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You keep making these polarising posts and using childish, taunting phrases like "virtue signalling". You are provoking people into reacting and thus perpetuating what you claim to be against. And let's face it, economists have a proud tradition of not being able to successfully predict sunrises.
I'm most definitely not a fan of the man - quite the opposite, in fact - but he's doing something that we rather desperately need right now. Not necessarily to force the government to reverse the decision to leave, but to oppose their approach with strong and rational arguments. That's how the checks and balances are supposed to work in a democracy, and it's something we're sorely lacking right now.
I rather strongly believe that only a fool listens to the messenger instead of the message. To do otherwise is to turn politics into a cult of personality, and that's how we lose any semblance of objectivity and common sense.
I so felt for our poor compadres in the US that could only choose between Clinton or Trump..
neither looked like a great choice..
and likewise we could only choose between staying in or leaving… lol…
the parallel is that we were getting to choose between a shite or a turd.. lmao
Yet he's still creaming cash in left, right and centre.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
It's not bullshit if you're a geeky fuck like me who used to work in the field and enjoyed comparing the process of this referendum to that of the Alternative Vote in 2011. It's also not bullshit if you care to read Commons Briefing Paper 07212 issued 3 June 2015 as I've put up here before. I quite agree that lots of people said the result would be accepted and honoured. As the courts have demonstrated, nobody actually had the power or authority to make such a claim.
It's also quite clear that neither side had complete confidence in being successful.
I listened to Blair's speech in the car on the way home and it was really funny; he was stumbling over words, muddling his facts up, simultaneously pleading and being condescending - it nearly brought a tear to my eye.
The public have cast their votes in one of the most democratic polls in living memory and the government is fulfilling its election pledge (upon which it was voted into power) to hold a Referendum and to honour the result.
We don't need conniving war criminals to try and subvert the democratic process. A lot of people did prosper under the Blair regime, but a lot of others were worse off at the end of NuLab than they were when they came into power. (An awful lot of people were dead too, as a result of his vanity, attempting to launch himself as a global politician extraordinaire.)
I listened to Blair's speech in the car on the way home and it was really funny; he was stumbling over words, muddling his facts up, simultaneously pleading and being condescending - it nearly brought a tear to my eye.
The public have cast their votes in one of the most democratic polls in living memory and the government is fulfilling its election pledge (upon which it was voted into power) to hold a Referendum and to honour the result.
We don't need conniving war criminals to try and subvert the democratic process. A lot of people did prosper under the Blair regime, but a lot of others were worse off at the end of NuLab than they were when they came into power. (An awful lot of people were dead too, as a result of his vanity, attempting to launch himself as a global politician extraordinaire.)
....Idiot.
It won't be a democratic poll if there is no opposition - democracy works (in theory) because there is always opposition to ensure that every possible problem is thought through and dealt with.
I don't think anyone really believes we won't be leaving the eu but that doesn't mean it's un-democratic to field an opposition.
It fell to the flip of a coin the margin was so narrow. In any mathematical analysis, that narrow margin means the wrong question was asked or the wrong information provided to get a reasonable answer. Do you think it would be un-democratic for that 48 percent to not oppose the decision that will surely impact on the future of everyone in our country and the eu as a whole?
Big number, but 2 percent swing.
That's a flip of a coin. If it had been two percent the other way, and remain had "won" I don't think our current situation would be any better - the country has no idea (still) what brexit means. There were no plans. Likewise, there were no remain plans, but we'd know that about 50 percent of the country don't want to be a part of it.
We lost either way.
Brown made it worse by carrying on spending after the crisis in 2008. Some moderate cuts then would have helped later, but he was busy trying to buy the 2010 election.
Brexit is is the rowing boat. The EU is the titanic that hit the iceberg. In it's current state the EU is doomed.
Just like Labour supporters have shut up and gone about their lives when the Conservatives are in power? Or like Conservative supporters shut up and gone about their lives when Labour were in power?
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every time they are in power.
with thatcher and major that was 17 years
and it made no difference.
we were still in debt .
they just looted the country and filled their accounts.
nothing changes.
Really?