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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
Wait to see the rise of the Alt Right in the May elections. Did you see this:

Dutch provincial vote
Far-right Forum for Democracy wins most seats in Dutch provincial elections.

By Eline Schaart

3/20/19, 11:23 PM CET

Updated 3/21/19, 5:17 PM CET

Far-right populist newcomer Forum for Democracy stunned the Dutch political establishment after winning the most votes in provincial elections, according to a preliminary count on Thursday of almost all the votes.

Strong gains made by both the Euroskeptics and the Greens in Wednesday’s election mean Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is on course to lose control of the upper house of parliament.
And bang on cue. Only 26 more horror stories to go.
 
They've given us two extensions. Absolutely ****ing brilliant! But then, it's the EU, Stan. If Farage had done it, it would have been not very bright but devious
Only expressing an opinion, old chap. Did you read the Farage article?

Who is paying for his new Brexit Party? Can we now call it the Brexit Party, the one the ERG Tories are going to join if they don’t get their own way?
 
Only expressing an opinion, old chap. Did you read the Farage article?

Sorry if I overreacted, Stan, but they've just kicked the can down the road.

Looks like May is going to allow a series of indicative votes including Revoke Art 50. If there is a majority for none, it clears the way for WTO.

I don't read anything written by Carol Cadwalladr. She's the most rabid Remain journalist there is and I've never seen an objective article on Brexit that she's written
 
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I really can't be bothered clicking on the link, why couldn't you copy and paste the whole article like others do?

Actually, I did read it and it's quite frightening. His jolly-chap-down-the-pub likeability (to some) is being used by his connections to promote their alt-right agenda. He's actually a dangerous man.

Didn’t you know......he’s a ‘man of the people ‘
 
12 April first. Surely you'll give them to me then?

I'm hopeful we'll all be celebrating on 12 April, but 26 May is when we'll learn that the EU Parliament is to be filled with ordinary, patrotic MEP's from across Europe who will dare to challenge Junckers, Tusk and their successors and inject democracy into the remote, autocratic institutions in Brussels
 
No, it wasn’t. That’s a simple fact. No need to shout.

We probably still will leave though I’d rather we didn’t as I don’t see how you or I will benefit.
You just don’t get it do you, the minute it was passed into U.K. law and EU law it became binding.
My next question is do you or can you actually speak and understand legalese, the language used by lawyers so us common plebs can’t understand that they say one thing but it means entirely another, it is the language that contracts are written in and legal documents.
Look up definition of Legalese by Merriam-Webster, then re read that bit you posted about it only being a advisory referendum.
 
Sorry if I overreacted, Stan, but they've just kicked the can down the road.

Looks like May is going to allow a series of indicative votes including Revoke Art 50. If there is a majority for none, it clears the way for WTO.

I don't read anything written by Carol Cadwalladr. She's the most rabid Remain journalist there is and I've never seen an objective article on Brexit that she's written

She maybe right ?
I haven’t read an objective piece from anyone who gives the U.K. a post Brexit plan . As said remaining inside the EU is the only way to bring any reform against any human that Brexiteers pile the blame on

3.5m and 15 votes for a no deal

About time people accepted finally the serious nature of what that means imo

Also I must state who is now moaning ?
I believe Brexiteers have been moaning since day one ... and the remainers haven’t changed their views one bit ... they are in unity as is the EU

March 29th gone stage one complete and common sense to follow imo
 
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I'm hopeful we'll all be celebrating on 12 April, but 26 May is when we'll learn that the EU Parliament is to be filled with ordinary, patrotic MEP's from across Europe who will dare to challenge Junckers, Tusk and their successors and inject democracy into the remote, autocratic institutions in Brussels

Well driven Brexiteers are at least falling back on hope ... why should you even worry or care what the EU is ? That’s for Europeans to do
 
She maybe right ?
I haven’t read an objective piece from anyone who gives the U.K. a post Brexit plan . As said remaining inside the EU is the only way to bring any reform against any human that Brexiteers pile the blame on

3.5m and 15 votes for a no deal

About time people accepted finally the serious nature of that means imo

Also I must state who is now moaning ?
I believe Brexiteers have been moaning since day one ... and the remainers haven’t changed their views one bit ... they are in unity as is the EU

March 29th gone stage one complete and common sense to follow imo
Absolute tosh as usual.
 
She maybe right ?
I haven’t read an objective piece from anyone who gives the U.K. a post Brexit plan . As said remaining inside the EU is the only way to bring any reform against any human that Brexiteers pile the blame on

3.5m and 15 votes for a no deal

About time people accepted finally the serious nature of that means imo

Also I must state who is now moaning ?
I believe Brexiteers have been moaning since day one ... and the remainers haven’t changed their views one bit ... they are in unity as is the EU

March 29th gone stage one complete and common sense to follow imo
lucky it wasn't a postal vote, you'd have 50 million by now:emoticon-0140-rofl:
 
Well driven Brexiteers are at least falling back on hope ... why should you even worry or care what the EU is ? That’s for Europeans to do

It's the answer to the question - why are the Brits leaving when all EU citizens are blissfully happy with the centralised and unaccountable control from Brussels? It'll be mud in the eye for complacent Macron who makes out that Brexting Brits that are ungrateful idiots who need to get with the programme.
 
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Sorry if I overreacted, Stan, but they've just kicked the can down the road.

Looks like May is going to allow a series of indicative votes including Revoke Art 50. If there is a majority for none, it clears the way for WTO.

I don't read anything written by Carol Cadwalladr. She's the most rabid Remain journalist there is and I've never seen an objective article on Brexit that she's written
No problem, emotions are running high. Of course the EU move is devious, it’s also entirely logical when faced with a negotiating partner which has failed as spectacularly as May has.

I’ve no idea who the journo is, I don’t read the Guardian which I agree is irritating and has an obvious and tedious bias. I was just googling Farage/Russia and it came up. If only half of what she writes is accurate it’s pretty damning, and Farage would do well to front this out rather than dodging the question. Steve Bannon is the twisted mind behind the whole thing.
 
She maybe right ?
I haven’t read an objective piece from anyone who gives the U.K. a post Brexit plan . As said remaining inside the EU is the only way to bring any reform against any human that Brexiteers pile the blame on

3.5m and 15 votes for a no deal

About time people accepted finally the serious nature of what that means imo

Also I must state who is now moaning ?
I believe Brexiteers have been moaning since day one ... and the remainers haven’t changed their views one bit ... they are in unity as is the EU

March 29th gone stage one complete and common sense to follow imo
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