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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I'll recount my story of the referendum from the perspective of a poll clerk. Of the 400 plus voters who cast ballots during the day, I had one leftie making a comment about never voting Leave because of the UKIP fascists. One sole lunatic from the Remain camp. I had far more spouting racist gibberish on the other side.
The number of people who asked me for pens because they had read online that votes for Leave could be rubbed out: about 30.
The number of people who asked me for pens to vote with at the General Election vote a month earlier: 0.
When that number of people are asking for pens because of some paranoid gibberish, then it's a fairly safe bet that there would have been hell to pay had Remain won by a small margin. Recounts would have been demanded and conspiracy theories would have started.
Farage had already said that a narrow Remain win would mean calls for a second referendum. That fine quote from the Mirror interview went thus "In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.". One line out from the Brexit camp spoken by more than one MP but most audibly by Nadine Dorries was that Remain had to win by 60-40 for the backbenchers to stop shuffling against Cameron.
Can you seriously believe that a narrow Remain win would have seen the Daily Express and Mail conceding defeat? All those backbenchers on both main parties shutting up? No chance.
That's what they do in the Euro parliament!
If the establishment was very much for Remain and could have changed the result that easily...what, you think the slim margin of the result was just an oversight on their part?
j/k
Exports from the UK to the EU: £220 billion.
Exports from the EU to the UK: £290 billion.
It was more a comment on the fact that EU leaders have got sand in their collective vaj's and seem determined to teach us a lesson regardless.
Remember, they are politicians - just like our remain-friendly Blair, and would think nothing of knackering their exports to the UK to give the 'eenglish a bloody nose'
What should happen is exactly the due process which has been started now. The referendum *was* purely advisory, but parliament has been advised, and they have now started to act on it. That is, and always was, the correct process regardless of what some Leavers seem to think. If parliament chooses to amend or reject the proposal to leave because it doesn't add up and they think it's not in the country's best interests, that's what they're elected for. If they choose to pass it because they're reflecting the votes of their constituents, that's *also* what they're elected for. They have to weigh up the conflicting arguments - that's their job and is why we have a parliament. If they pass it, then so be it.
Blair should just keep his nose out. It's true that you should listen to the message and not the messenger, but he's proved so duplicitous in the past that you can't now separate the two completely. If he's in favour of something you have to ask what his angle is.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
UK to EU = 13% of UK GDP
EU to UK = 3% EU GDP
So if it all goes "Pete Tong" the UK has the biggest budgetary hole to fill when measured as % of total GDP.
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Were plenty of valid reasons at the time to believe the vote would be rigged.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/664022/Ukip-postal-voting-fraud-Paul-Nuttall-EU-referendum
That's hardly a single valid reason, much less plenty of them.
Funnily enough, he went very quiet once the result was in, as was entirely predictable.