential unknown is a bit bonkers.

Weirdly, a year ago I sat next to grandad on the train from Paddington to Bristol, me or him weren't sat on the floor, I'd just literally sat on the last seat availableand found myself next to him, he read a magazine on trains while a couple of people at least came up for selfies, I couldn't really bring my self to say anything, a year on I would have asked what the F he was playing at (I know..but FFS...)


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:31 pm
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One of the reasons I’ve come round to the view that we can’t dismiss the views of brexit voters is the fact that many remainers barely disguise their condescension and ignorance of the people they are so quick to call gammons or idiots.

Quite right, this is also the view I have come to so in the event of a second referendum I will change my vote to leave, the result needs to be respected.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:32 pm
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Here's me expecting an apology. But more mealy mouthed words.

I wasn't convinced that I believed you! Ffs


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:34 pm
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But Meft, thats just another silly protest vote? based on getting one up on someone else? Is that it?


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:35 pm
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All views are tolerated. It’s just that some people disagree with other people. Do you want to stifle that? Why do you hate democracy?

Yet you repeat the same arguments again and again and again and again and again ...., you never have anything new to say, it is just the same old bleating, the flaws in which have been pointed out. But do you recognise those arguments, no of course not, you just go back to saying the same thing again and again, ironically that is what you accuse the Brexiters of.


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:36 pm
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But Meft, thats just another silly protest vote? based on getting one up on someone else? Is that it?

Not at all, we were told the result was to be respected and there wouldn't be another referendum, I will use my vote to help achieve that.

EDIT:

Paddy Ashdown put it rather well

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Bv_1z2lFlw

Bugger: Link here


 
Posted : 15/03/2019 11:50 pm
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We were told a lot of things. Most of them lies. Why choose to accept that bit?


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:02 am
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the flaws in which have been pointed out

Which flaws are you referring to?


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:17 am
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in the event of a second referendum I will change my vote to leave, the result needs to be respected.

I've heard a few people say that… fair enough… but I've also heard people who voted Leave saying they'd refuse to vote at all if there was another referendum… so you'll be needed.

To be frank, I don't think it'll come to another public vote anyway… the politicians will do (are doing) all they can to avoid that. How would each of them campaign? It would be a nightmare for so many of them…


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:19 am
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I agree dazh and that is why you should stop doing it. Too.

Pretty sure I’ve not abused anyone on here but if you want to go and find examples go for it and I’ll defend them or apologise if I’m wrong.

Please don’t confuse disagreement with abuse.


 
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One of the reasons I’ve come round to the view that we can’t dismiss the views of brexit voters is the fact that many remainers barely disguise their condescension and ignorance of the people they are so quick to call gammons or idiots.

I think you're guilty of some kind of noble working class savage bias/fallacy.

You've come round to the view of a bunch of brexies because they get derided, yet you can't come round to the view of remainers (and why they might be livid) despite the accusations of being traitors, the racism and the killing of MPs?

You need to sort your priorities out.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:21 am
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Interesting it’s the attitude of the Brexies, starting with their “traitors”, “saboteurs” and “enemies of the people”, before flowing into the ability to disagree with everything (including the deal to actually Brexit that their PM had put together) that makes me think the Brexies need kicking out of this country so that normal folk can live in piece here.
I was willing to compromise at one point - marginal loss, roughly half and half, leave, drop the farm subsidies etc, but keep freedom of movement and I could see a deal. But they blew it.
Bunch of elitist scum the lot of them - yes I mean Farage, JRM, IDS, Ratcliffe, Dyson, etc.


 
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+1 IGM, looks like we had the same thought at the same time!

Appeasing the right working class worked out so well for Australia didn't it, with those race riots, offshore detention centres etc. Abbot and Turnball totally managed to appease the Bogans and stopped one their them from killing 49 people in New Zealand didn't they!

Appeasement makes them worse.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:23 am
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Anyway, Brexit has been live and running for 3 long years in June - it really does look like a failed experiment. They can’t sort out what they want, and if they could they can’t agree it. The project doesn’t work, time to bin Brexit. All agreed?


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:27 am
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Which flaws are you referring to?

I am told the search function is very good now, I am sure you will be able to find them with it.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:27 am
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Pretty sure I’ve not abused anyone on here but if you want to go and find examples go for it and I’ll defend them or apologise if I’m wrong.

Remember when you tell us all its over and we should just get on with it. That leave is a certainty but you keep trying to shut down talk of remain....


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:31 am
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So again. If anyone can tell me why this is a good idea apart from 'the will of the people' I'm all ears.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 12:39 am
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No more Ukip MEPs


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 1:03 am
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despite the accusations of being traitors, the racism and the killing of MPs?

If you’re suggesting I agree or have any sympathy with these you couldn’t be more wrong, or more offensive. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt though.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 1:11 am
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Yeh I don't see why the brexies can't answer a simple question.

And no. No I won't get over it. I've stated why more than once in this thread how brexit will damage me and my family.

I'm yet to hear what I can look forward to.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 1:15 am
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Did farage ever end up with German citizenship?

As someone was saying the other day, the UK was seen as cool, modern, progressive and generally a positive place /influence on culture,but it's lost all that.

Now, from where I am in Germany at least, it is seen as an introverted, insular place with ideas of grandeur that they can only aspire to. Maybe those ideas were always there, but now they've been exposed and, if brexit goes ahead, it will have lost its place in the world stage. Politically, financially and culturally.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 1:25 am
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ctk

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No more Ukip MEPs

I've heard used car salesman and cabinet ministers be more convincing.
It the EU is really run by unelected burocrats what difference does it make who our mep's are.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 1:26 am
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That's another one mike - well done brexie

No more ukip MEPs
No more unelected bureaucrats.


 
Posted : 16/03/2019 1:36 am
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igm, nice to see you back.

Mefty, seriously, you would vote to harm the country because 'you lot have been mean'?

One reasonable benefit of Brexit. Just one. Quite a few posts have asked for this now. The clarion call remains ( see what i did there? ) unanswered.


 
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