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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 .
So, I presume that, all people asking for a second referendum (because they didn't like the first result) would be in favour of a general election every 18 months or so?
For example, if Corbyn wins the next election and after a year a sizeable minority don't like what he's doing and believe they were misled, they should be able to demand another vote?
Plus, many Tory boy kids who weren't old enough to vote would then be 18 and able to make a difference. Many diehard labour voters may have died of old age, disease etc.
That's democracy eh?


Yep......plain daft!!

Me I totally accepted the vote shocked yes but it’s respected

No idea what the result would be given the last two years however surely most would agree they know a lot now about the subject and it’s potential impacts. Far too serious now at the 11th hour not to be 100% sure

I respect that many are still sure that Brexit is the way to go but remember just in this forum we have had nothing more than disgraceful bias posts about some European countries telling them all to simply **** off ! Remainers still represent 48% going by the vote they also have a voice

Not only that it seems today that the remain vote was based on sound logic

Personally I have a out but that doesn’t stop me from caring passionately about my country and making sure 100% that this monumental final decision is democratically correct

Not bothered re a new vote imo but if this pulls down the UK I want the Brexiteer to be accountable for it for the sake of the future generations

Yet I see and hear nothing from a Brexiteer about a vision for the new UK plus I passionately do care about the regions like Scotland and NI and our brilliant cities all of which wanted remain

That’s not daft imo
 
Not sure I've ever mentioned just England mate. I quite like the union.
You won't be surprised that I completely disagree with you about our capability to be a sovereign independent country. I've never sold out.
If the will was there from the ruling elite I believe it would be attainable.
We did manage before the EU for ****'s sake.

Agreed of course we managed well before the EU but I again make the point that this is 2019 Col and things are not what they used to be.

The haves and have nots will never change in capitalism that is a proven fact

I am sorry but again pose that we did sell out our industries big time and we cannot simply start again without a massive shift in culture

We have become too comfortable imo buying in goods and services ... it’s a irretrievable situation imo and after Brexit this will be proven very quickly

Regardless of how wonderful our economy is it’s on a knife edge ... everything run on the tightest margins you can only cut so much and ever expect performance and efficiency to sync and balance
 
mm, much bigger scale thinking ?? Like when they tried to ban the sale of straight bananas ??
I’ll give you the benefit of assuming that you know the difference between liking an idea and not necessarily the practice of that idea, and that you know that banana reference is bollocks, just another Euromyth made up by people like Boris Johnson.

“Bananas have always been classified by quality and size for international trade. Because the standards, set by individual governments and the industry, were confusing, the European Commission was asked to draw up new rules.

Commission regulation 2257/94 decreed that bananas in general should be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”. Those sold as “extra class” must be perfect, “class 1” can have “slight defects of shape” and “class 2” can have full-scale “defects of shape.”

Nothing is banned under the regulation, which sets grading rules requested by industry to make sure importers – including UK wholesalers and supermarkets – know exactly what they will be getting when they order a box of bananas.”

We had our own regulations before the EU ones, which save time and money for importers and exporters/ re-exporters.
seems to me to show that EU countries are free to make their own decisions re migrants, what’s your point?
Thing is though, this argument put forward by remainers that brexiters wanted more sovereignty, so we should accept parliament making the final decision simply doesn't wash.
The same sovereign government promised the electorate that the referendum result would be carried out. The same sovereign houses of parliament voted overwhelmingly to implement the result and both main parties fought an election promising to do the same.
I have no problem with a sovereign government making the final decision, which should either be May's deal, another deal or no deal. Remaining can't be an option as that ship has sailed.
Unfortunately, these sovereign representatives of our are lying, scheming, betraying scum bags who have been plotting, along with the remainer civil servants to stop brexit from ever happening.
I agree that referendums aren't ideal, but we had it and the people chose.
Yes, it was difficult to express myself clearly without it seeming like a dig at Brexiters, which wasn’t my intention but I can see how it can be interpreted like that. I do genuinely think we need to develop a shared or at least broader understanding of what sovereignty means in the UK context and what our expectations of our elected representatives are, regardless of Brexit. I am far from clear myself.
They are called ” the enemy within”.
To save time and add clarity could you give us a list of who you regard to be the ‘enemy within’. Groups/organisations rather than individual names will be fine, I should be able to tell if I am on the list from those.
 
It's just another remainer excuse. They are playing this card quite a lot of late. 'Leavers all had different views'? The fundamental thing was we all wanted to leave (that was it). It really is last ditch desperados.
It's like saying that the Tories shouldn't have won the election because people voted for different policies?
Be happy Ellers. If Mays deal goes through you're leaving.
 
You elect them (MEP's) too don't you? And they are no further away than eg Northern Ireland.

They are so remote, no one knows anything about them or the work they do or don't do. Farage is the only household name - of the others, we only hear about them when they cheat on their expenses.
 
As I understand it we would still have freedom of movement, have to pay significant amounts of money, be tied by pretty much all the rules and have no say in them. I believe that Norway likes the option because it gives autonomy over fisheries and agriculture.
I'm happy to be corrected on any of this - as I've said before all the different permutations make my brain explode...

From what I understand the Norway model fulfils the will of the referendum by delivering an exit from the European Union. The fact that other ties, memberships, treaties and obligations remain in place, in my view, is good news for the 48%.

As I’ve said before, if the electorate was one individual, that individual was only ever so marginally in favour of leaving the EU, certainly not wholeheartedly, so something like the Norway model delivers pretty much what (on balance) I think the electorate asked for.

Just my view, of course. Others equally valid.
 
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From what I understand the Norway model fulfils the will of the referendum by delivering an exit from the European Union. The fact that other ties, memberships, treaties and obligations remain in place, in my view, is good news for the 48%.

As I’ve said before, if the electorate was one individual, that individual was only ever so marginally in favour of leaving the EU, certainly not wholeheartedly, so something like to Norway model delivers pretty much what (on balance) I think the electorate asked for.

Just my view, of course. Others equally valid.

I think we've all agreed on this board that the high scale of immigration into this country was a significant factor in the Leave result. The Norway model doesn't address this in the slightest.
 
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I think we've all agreed on this board that the high scale of immigration into this country was a significant factor in the Leave result. The Norway model doesn't address this in the slightest.

Yes, but the immigration argument was built on false premises. Anyway, if the 48% were happy with free movement, and a chunk of the 52% were too (you know, the ones for whom it was all about sovereignty, bureaucracy, fishing etc.), there's a majority who are happy for it to continue.
 
So, I presume that, all people asking for a second referendum (because they didn't like the first result) would be in favour of a general election every 18 months or so?
For example, if Corbyn wins the next election and after a year a sizeable minority don't like what he's doing and believe they were misled, they should be able to demand another vote?
Plus, many Tory boy kids who weren't old enough to vote would then be 18 and able to make a difference. Many diehard labour voters may have died of old age, disease etc.
That's democracy eh?


Yep......plain daft!!
Spot on.
It's last ditch Remoaner fanatics trying anything and everything. It reminds me of the last days of Berlin in 1945. Nothing to lose now. They will all be coming out of the woodwork in the next few days.
 
Yes, but the immigration argument was built on false premises. Anyway, if the 48% were happy with free movement, and a chunk of the 52% were too (you know, the ones for whom it was all about sovereignty, bureaucracy, fishing etc.), there's a majority who are happy for it to continue.

No false premise. The numbers coming in from the EU since the early 2000's have been huge.

And there's you trying to split the Leave vote again, Strolls. [HASHTAG]#bleedinobvious[/HASHTAG]...
 
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No false premise. The numbers coming in from the EU since the early 2000's have been huge.

And there's you trying to split the Leave vote again, Strolls. [HASHTAG]#bleedinobvious[/HASHTAG]...

There was more than one Leave vote, Goldie.

I heard someone on the radio yesterday banging on about how all these EU immigrants were the reason that the NHS can't cope. In reality (and apart from the Tories underfunding it), it's EU immigrants going home that's causing NHS staff shortages.
 
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I’ll give you the benefit of assuming that you know the difference between liking an idea and not necessarily the practice of that idea, and that you know that banana reference is bollocks, just another Euromyth made up by people like Boris Johnson.

“Bananas have always been classified by quality and size for international trade. Because the standards, set by individual governments and the industry, were confusing, the European Commission was asked to draw up new rules.

Commission regulation 2257/94 decreed that bananas in general should be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”. Those sold as “extra class” must be perfect, “class 1” can have “slight defects of shape” and “class 2” can have full-scale “defects of shape.”

Nothing is banned under the regulation, which sets grading rules requested by industry to make sure importers – including UK wholesalers and supermarkets – know exactly what they will be getting when they order a box of bananas.”

We had our own regulations before the EU ones, which save time and money for importers and exporters/ re-exporters.

seems to me to show that EU countries are free to make their own decisions re migrants, what’s your point?.

Firstly, the regulation you speak of was repealed by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1333/2011 of 19 December 2011 laying down marketing standards for bananas, rules on the verification of compliance with those marketing standards and requirements for notifications in the banana sector with effect as of 9 January 2012, which specifically limited the bendiness of a banana.

Oh and a nice article by the Guardian, that you drew your quote from, however incomplete the article was, maybe you should read the Telegraph ??

But lets not quibble of EU regulations, my quoting of this, was to draw reference to your assumption, that a big EU, was somehow better, my response, something that big should not be concerned as to the shape of bananas for sale, but more concerned with members countries acting inhumanely to immigrants, shipping them off, to some Alcatraz style "accommodation".
 
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