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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 .
A no deal is better than a second vote?!?!?! We voted to leave so we leave?!?!?!?
You didn't have a clue what you were voting for....Nobody did. This time everyone does! Surely even you can see that!!!

So bob you were the one who claimed that you didn't vote because you didn't understand it.... Please don't tar us with the same brush. I knew exactly what I was voting for as did everyone else.
It was clear not only through the media but with the government leaflets that went through all the doors.
Don't confuse peoples voting rights to May's cock up.
Sadly the more you post the more you sound like a remainer trying to pretend you are not.
 
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Interesting stuff on the radio this morning, one being that there is a court case (ECJ) underway to decide whether the UK alone (without the agreement of the EU) can revoke or pause Article 50. Apparently most constitutional lawyers think we can. Great news for Remainer MPs, who know there is no parliamentary majority for this deal or a no deal end game, but voting against the deal potentially gives them another option. I doubt the EU would agree to renegotiating something which has taken two and a half years, which would leave Norway or remaining in as the options. Both of which are better than the deal available, unless you don’t care about economics.

Also Health Secretary Hancock would not confirm or deny whether he told the cabinet that he could not guarantee that deaths would not result from a no deal outcome.

Raab, like Davis, unable to live with the deal that he was responsible for negotiating. Pathetic failures.

If, as is highly likely, Parliament kicks this out, surely that means the collapse of the government, with the Tories then forced to decide between self interest, finding a new leader (who of course will be just as **** as May), or calling an election (nightmare) or seeking to give Parliament more direction through another referendum (no guarantee that a significant majority either way will result, horribly divisive, not a solution). They will of course choose self interest, because they are Tories.

May you live in interesting times, as the old Chinese curse goes.

Raab and Davis were completely undermined by the snivelling, left wing, pro remain, EU loving civil servants who have steered May to this position.
I don't expect you to acknowledge this because you agree with them.
 
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She will quit after these questions as basically everyone in the house as said they won't back her.
 
Raab and Davis were completely undermined by the snivelling, left wing, pro remain, EU loving civil servants who have steered May to this position.
I don't expect you to acknowledge this because you agree with them.

Raab basically quit because the remoaner Olly Robbins was doing the dealings. It's embarrassing watching May now. I feel sorry for her. She looks broken and weak.
 
A no deal is better than a second vote?!?!?! We voted to leave so we leave?!?!?!?
You didn't have a clue what you were voting for....Nobody did. This time everyone does! Surely even you can see that!!!

Bob, with all due respect mate, please stop with this condescending crap.
I know exactly what I voted for and would have been happy with a few compromises as 48% voted to remain.
However, this deal is a complete sell out of the referendum result.

Utter ****s the lot of them.
 
Raab and Davis were completely undermined by the snivelling, left wing, pro remain, EU loving civil servants who have steered May to this position.
I don't expect you to acknowledge this because you agree with them.

Yes, it was definitely those awful civil servants. It has nothing whatsoever to do with reality smashing through the fictional Brexiteer fantasy. Not one Brexiteer has yet put forward an alternative and workable plan. Why? Because there isn't one that doesn't trample all over the Good Friday Agreement.
 
So bob you were the one who claimed that you didn't vote because you didn't understand it.... Please don't tar us with the same brush. I knew exactly what I was voting for as did everyone else.
It was clear not only through the media but with the government leaflets that went through all the doors.
Don't confuse peoples voting rights to May's cock up.
Sadly the more you post the more you sound like a remainer trying to pretend you are not.
I didn't vote Ellers as I didn't understand it. You did vote.....did you vote for this though??? Of course I would remain now if I had the chance, I don't deny that. It would be foolish not to. You voted leave, apparently this is leaving so either you didn't understand what leaving entailed or you didn't know what you were voting for.....or the Tories have well and truly ****ed you over ! Have a wee ponder over it fella
 
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Raab and Davis were completely undermined by the snivelling, left wing, pro remain, EU loving civil servants who have steered May to this position.
I don't expect you to acknowledge this because you agree with them.
In that case they are weak bosses, accountability lay with them. How either of them could allow negotiations to get to the point that they were apparently unaware of what had been discussed and agreed is incredible. You are right though that there seems to have been a disconnect between these politicians and the civil servants doing the work. No surprise with Davis, who apparently was stunningly lazy and only turned up for lunch, but I had the impression that Raab was more engaged. Civil servants are there to advise and then implement government policy, whatever is decided. So I definitely don’t agree with them undermining elected ministers, it’s unconstitutional, even though I am a Remainer. Whether they actually undermined ministers I don’t know, I suspect they were working in a leaderless vacuum.
 
Get over it lads. Leave means leave , will of the people bollocks. You've been had!! It meant nothing! I'm not trying to wind you up I'm trying to understand how anyone who thinks they knew any of this prior to the referendum can state they knew what they were voting for.
 
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Raab and Davis were completely undermined by the snivelling, left wing, pro remain, EU loving civil servants who have steered May to this position.
I don't expect you to acknowledge this because you agree with them.
With all due respect aswell mate, that's a load of ****e. This is a Tory mess, they were the ones who called the referendum, implemented it, negotiated it and here we are now.
 
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Apparently McVey got hysterical and shouty in Cabinet, demanding that ministers vote on the deal, which never happens in a Cabinet which operates on the basis of collective responsibility. The Cabinet Secretary (doubtless a snivelling left wing Remainer as a civil servant) had to read to her from the Cabinet Manual, which she should have been familiar with. Why she and Raab didn’t resign on the spot is beyond me, it would have made a more effective and instant statement for them.

On the upside perhaps we will get a more humane and intelligent minister to administer the **** up which is Universal Credit.


Is it now clear to everyone that May’s Red Lines were incoherent and self contradictory? You cannot leave the Customs Union and single market without having a customs border in Ireland or between NI and the rest of the UK. This whole fiasco of a non deal is based on the fallacy that we could have our cake and eat it.
 
With all due respect aswell mate, that's a load of ****e. This is a Tory mess, they were the ones who called the referendum, implemented it, negotiated it and here we are now.

It's not ****e Bob, it's well known that Ollie Robbins has driven us to this point.
You are winding us up Bob so I again, respectfully ask you to stop mate.
I knew what I voted for, the ****s haven't delivered it.
 
Agree it's very patronising. especially when he has said he didn't understand it?

A football forum supporting the mighty hoops is a molecule in the importance of this decision

I seriously cannot understand anyone being fine with a no deal plus have no idea of how to unite the divide post Brexit

Name calling does nothing and I would like to apologise to the forum for my part in that
 
It's not ****e Bob, it's well known that Ollie Robbins has driven us to this point.
You are winding us up Bob so I again, respectfully ask you to stop mate.
I knew what I voted for, the ****s haven't delivered it.
Far from winding you up mate. I don't come on here to do that unlike others. I genuinely tried to look at this from all sides before I realised remaining was the sensible option. My point is, and I say it again, this was never on the paper. Did you think leaving meant this? Did a remain voter think remaining meant this? If the answer is No, then nobody truly knew what they were voting for! Not meant in a condescending or patronising way, just a logical thought process.
 
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