L00b Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 (edited) Yes it is. There is nothing "inconclusive" about it for a start. In this instance there was only two options on the table. The vote was simple. Leave OR remain. The higher total of those eligible and/or could be bothered to go out and vote went to the leave side. Narrow as the result might have been - that is still a win. End of story. Save for the oft-overlooked fact that the referendum was advisory, and this being the very reason why, on Cameron's government invoking this legal fact to reassure them, MPs did not push for a supermajority criterium. I'm deliberately glossing over the severe shenanigans surrounding the campaign, because they've been done to death and simply don't register at all, when they -and the course of action unilaterally followed by Theresa May's government since July 2016 against the best interests of the UK population- should not so much set democratic alarm bells ringing, as set them screaming the place down. You've all let yourselves be had by disaster capitalists, and they've already won: in years to come, Brexit will come to be regarded, as the veritable coup against the peoples of the UK, which it really is. The Reckoning will be terrible. ---------- Post added 15-10-2018 at 19:23 ---------- Hope you don't need any medication then. A no-deal will take us back to 1940....about that: heard about AstraZeneca today? Project Reality catching up with UK plc's crown jewels, there Edited October 15, 2018 by L00b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexo Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 heard about AstraZeneca today? "un énorme gaspillage d’énergie" That's the best description of this whole mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cats Hat Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 get over it, we are leaving - fact. Stomping your plates of meat in temper will make no difference to the result. It is very telling that in tens of thousands of posts about the consequences of Brexit, the Brextremists on here haven't done anything other than shout "We won! Get over it!" No discussion about what they are supposed to see as a bright future with some even accepting that leaving the EU will be damaging, just trotting out the same fanatical ideology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 It's easy to do when you're retired, you've long owned your own property, the economy basically doesn't matter to you as your pension is secure, you don't give a stuff about your grandchildren's future and you rarely travel outside Sheffield anyway. Which appears to be the type of people who are demanding that brexit go ahead despite the clear disaster it's already causing. ---------- Post added 15-10-2018 at 21:33 ---------- Yes it is. There is nothing "inconclusive" about it for a start. In this instance there was only two options on the table. The vote was simple. Leave OR remain. The higher total of those eligible and/or could be bothered to go out and vote went to the leave side. Narrow as the result might have been - that is still a win. End of story. Democracy doesn't have an "end of story" though does it. What's voted for one day can be voted against the next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cats Hat Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 It's easy to do when you're retired, you've long owned your own property, the economy basically doesn't matter to you as your pension is secure, you don't give a stuff about your grandchildren's future and you rarely travel outside Sheffield anyway. Which appears to be the type of people who are demanding that brexit go ahead despite the clear disaster it's already causing. Well they had better put aside some money to set up gated communities then, because if the future is even half as bad as has been predicted, those seen to be sitting comfortably while everyone else goes to hell in a handcart will most likely find themselves the focus of an involuntary wealth redistribution scheme! And they can forget 999. The only policing they will see will be the private security guards they pay to drive around their areas twice a month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightrider Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Ahh, but once again you fail to understand statistics. More people did not vote the leave (remain + non-voters) than did vote to leave (leavers) which is what the original poster's contention was. I think there is little point arguing with the extremists entrenched in their views. The best bet is to sway the more moderate people who far outnumber them into supporting a peoples vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cid Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Well, good job Theresa May called that snap election to strengthen her hand in the negotiations. In the last general election the Tories got 13,636,684 votes, the other parties got roughly 17 million votes; but we must accept the vote as valid, for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromedary Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Happened in 70s What election was that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailyBoy Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Well, good job Theresa May called that snap election to strengthen her hand in the negotiations. In the last general election the Tories got 13,636,684 votes, the other parties got roughly 17 million votes; but we must accept the vote as valid, for now. I think that post was very much tongue in cheek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromedary Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 I would now remind you of David Davis' comment - "a democracy is not a democracy if you cannot change your mind" You fail to realise that he said that in regard to the EU in that the members cannot change their mind once a member, or given very little leeway in being able to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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