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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 .
QPR Oslo said:
The % of votes cast to mainly Remain political parties in the GE was greater than cast to mainly Leave parties. Seems to me the Tories have no mandate to take the UK out of the EU.
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You really don’t get it do you, democracy doesn’t work like that, our political system doesn’t work like that, in no system anywhere regarding winning and losing does it state that you add up all the losers votes from all the parties that didn’t win then top trump the actual winners, and yes the Tory party have a Mandate to take the U.K. out of your beloved, corrupt, failing EU.
Move on buttercup, you lost, you were defeated by the electorate 3 times, give up crying and moaning accept it or seek help because you obviously have a deep misunderstanding of the way s*hit works.
 
Stroller said:
The Midlands and Northern constituencies that swung from Labour to Tory won the election. I was wrong when I argued that these Leave-voting seats would stick with Labour in the GE. Plainly 'getting Brexit done' was more important to many people than the NHS or schools or privatised railways and utilities. I still maintain, though, that the original referendum result was based largely on xenophobic attitudes and that it was the Tory appeal to these attitudes that won out.

Disclaimer: I am not accusing anyone on here of being a racist.
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It's this kind of metropolitan, elitist patronising that meant that millions of working class voters deserted Labour.
Calling them racists, who don't know what's best for them, will not bring them back.
 
rangercol said:
It's this kind of metropolitan, elitist patronising that meant that millions of working class voters deserted Labour.
Calling them racists, who don't know what's best for them, will not bring them back.
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They don’t know what’s best for them and generally are pretty ****ing stupid though. That much is clear.
 
Turkish" Premier" Hoops said:
You really don’t get it do you, democracy doesn’t work like that, our political system doesn’t work like that, in no system anywhere regarding winning and losing does it state that you add up all the losers votes from all the parties that didn’t win then top trump the actual winners, and yes the Tory party have a Mandate to take the U.K. out of your beloved, corrupt, failing EU.
Move on buttercup, you lost, you were defeated by the electorate 3 times, give up crying and moaning accept it or seek help because you obviously have a deep misunderstanding of the way s*hit works.
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^ Enjoying Tory paradise.
 
rangercol said:
It's this kind of metropolitan, elitist patronising that meant that millions of working class voters deserted Labour.
Calling them racists, who don't know what's best for them, will not bring them back.
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Working class people that vote Tory self-evidently don't know what's best for them.
 
Stroller said:
Working class people that vote Tory self-evidently don't know what's best for them.
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Then it's up to the Centre politicians to give them something better, four successive GE defeats and the message still hasn't sunk in suggests the Labour Party is run by cretins (Milne, Murphy & McCluskey)...
 
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When a political party goes down to a record GE defeat and its supporters tell previously loyal voters that they are ar fault for being stupid, not the party, then that is a dying party
 
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GoldhawkRoad said:
When a political party goes down to a record GE defeat and its supporters tell previously loyal voters that they are ar fault for being stupid, not the party, then that is a dying party
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The party is hugely at fault. It’s the main factor without a doubt.

However the public are also thick as mince voting Tory and their tactics were shameless.
 
West WindsR said:
The party is hugely at fault. It’s the main factor without a doubt.

However the public are also thick as mince voting Tory and their tactics were shameless.
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I lean towards the Tories though I'm not a member because I keep my options open. If Labour had promised to push Brexit through, and the Tories backed Remain, I would have voted Labour. Does that make me thick as mince?
 
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