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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 13 Oct 19 1.37pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

The problem is that your argument for a second referendum is totally flawed no matter how many words you use or how many times you repeat it.

Understand. There will no greater understanding of a future Britain outside the EU until it actually happens and time has passed. Before any second vote, people would only be exposed to more propaganda, falsehoods, predictions, self interest and inducements and nothing more that would qualify them to make an educated choice.

Your position is just a losers last hope of getting their own way and you know it. We all know it.

I really don't like to be rude but there is only one way to describe that. It's bs. Trying to find a way for the country to move forward and heal is not anything connected to "losers". It's both sensible and practical and ought to appeal to everyone, however they voted in 2016. Only those determined to achieve their version of Brexit seem unable to accept that. Stubborn or selfish? You choose.

 


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Jimenez Flag SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 13 Oct 19 2.00pm Send a Private Message to Jimenez Add Jimenez as a friend

Originally posted by dannyboy1978

Selfishness works both ways! But democracy is the over arching answer and last time I looked 17.5 million people trump 1.8 million.

FFS don't use that word or Maine will be desperately searching through the drawer under his kitchen sink for a brown paper bag to Breathe/Exhale.

 


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cryrst Flag The garden of England 13 Oct 19 2.08pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Originally posted by Maine Eagle

Did you now?

You knew “quite a bit” eh? So you knew the NHS bus was a lie? You knew the talk of Turkey was a bunch of nonsense? You knew that when David Davis said it would be the easiest deal in history, that he was a tad misguided? You knew that you were voting for a no deal, when the entire leave campaign spoke of piss easy deals, negotiated overnight, from our position of negotiating power? You knew that the NFU would call a no deal brexit the biggest farming disaster ever? You knew about the contents of the yellowhammer report, before it was even written?

You had “some dealings” with EU related issues. Wow.

So let me get this straight, you believe, you truly and honestly believe that the general public do not know loads more about brexit now, then they did in 2016? If you really believe that, be careful at the pedestrian crossing near sainsburys.

So you are the guy who coined the phrase backstop? I wondered who it was.

Yes I crossed the Atlantic, that was easy. All the stuff after that, was more difficult,

I am nice enough, but not when it comes to right wing brexit ideologues, for them I make an exception.

It's a becoming clear why you are a singleton.
If that's your wit then enjoy your bottles of JD by yourself.

 

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Teddy Eagle Flag 13 Oct 19 2.11pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Jimenez

FFS don't use that word or Maine will be desperately searching through the drawer under his kitchen sink for a brown paper bag to Breathe/Exhale.

Would make a good locked room mystery. Triggered into oblivion. Columbo baffled.

 

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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 13 Oct 19 2.12pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Matov


There is no detailed argument that negates basic maths. 52 is a larger number than 48. In terms of % it means that Leave won and Remain lost. Done and dusted.

No-one at all is arguing about maths. If you think that is even remotely true then you haven't actually been paying attention. We know what the result was in 2016. It's what it means and how it is to be applied that is in question. You think you know the answer, but many others disagree with your opinion. The only place such matters get resolved is in Parliament. Not here or down the pub. In Parliament by our elected representatives. So far they have tried, but failed, because of another set of unarguable basic maths.


Your Emperor is start bollock naked. There are no clothes.

I don't have an "Emperor"! I rely on common sense and reasoning and not the lead given by anyone. However, it does seem to me that Mr Farage might have pickled your brain at some time. Maybe he is your "Emperor"!


Lets say we have another referendum. And lets say Remain wins by say 52% to 48. Is that 52% more meaningful? A bigger 52?

Which is exactly why a 3 choice single transferable system is proposed, so that if your first choice fails to make the top two your second choice would be transferred. A close result would then be very unlikely. You do the maths! I think a "deal" outcome to be the odds on favourite.

What I struggle with to the point of apoplexy is how anybody can believe that a second referendum, after the first has been deemed of no meaningful consequence will have the slightest shred of credibility. Or how it brings us all together again. Of how it will do the exact opposite of cementing the divides and actually restore our faith in the power of voting.

A second referendum would not just be a rerun of the first. It would be to try to guide Parliament on what the people now want, given the experiences of the intervening years and faced with either a "hard" or a "soft" Brexit option together with Remain for those who voted that way in the first place. You cannot disenfranchise people just because they voted in a way you disagree with.

Perhaps it is me? Perhaps I am too narrow-minded to accept that when I am told my vote will be counted and a result acted upon that to then have it explained that perhaps that was not QUITE what all those politicians meant when they promised to honour it.

They have met their promises though! It's this that so many Brexiteers fail to understand. Despite many, including Mrs May, favouring Remain, our MPs voted to trigger Article 50, thus meeting their commitment. All the subsequent problems have not been about Brexit itself, but about how we Brexit. That is Parliament's job and not ours.

Actually you know what, balls to it. I would rather die being labelled an ignoramus than ever accept I am in the wrong on this.

Ignoramus, no. Stubborn to the point of intransigence, yes.

I voted on June 23rd 2016 in utter good faith. And I despise anybody who deems me a fool for doing so because that is what anybody who wants a second referendum with Remain on the ballot paper are doing.

No-body regards people who think like you as fools. They just think you are unable to see that things have evolved to the point that what happened in 2016 is no longer the only consideration. That's life and fighting yesterday's battles is rather pointless. If you still believe that leaving the EU without an agreed deal is the best option then that's where your energy will be best applied.

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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 13 Oct 19 2.14pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

I really don't like to be rude but there is only one way to describe that. It's bs. Trying to find a way for the country to move forward and heal is not anything connected to "losers". It's both sensible and practical and ought to appeal to everyone, however they voted in 2016. Only those determined to achieve their version of Brexit seem unable to accept that. Stubborn or selfish? You choose.

Cobblers.

All that needs to happen to move forward is a deal with Europe(or no deal) and for the Labour Party to stop their transparent attempts to pave the way for a potentially better election result.
The Remain biased Parliament and a small minority of dogged Remainers like you are the only people who won't accept that everyone else wants out now without any more blatant attempts at sabotage.

 

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cryrst Flag The garden of England 13 Oct 19 2.17pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (13 Oct 2019 2.15pm)

You say deal is favourite on a 3 way vote.
Ok let's say the vote happens(BS really).
If no deal wins everyone wanting remain, like you ,maine and steeleye will accept it.
I dont think you would so what is the point.

 

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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 13 Oct 19 2.22pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Cobblers.

All that needs to happen to move forward is a deal with Europe(or no deal) and for the Labour Party to stop their transparent attempts to pave the way for a potentially better election result.
The Remain biased Parliament and a small minority of dogged Remainers like you are the only people who won't accept that everyone else wants out now without any more blatant attempts at sabotage.

All that MUST happen is for a deal to be made with the EU that Parliament as a whole can approve. Until something is presented and thoroughly evaluated we won't know if that is possible but it looks almost impossible to me by the deadline. No-one's doing any sabotage. They are doing their jobs.

I think that is a quite deliberate tactic by Johnson to give Parliament no time for the thorough scrutiny needed, leaving them no option other than to refuse to accept it. It has nothing at all to do with "Remainers" in Parliament or outside, most of whom will accept a "deal" that protects our best interests but won't if it harms them. Many "Leavers" voted down Mrs May's deal and as the rumours are that this one has aspects that are worse then how they will respond is as yet unknown.

 


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Teddy Eagle Flag 13 Oct 19 2.22pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by cryrst

You say deal is favourite on a 3 way vote.
Ok let's say the vote happens(BS really).
If no deal wins everyone wanting remain, like you ,maine and steeleye will accept it.
I dont think you would so what is the point.

Or if no deal won the result would be purely advisory whereas if Remain won it would be game over, the country has decided.

 

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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 13 Oct 19 2.28pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by cryrst

You say deal is favourite on a 3 way vote.
Ok let's say the vote happens(BS really).
If no deal wins everyone wanting remain, like you ,maine and steeleye will accept it.
I dont think you would so what is the point.

If no deal was the choice then of course it would be accepted, both by me and I think by Parliament too.

I don't though think that is the likely outcome. I think a "deal" which a new Parliament has negotiated and which meets all the red lines of the EU and protects us too, would romp home by a very large margin. Then a disconsolate Farage would be trotting home on three legs and ready for the knackers yard, and the ERG left with no-where to go.

 


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chris123 Flag hove actually 13 Oct 19 3.34pm Send a Private Message to chris123 Add chris123 as a friend

Originally posted by dannyboy1978

Selfishness works both ways! But democracy is the over arching answer and last time I looked 17.5 million people trump 1.8 million.

But only a democrat if their side win, so not really!

 

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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 13 Oct 19 3.59pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Or if no deal won the result would be purely advisory whereas if Remain won it would be game over, the country has decided.

If a 3 choice referendum resulted in "no deal" being the outcome, and Parliament had committed to accepting it, then it would be done on the agreed date as would any "deal" result. As "remain" wouldn't require any changes then nothing needs to be done.

The idea that "leave" voters would somehow be unfairly treated is perhaps understandable from their perspective but also totally wrong.

 


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