Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The very definition of sovereignty.
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[Politics] Brexit
- Thread starter KingstonSeagull
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The very definition of sovereignty.
Actually I think you'll find we'd have already left if the ERG had voted for the Withdrawal Agreement.
pastafarian
Well-known member
No, a few have been specific that it has been the ERG. You me and class warrior know this simplistic parliamentary arithmetic does not add up. #comingtogether
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
How many members are there in the ERG?
Fine, whatever. The rest of my post stands as correct, doesn’t it?
The government said it would adhere to the result of the referendum - it has never said it would adhere to the results of the indicative votes. Trap avoided
The Government said we would leave with a Deal in place, how does that fit your argument?
pastafarian
Well-known member
Not enough to be the sole cause of the first and second meaningful vote failures
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
pasta - help me out with this one. Nigel Farage - the man of the people who goes to the pub dressed as Rupert The Bear - used to say something like there'd be this 'uprising the like of which this country has never seen before' if whatever it is he wants wasn't delivered because it's a 'betrayal' but like most things with Brexit the actual details were sketchy to say the least.
I'm thinking a couple of thousand people - Free Stephen Yaxley-Lennon protest numbers, who'll probably be there too raging if his probation terms allow it - made of knuckle draggers, oddballs, ex-football hooligans (daytime TV and banning orders permitting if the demo is too close to a ground) greasy haired woman from Essex and Regal cigarette smokers from Barnsley who had to vote for Brexit 'cos ders tooo menee Mooslims'.
Have you got anything a bit more specific though, because you do seem like a really cool, down to earth guy who knows where it's all at?
I agree that was the result of the referndum but no one party won a mandate to deliver it, as such Boris will have to go in search of one via a General election I suspect in September 2019
pastafarian
Well-known member
Government said no deal is better than a bad deal......how does that fit your argument
Eh? If anything you’re supporting my point that the Government says a lot of things!
melias shoes
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pastafarian
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all governments say a lot of things,they always have
How was it a joke? It took the UK out of the EU which is apparently what Brexiters want.
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What don't you like about it ?
No it didn't - you're confusing the leave campaign with the government.
The government said it would adhere to the result of the referendum - it has never said it would adhere to the results of the indicative votes. Trap avoided
But the government cannot make such statements alone, it needs the support of the commons. Only the commons can make such pronouncements. We both know this.
He doesn't like that Leave, in this case, didn't actually mean Leave, even though it did.
Agreed but the commons voted for the triggering of A50 so it backed the governments statement that the result of the referendum would be enacted. There was no such agreement across the commons that the indicative votes would be binding - more like guidance.
The complication for this, of course, is that since then there has been a General Election, and no Parliament can bind it's successors.